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Trying to Modify an Original Program

Question: I commissioned a program that was written in Delphi. I am not a programmer, but an excellent hacker. Is there any way I can get into this program to

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Shared Database Session

Question: Is there a way to share a database session between calling application and DLL? Not having such a sharing (DLL with DataSet components) increases the number of SQL server

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Fixed-Width Tables in IE5

Internet Explorer version 5 has significantly better HTML table support than previous versions. Up until now, HTML writers have had to rely on trial and error to make tables render

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A Runnable Is Not a Thread

You may come across some situations where implementing a Runnable may have some advantages over extending Thread. If the class you are going to multi-thread is already extending another class,

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Declaring Variables Inside an If-Condition

C++ allows you to declare variables just before their use rather than at the top of the enclosing block. Thus, it is legal to declare a variable inside the condition

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Load a Text File Into a Memo

Question: How do I read a file on the A: drive into my program and then display the contents into an edit box? Answer: I’m not sure you’d want to

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Different Versions of Delphi and the BDE

Question: Is it possible to have two different versions of the Borland Database Engine (BDE) installed on the same machine? I’ve been developing in Delphi 3, recently went to Delphi