Showing posts with label source-code. Show all posts
Showing posts with label source-code. Show all posts
Monday, January 1, 2024

How to open URLs with default applications in macOS and Windows

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 I'm currently updating an old Delphi 5 Desktop VCL application to to Delphi 11.3 FMX. And one of the capabilities I want to provide is ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

Delphi Tip of the Day: Use Your Own Unique Prefix for Types and Constants

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I'm in the process of converting an old Delphi 5 VCL application to Delphi 11 FMX. Yeah, I have Delphi 12 but I'm waiting for the fi...
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Saturday, March 21, 2020

Delphi Tip of the Day - OnShow SetFocus or Form1.ActiveControl

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I'm creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: A...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

The 20-Second Hug

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program TwentySecondHug; {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} {$R *.res} uses System.SysUtils; begin try Writeln('The 20-Second Hug'); ...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

A Better Way to Present and Organize Error Messages in Your Delphi Applications

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I'm in the process of totally redesigning an application I wrote 25 years ago. Today, I decided to look for a better way to present erro...
Sunday, December 28, 2014

How to Display Menu Item Hints in Delphi Applications (Revisited)

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Last week I decided I wanted the main menu hints and popup menu hints to display in a tooltip window just like the hints for all the other c...
Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Raize Components Makes Id/Value Pair Logic A Breeze

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I have known about Raize Components for a long time. The buzz I've always heard was something like this... " Oh yeah, Raize is good...
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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Rounding the Currency type like they taught us in school

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I started using Delphi's Currency type for it's accuracy only to discover it doesn't round the way I would have expected it to r...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Plan Ahead When It Comes To FireMonkey & iOS

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I don't intend to move to XE2 or XE(next) anytime soon, I have my hands full just porting over my old applications from D5 to D2010. How...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Keeping Screen Resolution in Mind

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I'm redoing an old Delph 5 app that forced a screen resolution of 640 x 480 on the users. At the time this application was deveopled tha...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

ElevateDB: Function isDate()

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I am without a doubt spoiled by some of Microsoft SQL Server's built in functions. One such built in function that I have used many time...
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

ElevatdDB: Date Math 2

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Let me start off by mentioning a couple things. I'm not an expert at ElevateDB by any means and I don't claim to be one either. I pu...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

ElevateDB: Date Math 1

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ElevateDB has just impressed me again the way it handles date math. I don't know if you have ever tried doing SQL Date Math but it can b...