Delphi Tips
This section of the site contains 169 useful Delphi related hints and tips. Choose or search for a tip below.
- A general purpose Base64 decoding routine using Indy
- Adding component help to Delphi
- Animate tray application windows as they open and close
- Animate windows as they are opened and closed
- Auto-resizing and centring forms on screen
- Boyer-Moore-Horspool text searching
- Calling CreateProcess() the easy way
- Check if an HTML element is displayed
- Check that a HTML document has completely loaded
- Communicate between processes using windows messaging
- Communicate with Windows Program Manager using DDE
- Convert between long and short file names
- Delete files with the ability to undo or recycle
- Detect if an application has stopped responding
- Different ways of executing applications and files from Delphi
- Display the Browse for Folder dialog box
- Drawing disabled text
- Drawing outlined text
- Drawing rotated text
- Encrypt and decrypt functions
- Execute a DOS command and capture the output
- Execute a program and wait until it is done
- Extract keywords from an HTML document
- Fast string file searching
- File Open/Save Common Dialog Control IDs
- Find the position of the text cursor in a memo control
- Find the taskbar and system tray window handles
- Finding HTML elements by ID in a TWebBrowser document
- Force a TEdit to accept only numeric input
- Get the network computer and domain names
- Getting and setting the user and system environment variables
- How can I add my own custom menu item to another application?
- How to access the Registry using Windows API
- How to add a context menu item to Windows Explorer
- How to add an OnMouseDown event to a TPopupMenu
- How to add text completion capability to a TComboBox
- How to adjust RGB values using TTrackBars
- How to blend two pf24bit images using ScanLine
- How to block input to the system until released
- How to call CopyFileEx and let the callback update a progress bar
- How to call Internet Explorer from Delphi
- How to centre text in a TEdit
- How to centre text in a TEdit (alternative approach)
- How to change the corner size of RoundRect
- How to change the drag cursor image when dragging in a TTreeView
- How to check if a key is pressed
- How to check if a string is a number
- How to check if a TTreeView is fully expanded or collapsed
- How to check if the BDE is installed
- How to compare two pf24bit images
- How to control the scroll buffer of a TMemo
- How to convert a *.bmp file to a *.jpg file
- How to convert an integer value to a Roman Numeral representation
- How to convert Delphi forms from binary to text and vice versa
- How to convert hex colour values into Delphi formatted ones
- How to convert TDateTime to a UNIX timestamp and vice versa
- How to copy data between TWebBrowsers
- How to copy multiple files into one
- How to create a borderless TComboBox
- How to create a brush using CreateBrushIndirect
- How to create a non-rectangular TPanel
- How to create a pie chart
- How to create a resizable TPanel with a size grip
- How to create a TCheckBox with a transparent caption
- How to create a TComboBox with incremental search capabilities
- How to create a TEdit that accepts only numeric input
- How to create a TGroupBox with a checkbox that disables / enables all contained controls when checked
- How to create a TListBox that is resizable at runtime
- How to create a TListBox with Drag and Drop capabilities
- How to create a TMemo with alternating colours to paint the lines
- How to create a TScrollBar with a background bitmap
- How to create a TScrollBox with its own background
- How to create a TTreeView with a three state checkbox
- How to create a TTreeView without scrollbars
- How to create components with a transparent background
- How to create gradient colour schemes
- How to create multiline hints
- How to create non-hiding hints
- How to define a minimum size for a component
- How to delete files with wildcards
- How to delete lines from a text file
- How to detach and re-attach an event
- How to detect text and font size changes
- How to determine the screen resolution
- How to determine the track of the current CD
- How to disable form movement using the mouse
- How to draw dotted or dashed lines using a pen with a width greater than 1
- How to empty a TImage
- How to enable scrollbars at design time
- How to expand a TMemo while keying in
- How to extract the title of an HTML document
- How to flash the taskbar
- How to generate a circle through three points
- How to generate a temporary file name
- How to get a screen shot of a control
- How to get data from a file without reading it into memory
- How to get the physical caret position in a TMemo, TEdit or TRichEdit
- How to get the RGB value of a pixel under the mouse cursor
- How to get the size of a file
- How to get the size of a text file without opening it
- How to get the system's colour palette
- How to have a form that never activates
- How to implement a 'Lasso'
- How to implement a multi-line caption on a TButton
- How to implement an OnMouseDown event for the buttons of a TRadioGroup
- How to implement autocompletion in a TEdit
- How to implement drag and drop at design time
- How to know if the mouse has entered the component area
- How to make a child form listen to broadcasted messages
- How to make a TCollectionItem contain a TCollection
- How to mix or separate three color channels
- How to paste files from Windows Explorer into your application
- How to perform a Shell Sort
- How to prevent a TListView from displaying tool tips for long items
- How to prevent a TWebBrowser from displaying a document's background
- How to print text and text files in Delphi
- How to programmatically make your programs run on Windows startup
- How to read bitmap file information
- How to read image pixels fast
- How to read the installed ADO version
- How to read Unicode text files
- How to read very large text files fast
- How to reduce the number of Set methods in a component
- How to refresh file icons
- How to register a global hotkey
- How to replace text in a Word document
- How to resize a *.jpg image and save the result to a file
- How to resize a TPanel at runtime
- How to resolve a host name
- How to retrieve rich text from a resource file and save it to disk
- How to save and load printer settings to / from the registry
- How to save and restore font selections to a text file
- How to save several TBitmaps into one file
- How to save the canvas of a TPaintBox to a .bmp file
- How to search for a pattern in a file
- How to send a message to a specific control on a TForm
- How to set boundaries for newly created controls
- How to snap a window to the screen edge
- How to tell Netscape Navigator which web pages to load from your Delphi program
- How to trap the ALT key state in a visual component
- How to turn numlock on by code
- How to use a function or a procedure as a parameter to another function
- How to use a scroll event in a TListBox
- How to use a TControlCanvas in a component
- How to use the alpha transparency features included in Windows 2000 and later
- How to write a list of strings to the registry
- Incremental search of list box
- Inserting RTF code into a rich edit control
- Install components and IDE extensions into the Delphi IDE
- Making LMD buttons work when clicked
- Merging files
- Message box that works with a Delphi Service Application
- Move the mouse cursor from code
- Open documents and URLs in their associated applications
- Prevent flicker on graphics controls
- Prevent system sleep
- Print any type of document using Delphi
- Programatically log users off
- Reading and writing INI files
- Remove recently opened projects from the CodeGear RAD Studio IDE welcome page
- Right align main menu items
- Scanning MS Office documents using the MS Anti-virus API
- Search for help
- Serialize application settings
- Solution for problem with auto update feature in Rad Studio 2010 and Win Vista/7 UAC
- Triggering default menu items from code
- Using the TStrings.ValueFromIndex property
- When was that file last accessed?
- Which COM objects to use?
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