I have a DirectShow filter created with Delphi Pro 6 and the DSPACK direct show library. I'm running under windows XP. I've tried creating the form dynamically when the container class for the DirectFilter has its constructor called, passing NIL into the constructor as the AOwner parameter (TMyForm.Create(nil) and then calling the Form...
I am using Delphi 2009 which has the FastMM4 memory manager built into it. My program reads in and processes a large dataset. All memory is freed correctly whenever I clear the dataset or exit the program. It has no memory leaks at all. Using the CurrentMemoryUsage routine given in spenwarr's answer to: http://stackoverflow.com/questi...
I have to display in a cxdbGrid column 'Test √', and I got the check mark by using a symbol font but the rest of the characters changed. ...
Is there a way to sort Devexpress QuantumGrid rows on data from a different column other than the one whose header has been clicked? For example, when the header of column A is clicked the rows of the grid are sorted on the data from column B. Visually it should still appear that it is column A that has been sorted as the sort glyphys wi...
Hello, There is already a similar question(link).The thing is I don't understand what unit I have to delete. I have installed the latest JCL library and added 'JclCompression' to the uses list in a unit and I get the error: "Unit JclCompression was compiled with a different version of sevenzip.IOutArchive". Please explain to me in a s...
I have Turbo delphi for .net, and every time that I try to compile a vcl forms application I receive a send/close error message. It has nothing to do with with the applications, because they compile fine in other machines. The error message accuses ntdll.dll. I can compile Windows Forms Application with no problems. ...
Hello all, I'm looking for a Win32 equivalent of the .Net Encoding.GetEncoding Method to be used in Delphi7. What I would like to achieve is to convert a Codepage ID (ie.: 28592) to a Codepage name (iso-8859-2 in this case). I've found a Win32 function called GetCPInfoEx, but that returns a long CodePage name, and I need the short one...
I upgraded my Delphi to 2010 version and I tried to open and run application written in Delphi 2006. The app is using mysql by dbexpress with libmysql.dll and a second driver found somewhere on the Internet. I can't run it on 2010. I'm always getting "missing libmysql.dll library". I tried to get new version of it but it didn't help. C...
Am searching for a CKEditor like component, preferably for delphi 7. Any good free ones out there I could try out? ...
My Delphi program relies heavily on Outlook automation. Outlook versions prior to 2007-SP2 tend to get stuck in memory due to badly written addins and badly written Outlook code. If Outlook is stuck, calling CreateOleObject('Outlook.Application') or GetActiveObject ... doesn't return and keeps my application hanging till Outlook.exe is ...
The background: My form has a TWebBrowser. I want to close the form with ESC but the TWebBrowser eats the keystrokes - so I decided to go with a keyboard hook. The problem is that the Form can be open in multiple instances at the same time. No matter what I do, in some situations, if there are two instances open of my form, closing one...
Hi, I am using Dialog 2010 and Windows 7. When I invoke TTaskDialog.Execute method, there is a short flash of screen cursor change to hour glass. Is there any way to get rid of it? As it doesn't have much meaning for a simple task dialog but causing some delay to wait for the dialog prompt out. ...
I need to get the name of the program currently associated with a file extension for the current user. If you right-click on a file and select properties, then what I need is the program name that is to the right of the "Opens with" line. e.g. For ".xls", I want to be able to get the answer "Microsoft Office Excel", or whatever program...
Hello! I have been receiving reports from some of my users that, when using idFTP.List() from some servers (MS FTP) then the listing is received as empty (no files) when in reality there are (non-hidden) files on the current directory. May this be a case of a missing parser? The funny think, when I use the program to get the list from M...
CreateProcess() returns false when the commandline contains a path.I don't understand why. Here I simplified the operation: function ExecProcess(path:string):boolean; var StartupInfo:TstartupInfo; ProcInfo:TProcessInformation; begin FillChar( StartupInfo, SizeOf( TStartupInfo ), 0 ); StartupInfo.cb := SizeOf( TStartupInfo ); ...
Hello, In my app, i've created the TList type list where i store the pointers to 1 string and 2 float(real) values for every 3 items. aList.Add(@sName); //string aList.Add(@x1); //float aList.Add(@x2); //float Then, i want to get the values out from the list, but i could only do that for string sStr := string(lList.items[i]); But ...
I'm using RAD 2010 on windows 7 and all visual components looks normal (Edit, DBCombobox, for example) but the dblookupcombobox has the same border theme from Windows XP. I can't find how make it's looks like the other components. Anyone has any idea of how i can make this? Thanks PS: Sorry by the bad english. ...
I have created a Delphi Service which prints TQuickReports. Everything works fine if compiled and run as a Windows Application. But when converted to operate as a service trying to create a form containing a TQuickRep component throws the exception. This service runs fine on many other boxes but not this one in particular. Here are s...
Are there any wide-string manipulation implementations out there? function WideUpperCase(const S: WideString): WideString; function WidePos(Substr: WideString; S: WideString): Integer; function StringReplaceW(const S, OldPattern, NewPattern: WideString; Flags: TReplaceFlags): WideString; etc ...
You know how in Firefox, if something happens that requires your attention but isn't immediately urgent enough to require a modal dialog, it will drop down a little strip at the top of the tab with a question on it? I'd like to be able to put functionality like that in a Delphi app, but I don't know if there's a component for that. Doe...