I use Beyond Compare (a great program), and was very impressed when it displayed a "New Version Available" label on its Menu Bar. I clicked on it, up popped an install new version box, it installed, the program restarted itself and there was the new version and no more label. I thought that was a great feature. The label is there promin...
I'm trying to use the Action Manager and Action Main Menu Bar in Delphi 2010 an I have no idea how to make this work. I've tried looking at the examples that come with Delphi 2010 and I can't seem to figure this out. I've tried playing around with the examples. I've been able to add an image to the Image List component and set that ite...
I am trying to find a way to use Open Cascade(www.opencascade.org) - 3D Modeling Technology in one of our software which is written in Delphi. I did manage top find an ActiveX which supports Open Cascade, but on trying it I did not like the visual quality of rendered images. The ActiveX lib can be found here (www.ewcad.com). I am not ...
Hello, I'm looking for a non visual persistent tree (TStringTree) implementation. If someone known any good implentation of it, please let me know. Thanks. ...
Hello, anyone knows a component that descends from TImageList and support PNG images, and compatible with Delphi 7. Thanks in advance. Bye. ...
When showing a secondary form from the main form and from the second form showing a third form and then closing both forms will cause the main form to lose focus. Using Delphi 2009 with XP SP3 Here are my steps for reproducing the problem: Create a new VCL forms applications Drag a button onto the created form In the click handler cr...
I wish to get a TPanel or TImage to show a dimmed background (with a veil), anyone knows how to accomplish this in Delphi (2010)? I would prefer not to use a component if possible, just raw code. The idea is that when showing a new form the parent one visually shows the user it's "disabled". Something like this: ...
Hi, I use TMemo to display long strings. I was very surprised that method : Memo1.loadfromfile('mem.txt') [mem.txt = 111 kB] took about 35 seconds, what is really really long time. How can I make TMemo load strings in real time? thanx ...
Hi, Simple task: I would like to make a program (parent.exe). There are three buttons. When I click Button1, Form1 appears; when Button 2, Form2 appears; when Button3, Form3 appears... Form1, Form2, Form3 are stored in three different dlls (Form1dll.dll, Form2dll.dll, Form3dll.dll). I wanted to make parent program (parent.exe) run mo...
I'm looking for a VCL component for C++ builder. It should preferably have a toolbar with drag & drop functionality. I want to define a building or area (which might not be rectangular) and split it into "rooms" (or areas, or whatever you want to call them). And I want to be able to put "doorways" (or passages, etc) from a room into its...
I am currently developing new features for an existing VCL application. The application creates charts and static images using a thirdparty package called TeeChart. There is one instance where I have to load in 2 million data points to create a static image chart. However, this takes a while to load and the user can't do anything in the ...
Title says it all. Sometimes I want L-shaped, T-shaped, triangular, polygonal ... Free reusable component please . . . ...
Does anyone know of password strength meter component for delphi Win32? Important : must be for a Win32 Form, not for Web. something like that (but for Win32) ...
I want to add a published property into TWinControl. Is there someway to do this without the necessity of recompiling the base source code ? If not, some way to recompile the base source code without too much troubles ? Tks in advice... EDIT 'CAUSE OF NEW IDEAS Alright, What I'm thinking to do I'm trying to override the _GetMem from...
I am just getting back into C++ Bulder after several years. What's currently the best web-site for free VCL components? ...
I have a DLL that's written in C++Builder (2006), and I'm invoking a single function in the DLL from a .NET application. The problem is, when I close the .NET application (and the DLL gets detached from it) I get a CodeGuard error saying that it detected resource leaks (and I see the leaks in the CodeGuard log file). I also see the Loa...
I can go the long way round, loop over each row, get a TRect from CellRect(col, row), then query its State for gdSelected ... But isn't there a quicker way to get the row number of the currently selected row, if any? ...
C++Builder ADOQuery SQLServer Continue of This questions line using this select with procedure : SELECT C.Hint, CAST(CASE WHEN T2.ID_Param IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END as bit) AS Visi FROM CfgListParIzm C LEFT JOIN ( SELECT T.ID_Param FROM TbUserParam T WHERE T.ID_User = @ID_Use...
Trying to write a simple VCL program for educating purposes (dynamicly created forms, controls etc). Have such a sample code: void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender) { TForm* formQuiz = new TForm(this); formQuiz->BorderIcons = TBorderIcons() << biSystemMenu >> biMinimize >> biMaximize; formQuiz->Position = TPos...
Just need to set the lbl.caption (inside a loop) but the problem is bigger than i thought. I've tried even with vector of wstrings but there is no such thing. I've read some pages, tried some functions like WideString(), UnicodeString(), i know i can't and shouldn't turn off Unicode in C++Builder 2010. std::vector <std::string> myStrin...