Recent content by JerryAttrick

As a beginner myself I agree with all the other advice and add my own thoughts: one of the first things I did was download "Marco Cantu's Essential Delphi" at www.marcocantu.com/edelphi. I printed it all out, had it spiral bound and refer to it often. I also get a lot of benefit from...

Thanks very much for your reply. Just on the off chance I loaded Delphi6, clicked on the Active X tab and placed an 'F1Book' component on the form. It's wonderful - it really looks like a spreadsheet. Now I have to find out how to put data in (probably very straightforward) and extract data...

I've never created a component, but if it can be done in ‘image editor’ then standard icon free programs would be better (image editor is very restricted in use). I use ‘PixelToolbox’ (free download) and 'Iconomaker' (15 day free trial). I find the standard Windows 32 x 32 icon works fine for...

I’ve completed a Delphi project whilst using a desktop running XP. When I run the 'exe' file on a Win98 Laptop the form size and components come out slightly different sizes, thus allowing a peep at the edge of text intended to be hidden at that stage. Can I combat these subtle changes...

I have an Excel project using table data selected with VlookUp and wish to emulate that program with a Delphi version stand-alone executable file. I’m using Delphi 6 free edition (no database components). 1. I looked first at arrays; my columnar data is mixed so no good. Also too clumsy to...

Thanks BobbaFET. Since writing the plea for help I got b****y-minded and tried changing every setting in the Properties section in Object Inspector. I found the trick is to change the ‘ParentColor’ back to TRUE. If you ever change the background colour of a label to be different to the...

Part of a project has labels in a GroupBox. Originally if I changed the GroupBox colour then the label background colour matched the box. The same was true when I changed back. Recently I’ve been experimenting with changing colours. After my tinkering, if I change the GroupBox background...

My word it certainly does help! It's magic! Thank you so much. Instinctively I thought there was a simple answer, and this certainly is as simple as they come. Bravo . . . . and it works too!!! Sincerely, Jerry PS I had a bit of a search b4 this posting, and was sufficiently panicked by...

I have a simple application where I would like to report the date the application was previously used and who used it, when the CreateForm event occurs. Date seems easy, but how can I find out the current user name to store in the *.ini file for next time? It's obviously silly for each user to...

With assistance from subscribers to this forum, plus researching various web sites, I’ve designed an application that does what I want (well 98% of what I want!). Now I’m trying to add a help menu with zero success. I run a free version of Delphi6. The Delphi User Guide I have is little use...

I have now stumbled across the icon editor 'PixelToolbox' at http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/gmm/fwicontools.html and it is Freeware. After playing for an hour it appears to be easy to drive and will accept jpg files, turn them into icons and allow one to save as an .ico format file. Also it...

Clive, Those Image Editor colours are terrible! But I can't find any other way of generating my own icon. PaintShop Pro 8 doesn't suport *.ico format, and neither does MS 'Paint'. Jerry

There's nothing wrong with your English, Giovanni. I understand your meaning, and the option to alter the form at run time, based on criteria like who the user is, or whether the person opts for more complex output etc. is a very good idea. I'll use that in the application I'm working on...

‘bsDialog’ certainly locks the size of the window. Unfortunately the menu disappears also. At the same time the Minimise and Maximise buttons disappear as well, but that’s a plus for me in this instance. I find that ‘bsToolWindow’ setting has very nearly the effect I’m looking for except that...

I’m using Delphi 6 free edition. In the left on the top bar of the application window is an icon followed by the application name (the current Delphi icon shown is a large letter ‘I’ with a small globe). How can I change that Delphi icon to one of my own which has more relevance to the...