Author: Germán Estévez
Why do we write applications? One answer could be “for fun”, but not always we are in such a comfortable situation of doing something without a real (business) reason. This is where “Creating Value from Programming” comes in.
Recently we’ve done a joint session with Jeroen Pluimers on the Software Developer Event “Office Stuff!!”…
Author: deepak S1409
Recently, I was exploring writing an ADO SQL logging tool (sorta like BDE monitor) – more details on that later – which would show SQL statements on the screen as they ran. All was well until I figured I needed to be able to see my SQL…
My quotes.txt file
July 29, 2006
Author: Rudy Velthuis
I have often been asked about the quotes I use when writing to the newsgroups. These come from a file called quotes.txt, and are placed under my messages by my news client, XanaNews, by some kind of random process. Although, sometimes the quotes are so…
Showing Download Progress in Delphi SOAP
February 4, 2006
Author: deepak S1409
Download the code for this white paper (dlprogress.zip, 12 KB)
Abstract
This paper talks about how you can show a download “progress” bar (like many download utilities do) when using SOAP to transfer data. I’ve used Delphi 7 in this article, and made some code changes to the source code, so this might not work with any other version of Delphi.
Multiple windows in Delphi
April 26, 2005
Author: deepak S1409
From a recent thread in borland.public.delphi.nativeapi.win32:
There’s a problem in the way Delphi handles multiple open forms. Delphi applications can have multiple forms, and you will notice that each form does not appear on the task bar. Delphi…
The Delphi Eclipse...
February 3, 2005
Author: David O17638
One item in my previous post that I specifically didn’t address is the notion of using Eclipse instead of VS. Again, this is something we’d be remiss to ignore. However, the primary ding against Eclipse is its reliance on a…
Basic Authentication in Delphi 7 SOAP
October 13, 2004
Author: Tóth Erik
Back after a break. It’s been quite a while since I wrote, so I’ll cut to the chase. Question on newsgroups: How do I set username/password for Basic Authentication on SOAP.
Issues: The HTTPRio.HTTPWebNode.UserName and .Password properties are used only in situations where theres a proxy. But let’s assume you wanted to use these for basic authentication.
The Observer Pattern
June 30, 2004
Author: Joanna C1415
Introduction
When we use Delphi to design forms and data modules, every time we place a component on the designer, several things change: the form now shows an appropriate representation of the component, the object inspector changes to show the…
Author: Adailton C38044
The reason there are both Table and Query components is due to the fact there are table-oriented databases like Dbase, Paradox, or Access, and there are set-oriented databases like Interbase, Oracle, and MSSQL. These different types of database…
PopupMode and PopupParent
February 10, 2004
Author: Allen
In VCL.NET (and for those of you paying attention, also in the version of Win32-VCL used in the IDE integration pack for Delphi 8) there is a new property on TCustomForm called PopupMode. This controls how the top-level form behaves with respect to Window’s WS_POPUP style. A window that has the WS_POPUP style will always be above it’s “owner” in…