I am trying to extend a 3rd party application so that it can be invoked via command line in addition to using the windows form GUI (mixed mode is desired). It's a fairly simple program which ...

Debug breakpoints work fine in all other 38 units of my system, but in my DataModule, that has ~10.000 lines, Delphi disables them after I launch by F9/F8/F7. In any part of source that unit, even on ...

I have a project that have a main form as mdichild with a menu. Each item of that menu create a mdichild form. In that main form i have components, like panel, stringgrid etc The problem is: when that ...

Goal: Try to get Camera enumeration and image capture to work with a Delphi program. This means the need to use COM classes from the 2 DLLs: mf.dll and mfplat.dll, since Microsoft implemented Media ...

In designtime I use a second panel inside of another panel to be as a header. What I want is when user press mouse button inside the second panel both are moved and for that I use this in OnMouseDown ...

How to extract frames from a gif using GifImage 2.X which does not have TGifRenderer? This is how I try but the frames are incomplete (half empty): Gif := TGifImage.Create; Gif.LoadFromFile('...

Here's a condensed version of some code that causes both a Range check error and an overflow error, should I turn on those compiler check directives. I understand why this would cause an overflow, on ...

I have upgraded an old project from Delphi 7 to Delphi XE. The project has (among others) some THotKey controls. Under Delphi 7 the THotKey controls are working ok. But under Delphi XE they are like ...

I am a Turbo pascal/Borland pascal/Delphi developer, since 1987. I currently only use Delphi for maintaining old tools that I (and some friends of mine) use privately. Unfortunately all my ...

I have delphi7 code that change application title currently running (other application, not my application). procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var MyHandle: THandle; begin MyHandle:=...

Are the {} and // both for adding comments depending on size? Sorry for the silly question, but when ever I try and google "{} // Delphi" I get links to Delphi.com and Wikipidia for random ...

I am using Delphi 7. I am new to DUnit, my doubt is what kind of test cases I can write using DUnit and how (that is very important for me). Is it possible to write test cases for a particular ...

Is there any way to know the name of a method I'm currently in? So that: procedure TMyObject.SomeMethod(); begin Writeln('my name is: ' + <hocus pocus>); end; would produce this output: my ...

Delphi 7 has decided that it no longer want to cooperate. I was working on a relatively small project and was all but finished, but as I chose an icon for the exe-file the program threw this error: ...

I want to create a component creator program, and so i want to have a combobox with default delphi 7 components, and that it branches into the properties that belong to the selected component in the ...