I am having trouble with the delimiter in the TStringList Class. Take a look: var s: string; sl: TStringList; begin sl := TStringList.Create; s := 'Users^foo bar^bar foo^foobar^barfoo'; sl....

I'm wondering how the few Delphi Programming users here are doing unit testing, if any? Is there anything that integrates with the Delphi IDE that you've found works well? If not, what tools are you ...

in MS Sql there are data types that are not supported by delphi 7, the xml datatype is one example. I wish to convert the XML datatype to Text datatype, so that i could handle it in delphi. Is ...

I just ran into an annoying problem. Suddenly Avira AntiVir started to flag one executable from my software as being a virus. As the default action from almost any user is to click OK and Avira ...

Our company have a software that has been in development for over 10 years, so there are some really dated stuff in there. It's still quite functional and everything, but I see the new features on ...

Setting a form to WindowState = wsMaximized will sometimes cause the form to be maximized but not: Long-time bug: this is a question I first asked in the Borland newsgroups in 2003: Accepted fix for ...

I'd like to automatically checkout a file when I start to edit it in Delphi 7 IDE. ClearCase is my version control system and I really hate the need to checkout a file before starting to edit. It ...

String content = "Jane"; String container = 'A.Sven,G.Jane,Jack'; // This is the string which i need to be searched with string content boolean containerContainsContent = StringUtils....

I'm working with Delphi 7 and Strings, and I came across this: For a string of default length, that is, declared simply as string, max size is always 255. A ShortString is never allowed to grow to ...

My application is based on modal forms. Main form opens one form with ShowModal, this form opens another with ShowModal, so we have stacked modal forms. There is sometimes a problem that when we call ...

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 ...

If I try to run Delphi 7, I get this frightening message: Register Delphi Borland license information was found, but it is not valid for Delphi. You can not run Delphi without this information. Click ...

I noticed the following phenomenon: An executable built with Delphi 7 and part of the name including "Update" (e.g. "UpdateMyApp.exe") causes UAC to step in to display a warning like "do you want to ...

I have a question (or more likely a bug report) about bit shifting behavior in Delphi (tested in Borland Delphi 7). Target: perform an "Arithmetic" bitwise shift right with any number. This means ...

I think theres no native support to gif animated images. How is the best way? any free component that allow that? I was thinking in using a TImage and a ImageList + Timer, but I need to export each ...