I'm working on a program designed to draw numeric summary information out of a database. The user can select four criteria via dropdown combo boxes, and the information is displayed in a string grid...

If this is in the wrong place, I apologize. I use ShellExecute only in Delphi, but I am aware that it may not be properly considered part of the language.

I have a program that is supposed to...

I'm working on a Delphi program designed for use with an Access database. In addition to the onscreen output, however, my boss wants me to provide PHP reports for it as well. We have PHP installed...

I am working with a delphi form that appears to have a rather interesting problem. I am developing on a laptop sitting at 1920X1200 resolution. On my form, I have a trio of components. One is...

I've been asked to look into a project with a TcxMaskEdit component that's throwing some problems. The main one is this:

The user is expected to hit tab to move between fields. The TcxMaskEdit in...

Does anyone know of a good site or doc that describes the ways to use a TStringGrid? I'm trying to figure out how to right-justify some of the items that are going to be placed into a TStringGrid,...

I'm supposed to be writing a program to pick up files left in an ftp server directory. I have ftp access to the directory, and I have a copy of the Indy pack components installed on my system. ...

I am trying to build a program for ftp transmission purposes. I have been requested to use another program written by my predecessor as a model.

At one point, my predecessor's code makes...

I'm trying to figure out how to send files via FTP in Delphi. A program written by my predecessor makes use of the Indy package IdFTP component, but I'm having some trouble figuring out how to use...

I know that most Delphi components have an 'on mouseover' event that activates when you move the mouse over the component. Are there any text-box style components with a 'mouse-hover' ability, where...

The original program I'm writing is slated to be run on WindowsXP boxes and interface with the linux-based server boxes.

I finally found a solution to my own problem by negation...I dropped a...

Thank you for your assistance, but I found a sort of kludgy way around the problem. I set a button to attempt to reopen the file, then to catch the error if the file doesn't exist and spit out a...

I am working on a program designed to map a networked drive to a Linux Samba share. I have been requested to give the end users a way to select what drive they want to map. I know that some drives...

I've been working on a program designed to allow the end user to offer data corrections back to my company. (That is, they send us the originals, we process those and store it in a database, and...

I am working on a program in Delphi which is intended to call up a php file on a server, with the output of the php file being dependant on the information the user enters into the Delphi form. I...

I am attempting to write a program that expects the value of a specific field to be a five-digit zip code. Logically, this should be a completely numeric value, but as I'm using a text field, it is...

Is there any way to insert an animated .gif image into a Delphi form? The image component only seems to accept jpeg, bitmap, and icon files, plus a couple I've never seen before, but it's my...

I'm trying to figure out how to change the font in part of a large text field in delphi. (At the moment, I'm working with a RichEdit field.) I know it's possible to set the font style for the...

When calling the date function, or referencing database information from a 'date' field, is it possible to specify what format the date will be returned as? Windows has at least seven formats that I...

Worked like a charm. Thank you very much for your quick assistance.

I'm currently trying to create a program in delphi to call up a webpage; the page is written in php and records some data about its contents for record-keeping in my system. I'd like to be able to...

Thanks. That did the trick.

Does Delphi have any way to escape symbols embedded in strings? I'm trying to write a database project, and have just run into a rather nasty problem; the db I'm working with, PostgreSQL, refuses to...