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Filtering data is something we all do. Whether it’s a grid, a dataset, or a list of objects—at some point, users want to narrow things down. In Delphi, the most common starting point is still the Filter property on a TDataSet. ...

Introduction The parameter identifier is specified through the controls href tag in the anchor formatting. This takes the format of : <A href="param identifier">param value</A> Multiple parameter identifiers can be used in the control b...

Introduction: “Friends don't let friends use OLE Automation” Before starting I would like to warn that this article is mostly about my personal views and opinions. While all articles are subjective and influenced by what the writer is thinking, it i...

Effectively using the PictureContainer component The PictureContainer makes it easy to use and embed JPEG, GIF, ICO, BMP and WMF images in your applications from the IDE without needing to resort to resource files. Note that the PictureContainer ...

The mini HTML implementation to display text with HTML tags in various TMS components is a subset of the HTML standard and supports following tags: B : Bold tag <B> : start bold text </B> : end bold text Example : This...

In some cases it is not desirable and even annoying that a menu immediately disappears when a selection is made. To address such situations, the new component TAdvStickyPopupMenu was created. The TAdvStickyPopupMenu component was modelled aft...

The Office 2007 ribbon GUI has sophisticated capabilities to resize controls depending on the size of the window & its toolbars. A button can have 3 different size states: glyph size (bsGlyph size) label size (bsLabel size) large size (b...

Introduction An eye-catching feature of the new Office 2007 environment is the round button that sits in the top right corner of the window from where a menu can be shown that resembles the old File menu. What makes this menu a little diffe...

Introduction In article 5, we've introduced the basic API to use the new Vista TaskDialog from Delphi. The basic API however only allows to do marginally more than the good old MessageBox. To get more out of the new TaskDialog, Vista exposes the ...

Introduction In Windows Vista the common File Open and File Save dialogs have got a facelift as well. Unfortunately, Microsoft didn't make the new common file dialogs 100% backwards compatible with the existing GetOpenFileName, GetSaveFileName A...

Introduction Windows Vista introduces a new dialog to communicate with the user, called TaskDialog. In its most simple form, a TaskDialog is just a nicer looking MessageBox equivalent with options to customize the title and to add a description an...