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Understanding and Processing Keyboard events in Delphi

in Delphi Language :: Get familiar with the OnKeyDown, OnKeyUp, and onKeyPress Delphi event procedures to respond to various key actions or handle and process ASCII characters along with other special...

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Understanding Owner Drawing in Delphi

in Advanced Delphi :: I guess we all like the idea of graphics displayed in the "Start" menu of Windows XX. Have you ever wondered is it possible to do custom control drawing with Delphi? Here comes...

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Intercepting Keyboard Input with Delphi - Implementing a Keyboard Hook

in Advanced Delphi :: Consider for a moment creation of some fast arcade game. All the graphics is displayed, let's say, in a TPainBox. TPaintBox is unable to receive the input focus - no events are...

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Have a Delphi Function Return Multiple Results / Values

in For Beginners :: A return value from a function is defined by the return type. I guess that in most cases you would write a function to return a single value that would be an integer, string,...

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Custom Drawing a TComboBox: Color Pick List, Font Pick List

in using VCL :: As with menus (menu items), an application can create an owner-drawn combo box to take responsibility for painting list items. An owner-drawn combo box can list/show information other...

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Listening to the Clipboard: Delphi Clipboard Spy with Custom Clipboard Formats

in Advanced Delphi :: Clipboard stores information in multiple formats so we can transfer data between applications that use different formats. When reading information from the clipboard with Delphi's...

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Speed and Size: Top 10 Delphi Programming Tricks

LANGUAGE TIPS :: In many case the Delphi compiler will take care of the optimization. But that's just limited to aligning the code for pipelines, and some other small tweaks to the code. There is still...

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Reverse Engineering (Decompiling) Delphi Applications

in Advanced Delphi :: Simply speaking, decompilation is the inverse of compilation: translating an executable file into a higher level language. Suppose you lose your Delphi project's source and you...

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Delphi Programming Almanacs: 1998. - 2012. Something for Every Delphi...

in Delphi Almanacs :: According to Wikipedia, an almanac is an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields often arranged according to the calendar. A Delphi...

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Signing Off. So Long, and Thanks for All The Good Times!

Dear delphi.about.com web site visitors, readers and friends who followed my work as the Delphi Programming Guide for the About.com network, the time has come for me to move on to new endeavours.After...

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