Are we connected to the Internet? Here's how to check whether you are connected to the Internet procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject) ; function FuncAvail(_dllname, _funcname: string; var _p: pointer): boolean; {return True if _funcname exists in _dllname} var... |
Download a file from the Internet with progress indicator If you need to save the contents of a specified URL to a file - and be able to track the download progress, use the TDownLoadURL Delphi action While TDownLoadURL is writing to the specified file, it periodically generates an OnDownloadProgress event, so th... |
Extracting the domain (host) name from an e-mail address If you have an email as a string value and want to extract only the domain (host) name from it, like in: "delphi.guide@about.com" - domain name = "about.com", you can use the next function: |
How to get get IE favorites The GetIEFavourites function called from the OnClick event of a button returns a list of all the favorites from your Internet Explorer in a ListBox. function GetIEFavourites (const favpath: string):TStrings; var searchrec:TSearchrec; str:TStr... |
How to set the "home page" for the Internet Explorer from Delphi code Here's how to change the home page for the IE from Delphi code (IE-Tools-Internet options...) uses Registry; ... function SetIEHomePage(PageName: string): Boolean; begin with TRegistry.Create do try RootKey := HKEY_CURRENT_USER;... |
List All Network Drives To show a list of all mapped network drives, use the GetNetworkDriveMappings function. Example usage: GetNetworkDriveMappings(Memo1.Lines) ; function GetNetworkDriveMappings (SList: TStrings): integer; var c: Char; ThePath: string; Max... |
Retrieving all image links from an HTML document Here's how to obtain all image links from an HTML document. The GetImageLinks procedure fills a TStrings object with the value of the SRC property of the IMG HTML element. Note: if the images have relative links, you will have to parse the document url and... |
Does my CD-ROM drive contain an audio CD? We can use the Windows API function GetDriveType() to test if the drive is a CD-ROM drive then use the Windows API function GetVolumeInformation() to test if the VolumeName is 'Audio CD'.function IsAudioCD(Drive : char) : bool;var DrivePath : s... |
Convert a mapped drive to a full UNC path Universal/Uniform Naming Convention. A UNC path describes the location of a volume, directory, or file.The format for a UNC path is \servervolumedirectoryfile and is not case-sensitive. For example: \Shared1_svrShared1WGroupsNetworkOrders.xlsR... |
Checking If File Is In Use IsFileInUse will return true if the file is locked for exclusive access. It would fail if the file doesn't exist at all. function IsFileInUse(fName : string) : boolean;var HFileRes : HFILE;begin Result := false; if no... |
Browse for Computers, Folders, Files and Printers By using the SHBrowseForFolder Windows API function and Delphi we can invoke a Windows system dialog used to browse for files and folders on users hard drive as well as network computers and printers. First, let's look at what SHBrowseForFolder needs. Here... |
How to draw Transparent Text on bitmap You can set transparent mode by calling SetBkMode function.procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);begin with Image1.Picture.Bitmap.Canvas do begin Font.Color := clBlue; Brush.Style := bsclear;  ... |
How Do I Remove The Application Icon From The Taskbar? To remove the icon from the taskbar, you need to call a Windows API call:BOOL ShowWindow(HWND hwnd,int nCmdShow);Delphi makes it very easy to use this command. All you need to do is supply the Application.handle and SW_HIDE to remove the icon from the task... |
How To Show The Print Dialog And Print Text Files This code show an example of how to print a text of a RichEdit component.unit Unit1; interface uses Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms, Dialogs, StdCtrls, ComCtrls; type TForm1 = class(TForm) ... |
How To Make An Animated Application Icon Show how to create an animated icon in your programvar icon1:Boolean; ... procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); begin if icon1=false then begin Application.icon:=Image1.Picture.Icon; icon1:=tru... |
How To Pass The Focus To The Next/prior Control Shows how to activate the next or prior control in a formnext control: SendMessage(Form1.Handle, WM_NEXTDLGCTL, 0, 0); prior control: SendMessage(Handle, WM_NEXTDLGCTL, 1, 0); |
How To Make Rounded Windows Create a different form in your application...procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender:TObject); var region: HRgn; begin region:=CreateEllipticRgn(1,1,200,200); SetWindowRgn(handle, region, true); end; |
How To Get Windows Uptime Find how long Windows has been working...function UpTime: string; const ticksperday : integer = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24; ticksperhour : integer = 1000 * 60 * 60; ticksperminute : integer = 1000 * 60; tickspersecond : integer = 1000; var t : longword; &nb... |
How To Find Out Total And Available Memory Get the total and available memory in your system. (Total free memory space in your system)procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var memory:TMemoryStatus; begin memory.dwLength:=sizeof(memory); GlobalMemoryStatus(memory); &nb... |
How To Change The System Time This code shows how to set the system time to another value.procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var systemtime : TSystemTime; NewTime:string; begin NewTime:='13:58:00'; DateTimeToSystemTime( D... |
How To Get The Windows OS Version Identify the Windows version of your systemfunction GetWindowsVersion : string; var OsVinfo : TOSVERSIONINFO; HelpStr : array[0..50] of char; begin ZeroMemory(@OsVinfo,sizeOf(OsVinfo));... |
How To Change The Desktop Wallpaper Change the wallpaper of your system by codeuses Registry, WinProcs; procedure SetWallpaper( sWallpaperBMPPath : String; bTile : boolean );&... |
How To Get The Windows Language Obtains the language that Windows is using.function Language:string; var sLangID:LangID; sLanguage: array [0..100] of char; begin sLangID:=GetSystemDefaultLangID; VerLanguageName(sLangID,sLang... |
How To Make A Gradient Filled Form Show how to paint a form in a different way...procedure TForm1.FormPaint(Sender: TObject); var Row, Ht: Word; IX: Integer; begin iX :=200 ; Ht:=(ClientHeight + 512) div 256; for Row := 0 to 512 do begin &nbs... |
How can I hide the caption bar on a form? To hide the caption bar you need to override on of the default form methods CreateParams (this also exists for other objects).The CreateParams method initializes a window-creation parameter record passed in the Params parameter (ref:Delphi Help).Go to the ... |
How To Send An E-mail By Code Use this function to send an e-mail through your program. You must have the component TNMSMTP from FastNet tools. This component is included in Delphi 4-5 Professional and Enterpriseprocedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin NMSMTP1.Host ... |
How To Open Url In Default Webbrowser Use this function to open your browser with a given URL.uses shellapi; .... procedure TForm1.Label1Click(Sender:TObject); begin shellexecute(handle,'open','http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch', nil,nil,sw_show); ... |
How To Check If A Soundcard Is Installed Use this code to verify if a soundcard is installed in your systemuses mmsystem; ... function Soundkarte:Boolean; begin Result := WaveOutGetNumDevs >0; end; |
How To Change Screen Resolution Change the resolution of your screen.Actually I've ever used this function for TV-based software development, because of TV-resolution.{ The function NewRes can have the following result: DISP_CHANGE_SUCCESSFUL The settings change was successful. DISP_CHAN... |
How To Force The Correct Decimal Separator Some English speaking countries use the "point" as decimal separator, while the rest of the world is using the "comma". How can you make sure that the user will press the correct key when entering a number with a decimal fraction? With the code in this exa... |