delphi-5

I want to write a small utility which will help me load a single 32bit bitmap (with alpha) from a EXE resource: ImageList1.DrawingStyle := dsTransparent; ImageList1.Handle := ImageList_LoadImage(MainInstance, 'MyBitmap32', 16, ImageList1.AllocBy, CLR_NONE, IMAGE_BITMAP, LR_CREATEDIBSECTION or LR_LOADTRANSPARENT); The above works well. So to generate that bitmap, I'm loading 32 bit transparent icons from my disk (with alpha) into an ImageList for i := 1 to 10 do ... ImageList2.AddIcon(AIcon) Now, how do I export the 32 bitmap (which will be transparent and have the alpha channel) from this

How can i simulate an OnDestroy event for a TFrame in Delphi? i nievely added a constructor and destructor to my frame, thinking that is what TForm does: TframeEditCustomer = class(TFrame) ... public constructor Create(AOwner: TComponent); override; destructor Destroy; override; ... end; constructor TframeEditCustomer.Create(AOwner: TComponent) begin inherited Create(AOwner); //allocate stuff end; destructor TframeEditCustomer.Destroy; begin //cleanup stuff inherited Destroy; end; The problem with this is that by the time my destructor runs, controls on the frame have been destroyed and are no

How do I create a Telnet Client inside of a Delphi 5 application? ICS (Internet Component Suite) by Francois Piette has got some useful components: http://www.overbyte.be/eng/products/ics.html It'll give you telnet protocol support, a terminal emulator and some stuff to help you scripting. It's easy to use, and it's all free. From the site: TTnCnx - TELNET client protocol support. TEmulVT - ANSI terminal emulation (like a TMemo but with ANSI escape sequences interpretation). TTnEmulVT - TELNET and ANSI terminal emulation combined into a single component. You can build a full telnet client

I need to mute/un-mute the sound card at startup and shutdown. I have found some code to do the work, but often Windows slams through the shutdown and the sound never gets muted. Can someone please tell me how to pause the shutdown long enough for my app to mute the sound? I can use a simple TTimer to pause the app long enough for it to run the muting and then let Windows get on with shutting down. How do I tell Windows to wait though? I notice that if I leave Firefox running and try to shutdown, Windows stops with a message, "These programs are preventing windows closing..." and needs a click

Is there a way to access the Jedi Debug Information (JDBG) contained in an executable? Microsoft debugging tools have pointed me to a stack chain in my binary, and i want to know what methods/procedures/functions these offsets correspond to: user32.dll!SendMessageA+0x4c StackOverflow.exe+0x179263 StackOverflow.exe+0x2315b5 StackOverflow.exe+0x1fc82 StackOverflow.exe+0x50388 StackOverflow.exe+0x541fe user32.dll!gapfnScSendMessage+0x332 Obviously i'm calling SendMessage , but i don't know from where. The executable was built with Jcl Debug info embedded in the executable; but i can't figure out