delphi-2007

I would like to hide an application from the Windows 7 taskbar. I want to make something like a toolbar on the edge of the screen which does certain things when the user clicks on it, but I don't want it to show in the taskbar, since its a thing that i want to stay in the background. I tried the instructions in the following post, but it did not work on my application: How to hide a taskbar entry but keep the window form Then i tried it on a new empty VCL Forms Application and it still did not work. I searched for other solutions, but they all do very much the same like in the linked post. Has

I've just been debugging a problem with a function that returns a string that has got me worried. I've always assumed that the implicit Result variable for functions that return a string would be empty at the start of the function call, but the following (simplified) code produced an unexpected result: function TMyObject.GenerateInfo: string; procedure AppendInfo(const AppendStr: string); begin if(Result > '') then Result := Result + #13; Result := Result + AppendStr; end; begin if(ACondition) then AppendInfo('Some Text'); end; Calling this function multiple times resulted in: "Some Text" the

What is the best way to make a delphi application (delphi 2007 for win32 here) go completely full screen, removing the application border and covering windows task bar ? I am looking for something similar to what IE does when you hit F11. I wish this to be a run time option for the user not a design time decision by my good self. As Mentioned in the accepted answer BorderStyle := bsNone; was part of the way to do it. Strangely I kept getting a E2010 Incompatible types: 'TFormBorderStyle' and 'TBackGroundSymbol' error when using that line (another type had bsNone defined). To overcome this I

Is there a routine available in Delphi 2007 to convert the characters in the high range of the ANSI table (>127) to their equivalent ones in pure ASCII (<=127) according to a locale (codepage)? I know some chars cannot translate well but most can, esp. in the 192-255 range: À → A à → a Ë → E ë → e Ç → C ç → c – (en dash) → - (hyphen - that can be trickier) — (em dash) → - (hyphen) Zoë Peterson WideCharToMultiByte does best-fit mapping for any characters that aren't supported by the specified character set, including stripping diacritics. You can do exactly what you want by using that and