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BDE Alias through Delphi
You should take a look at the DbiAddAlias function. It's documented in BDE32.HLP. It basically adds a new alias to the BDE configuration file (IDAPI.CFG for example). This procedure creates an alias to an Oracle database: procedure CreateNewOracleDBEAlias(aAliasName, aSID, aUserName: string)...- dprotas
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- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
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Adding a TDate element to a TList object
Since TList stores pointers you can always resort to so some dirty code and get pointers to your TDate function GetTDateTimePointer(aDate: TDateTime): Pointer; var xPointer: ^TDateTime; begin New(xPointer); xPointer^:= aDate; Result:= xPointer; end; you should always be careful with...- dprotas
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- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
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listbox.items property tstringlist?
Doing what Ulfeng proposes won't work. TListBox's Items property has this line in its Set method: Items.Assign(Value); so assigning SL to AListBox.Items only copies the string inside SL to the string holder of AList. The only way to do what you ask would be inheriting from TListBox and...- dprotas
- Post #3
- Forum: Embarcadero: Delphi
