When a client approached me and asked for an application to help them search for and bring up specification documents, I thought it was something I could help with. One caveat, however, was that the database referencing these documents was a Microsoft Access Database. Perhaps even more interesting was that files the database referenced were […]
From the very first days of designing applications with Delphi I have lent much of my interface enhancements to things I have seen while using Applications or even the big behemoth, Windows itself. One of the coolest interface element that evoked a “How do I do that?” out of me was the ListBox addition and […]
Learn how to create a DLL file and use the Win32 API to gather information
After deciding it was time for me to explore the process of making a DLL file in Delphi, I started to think about where this might be applied. I decided a DLL would be the perfect solution to my problem. I needed the ability to create a system information utility that was reusable in Windows. A DLL as defined in the Delphi (v5) help files: