Available Categories

We've broken our articles into the following categories.

• Configuration, Errors, and Troubleshooting: Answers and solutions for error messages and unexpected behavior

• Forms and Reports: Design issues and tricks.

• General Questions: General information about Paradox.

• ObjectPAL: Getting Started: Help for getting up to speed with ObjectPAL and examples of common tasks.

• ObjectPAL: Examples and Solutions: Samples and toolkit-style solutions.

• ObjectPAL: Applications and Windows Integration: Deployment issues and examples demonstrating the Windows API.

• Resources: Lists Paradox related consultants, products, and web sites.

Configuration, Errors, and Troubleshooting

• Changing Language Driver Defaults
• Error: "Unable to Open Table" (Interbase)
• Error: "Can't Interpret File"
• Error: "Drive D: Not Ready"
   
• Error: "Insufficient Shared Memory Available"
• Error: "Invalid File Access"
• Error: "Network Initialization Failed"
• Error: "PFPS Initialization Failed"
• Error: "Start of DOS Errors"
   
• Problem: Buttons Don't Display
• Quirk: White Lines while Designing Forms
• Setting the Refresh rate in Paradox Runtime
• Sorting Problems

Forms and Reports

• Avoiding Style Sheet Problems
• Changing Style Sheets
• Controlling Report Magnification at Runtime
• Controlling Shortcut (Right-Click) Menus
• Converting Formatted Memos to RTF
   
• Creating Quick Reports
• Dynamically Populating Selection Lists and Combo Boxes
• Handling Maximized Reports
• Hiding (and Restoring) the Paradox menu
• Hiding Text on Reports
   
• Highlighting Records in Table Frames
• Passing Values to Reports
• Printing a Single Record
• Trick: Changing Properties for Multiple Objects
• Using Lists to Limit Field Values

General Questions

• Accurate Rounding
• Converting Data to Upper (or Lower) Case
• Determining Your BDE Version Number
• Paradox's Command-Line Options
• Saving Data in Upper (or Lower) Case
• Setting the NET FILE Location

ObjectPAL: Getting Started

• Automatically Placing Forms into Edit Mode
• Automatically Placing Memos into View Mode
• Button Tutorial: Printing Results from a Query
• Script Tutorial: Converting Field Values to Mixed Case
• Providing Consistent Exits from Your Forms
• Where are My Missing Events?
• Verifying Data Values Before a Form Closes

ObjectPAL: Examples and Solutions

• Accessing EditRegion Objects
• Adding Strings to Memo Variables
• Exporting Memos and BLOB's
• Hiding the Database Login
• Implementing Playfair Encryption
   
• Implementing Type Ahead (aka Quicken-style) Searching
• Keeping Forms Open when Changing Directories
• Passing Arrays to Libraries (and Forms)
• Prompting for Filenames
• Recursively Searching Directories with FileSystem
   
• Specifying Custom Filters in FileBrowser
• Starting the User's Web Browser
• Trick: Creating Resizeable FileBrowser Dialogs
• Triggering ChangeValue() Events After Lookup
• TWAIN Support in ObjectPAL

ObjectPAL: Applications and Windows Integration

• Changing the Paradox Icon
• Detecting Large Fonts from ObjectPAL
• Detecting Screen Resolution from ObjectPAL
• Determine the Class Name of the Paradox Desktop
   
• Externally Controlling Paradox with Windows Messages
• Getting or Setting the Paradox Title Bar Caption
• Restarting Windows from ObjectPAL

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