Delphi_Tips Issue No# 71 - 19 February 2003

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Delphi_Tips Issue No# 71 - 19 February 2003
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More Delphi Tips from Greg Lief:
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FORCE IMMEDIATE POSTING OF TTABLE CHANGES

Q. I have an app that uses dBASE files.
When I add records to the file and then post them, my Delphi app sees
them
just fine.
But if I use Visual dBase to look at the file, I can't see those records
until
I close the file in the Delphi app.
Is there some caching going on that I have to flush?
I tried doing a TTable.CommitUpdates after the post but that gave
me an error ("not in cached update mode").
In the Clipper days I would have handled this with a call to dbCommit().

Is there a Delphi equivalent?

http://www.delphicollection.com/public/GregLief/gl_q&a160.html
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SETTING CUSTOM ROW HEIGHTS IN TDBGRID

Download accompanying example

Q. My company has asked me if I know of any third party grids that
can show different rows with different heights.
Any suggestions?

http://www.delphicollection.com/public/GregLief/gl_q&a161.html
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PREVENTING SCREEN FLICKER WHEN CHANGING
BORDERICONS OR BORDERSTYLE

Q. We want to use the same form in two different ways.
This involves changing the BorderIcons and BorderStyle
properties on-the-fly, for example:

BorderIcons := BorderIcons + [biMaximize] ;
BorderStyle := bsSizeable ;

But whenever I change either or both of these properties, it causes
screen flicker.
I've tried using the Windows API LockWindowUpdate function, passing it
the
Form.Handle property, but that doesn't get rid of the flicker. Is there
anything else that I can do?

http://www.delphicollection.com/public/GregLief/gl_q&a162.html
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