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How to Get a Unique File Name

December 15th, 1999 m3Rlin 1 comment

You want to save data to a temporary file but you don’t what to file name to use? Well, this function does all the work for you.

function CreateUniqueFileName(sPath: string): string;
var
  chTemp: Char;
begin
  repeat
    Randomize;
    repeat
      chTemp := Chr(Random(43) + 47);
      if Length(Result) = 8 then
        Result := Result + '.'
      else if chTemp in ['0'..'9', 'A'..'Z'] then
        Result := Result + chTemp;
    until Length(Result) = 12;
  until not FileExists(sPath + Result);
end;

How to Determine the Screen Resolution

December 15th, 1999 m3Rlin No comments

There are two ways to determine the screen’s height and width.

1) Use the global Screen variable.

uses
  Forms;
...
  Screen.Height { Screen height in pixels }
  Screen.Width  { Screen width in pixels  }
...

2) Use the Windows API GetSystemMetrics() function. This function can be useful in applications that don’t use the VCL like console applications.

uses
  Windows;
...
  GetSystemMetric(SM_CXSCREEN) { Screen height in pixels }
  GetSystemMetric(SM_CYSCREEN) { Screen width in pixels  }
...