How to Find Out if a Program is Running

Posted December 15th @ 9:08 pm by m3Rlin

I received tip from Mike Gajewski, one of our readers. This is the code you need to find out if a certain program is running. The IsProcess() routine checks if the specific filename is running. This tip can be useful when your application should or needs some other application running in order to run properly/at [...]

Why Don’t Applications Written in Delphi “Fly” to the Taskbar?

Posted December 15th @ 1:52 pm by m3Rlin

Applications created in Delphi 1 to 4 (not 5 and up) don’t “fly” to the taskbar but hide like in Windows 3.1x. This is because Borland’s programmers turned this function off. Why?! Well, this is because the main window of the program is not the one we create in the IDE. The program’s main window [...]

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