Merlin’s Delphi Forge

After installing the BDE the default value for the MSACCESS driver is the idda032.dll (DAO 3.0), which is used in Office 95. But if we are using Office 97 we have to change this setting to idda3532.dll (tip 8.1). We can do so using the following code:

…
uses
BDE;
…
procedure SetOffice97DB;
var
ConfigDesc: CFGDesc;
Cursor [...]

There is really no way to set the standard hint window to be always visible. The trick is to set the HintHidePause to a large value. 10 minutes should almost always be enough. The hint window is shown only when the user moves the mouse over a component and the keyboard is inactive. Not many [...]