Merlin’s Delphi Forge

To change the date format you have to launch the BDE Administrator and set the data separator and the preferred date format. This is set in a different way the standard Windows regional settings so you may want to look up the BDE help. Then use the following code in your project source file:

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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 [...]