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When you are creating a splash screen you probably want it to show up as soon as possible. I have seen source codes where the splash screen has been shown on the main form’s OnCreate event and closed on its OnShow event. Well, this is not acceptable. Why? Because the splash screen is only shown [...]

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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