Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Delphi sends messages for notification of events that are only applicable to Delphi components. They are like Windows messages in use. If you have a component that publishes the Font property the component probably needs to be repainted if any subproperties in the Font are changed. Changing the Font property does not necessarily generate a [...]

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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