I have an excel sheet with activeX controls. Since ActiveX controls do not function from outside of trusted locations in versions MS Office 2007 and higher, I am supposed to convert the controls into Windows form controls. My excel sheet is password protected. I need to understand the code difference. Please guide me how to proceed. If there's any tool for fast conversion, that will be great.
Thanks in advance.
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I'm trying to create an Android (multi-device) application with Delphi 10.2 that uses TWebBrowser. I load a URL and I want to parse its contents for fields, but I don't know how do it.
I read this excellent guide: http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian/delphi/twebbrowser/twebbrowser_oleobject.htm#OleObject.Document, but the property WebBrowser.OleObject.Document doesn't exist.
Can somebody help me, please?
The TWebBrowser for FMX is completely different from TWebBrowser for VCL. The VCL one makes use (for access to the Document, etc) of interfaces provided by Internet Explorer, or rather the DLLs on which it is based. IE only runs on Windows, so you shouldn't be surprised to learn that the interfaces it provides are not available on FMX.
The FMX TWebBrowser is a completely different and far more limited beast. It is not automatable in the same way TWebBrowser for VCL/Windows is, and some would say that is a good thing.
I am trying to create a multi device Firemonkey app. I want to have a memo where I can change font for individual text. But I am not seeing any RichEdit component to do this. Or can I achive this using some other component?
For example how can I do something like this?
Summary: Delphi is famous as the ancient sanctuary that grew rich as the seat of the oracle that was consulted on important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. Moreover, it was considered as the navel (or centre) of the world by the Greeks as represented by the Omphalos.
Embarcadero does not (yet?) provide a RichEdit component for FireMonkey. You will have to use a 3rd party component, such as this one:
Professional Rich Edit Component For Delphi XE7 Firemonkey On Android, IOS, OSX, And Windows
How can I read source of the open page in TWebBrowser in firemonkey (RadStudio XE7 - Firemonkey for Android)
In VCL I simply used WebBrowser1.document but in firemonkey it has an error
TWebBrowser does not contain a member named document
How can I fix that?
The sad answer is that you can't access the source code of a webpage directly from the TWebBrowser. You can't access it because the TWebBrowser in FireMonkey is cross-platform and that means it must work on all platforms. Android and iOS does not support and allow this, which means the Windows Desktop version of TWebBrowser can't allow this either.
You will have to use a different component to do this, probably a third party component.
I am not sure if this will help you or not, but here is a link to something that might help: http://firemonkeylessons.blogspot.tw/2015/01/get-htmljson-from-twebbrowser.html
I want to interoperate with third-party application and to provide a dialog box to it. API wants standard DialogProc and DLGTEMPLATE pointers. However, i'd really like to take advantages of VCL, form designer and such. How can i do this? Which code samples i can study?
Technical:
How can i do:
embed VCL form (or frame) into dialog box created from some boilerplate DLGTEMPLATE i supplied.
connect VCL WndProc to windows DialogProc.
Delphi VCL does not interoperate with standard windows Dialogs designed with dialog resource types. Visual studio supports creating dialog resources, still, even in VS 2010, but Delphi never has. Whatever it is that you've got an API for, please mention exactly what it is, and this will (if it isn't some obscure or in-house thing) increase the odds that someone can help you. Since the API expects a dialog handle, and expects to show that dialog and then run your dialog procedure, and send you stuff, you have two choices:
Don't use delphi at all. Use visual studio 6, because that's about the era that this API must have been designed for.
Use delphi, but use a third party dialog designer from Visual Studio 6 or Borland C++ 4.5, or so, we're talking about 1996 era here, and then write your DialogProc without benefit of any VCL controls or vcl code whatsoever.
I have never ever heard of anybody daft enough to rely on windows dialog resources to build their plugin-screens-in-a-dll-via-an-API. I'd really like to know what app it is you're trying to extend.
You might be able to add a modal dialog box that you show modally, from your code, and such a modally shown sub-dialog (a second level dialog) could use the VCL, but the top level dialog is not even under your control.
I'm looking for an application that will allow me to add mark-ups to pdfs just like adobe acrobat does via the comments option (e.g. stickynotes), including the options of hiding all comments, showing, printing and saving them to the pdf. My application is written using delphi 2009 and this is an additional feature I require.
There doesn't appear to be any vcl providers out there doing this at the moment (?). I've contacted quickpdf, vispdf, etc, etc
I'm particularly interested in hearing from anyone who has done this already / can do this,
thanks,
Matthew
Gnostice are well known for their PDF components for Delphi, specifically PDFtoolkit.
For future readers, Amyuni PDF Creator allows to select (and create) specific components within a PDF file (such as text, images or annotations) and change their attributes. It can be used in Delphi as an ActiveX control.