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Posts related to application development using Embarcadero Delphi (formerly Borland Delphi). This page lists all posts in the category, in reverse chronological order.

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• UPS Tracking URL Builder

  Posted Friday, September 26, 2025 at 08:52 PM  in Miscellaneous, Delphi
  

  When you order packages online, a lot of vendors provide you with a tracking number instead of a tracking URL for your package. Or, when you get a tracking URL from UPS, the URL has a bunch of extra junk in it that isn't needed to actually track the package. In frustration, I built a little Windows app (in Delphi, of course) that takes a UPS tracking number and converts it into a tracking URL you can use to, you know, track the package.

• Setting Windows File and Directory Timestamps to Now

  Posted Sunday, June 29, 2025 at 06:18 AM  in Microsoft Windows, Delphi
  

  When working on a book and sometimes while writing software applications, I like to set my project files (Word documents or other files) to the same timestamp. I'm not sure why I started doing this, but it allows me to set a sort of release grouping on the files based on timestamp.

• Install Windows DLL Using Inno Setup

  Posted Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 05:50 PM  in Delphi
  

  I recently wrote a Delphi application for Windows that implements a Windows Shell Extension which means I must distribute it as a DLL. I've used Inno Setup for a while now to create and publish Windows installers, but I'd never created one before for a DLL.

• Delphi Single Instance App With Runtime Parameters

  Posted Sunday, June 15, 2025 at 03:58 PM  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows
  

  AI Generated   In the article, I learned how to prevent multiple instances of a Delphi application from running simultaneously and published a complete sample application demonstrating it. By assigning a unique name to the application and implementing code to check for existing instances, I can ensure only one instance runs at a time. The article also covered passing command-line parameters between instances and activating the initial instance when a second one is launched.

• Published Subdirectory Copy v1.1

  Posted Saturday, June 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows
  

  When I created my Subdirectory Copy application, my use case was copying a single set of files to a flash drive. As I got closer to releasing the product, I started thinking more about how users would use it and I realized that the application had to be able to manage multiple filesets for copying.

• Delphi ListBox Move Multiple Selected Items

  Posted March 23, 2024  in Delphi
  

  I was working on a Windows application project in Delphi that required moving items around within a Delphi standard ListBox. It's pretty easy to swap list item position when only a single item is selected, but once you enable `multiselect` on the component, things become more difficult. As I poked around on the Internet for solutions, I couldn't find a complete example, so I decided to create and publish one.

• Delphi Passing Data Between Forms

  Posted January 22, 2024  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows
  

  I'm building a Windows application using Delphi and I needed the ability to access data on the main form from another form (a form invoked by the main form). I poked around on the Internet and found different ways to do it.

• Windows Path Viewer App

  Posted January 21, 2024  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows
  

  A while back I had a problem with my Windows Path that I wrote about in Windows Path Items Not Available in Visual Studio Code. I was thinking about that problem recently and decided to build my own tooling for managing my system path. I didn't do this because I needed to, but I wanted to write some Windows code (Using Delphi) and this topic is interesting.

• End of the Year Wrap-up (2023)

  Posted December 31, 2023  in Delphi, Miscellaneous
  

  A summary of what happened this year on this site and in my life.

• Pumpkin Controller Native Apps for Windows

  Posted November 19, 2023  in Delphi, Flutter, Microsoft Windows
  

  In the post I published earlier today I mentioned that someday I might make a native windows version of my Pumpkin Controller app (See Glowing Pumpkin). Well apparently today's the day.

• Outlook Windows Delete Empty Inbox Folders

  Posted November 18, 2023  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Outlook
  

  Describes a free utility I published to automatically delete empty Inbox folders in Outlook on Microsoft Windows

• Coding One-Handed

  Posted July 4, 2023  in Delphi, Developer Tools
  

  I've been coding one-handed since shoulder surgery and I noticed how certain tools made that much easier.

• Outlook Populating Country Only in Contact

  Posted October 7, 2015  in Delphi, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows
  

  I'm frustrated that Outlook adds a country to contacts when I didn't ask it to. So I created a utility to delete them en masse.

• Accessing Outlook Categories Using Delphi

  Posted September 27, 2015  in Delphi, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows
  

  Describes a utility I wrote that automates pulling a list of catagories from Microsoft Outlook on Windows.

• Deleting Empty Outlook Appointments

  Posted September 26, 2015  in Delphi, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Windows
  

  Outlook suddenly generated thousands of empty appointments in my calendar, so I built a utility in Delphi that cleans them up.

• Change in Status

  Posted September 29, 2009  in Delphi, Microsoft Windows
  

  I recently had a change of employment status and I thought I'd write about it here just in case anyone out there knew of someone who had a need for my skills either as a contract worker or full time employee.