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You are way ahead of me. I have not studied functions or procedures yet. Can you write out the code?

Oh...I fixed it. It's working now.

I have a program and there is a Edit box and a few buttons. When the program is run, I want to be able to press a button called Show Values and then you will see two lines of code: The value of x is: 6, and The value of y is 7. But I want each line to print on a new line. So I put an sLineBreak in there but it's not working. The second line is just printing after the first line. It should look like this: The value of x is 6 The value of y is 7 Here is my code so far: procedure TFormIncrementAndDecrement.ButtonShowValuesClick(Sender: TObject); var x, y: integer; begin x := 6; y := 7; EditResult.Text := 'The value of x is: ' + IntToStr(x) + sLineBreak; EditResult.Text := EditResult.Text + 'The value of y is: ' + IntToStr(y);

I got it working now. I forgot to include sLineBreak.

It still is printing on the same line.

Thank You, that is working much better. But when I run my program the words MemoResult show in the Memo control. How do I get rid of them? I've looked in the Object Inspector and I don't see a way to remove them from the Memo contol.

Is there a page out there somewhere that shows some naming conventions for the controls in C++ Builder? Like how do you abbreviate things like the Edit box or the Label etc? Do you just follow Visual Studio conventions? Just wondering what would be some good naming abbreviations.

I'm using a regular Label currently to store the sum of some addition, but the book I'm working out of shows the Label sunken in a little bit. It's not perfectly flat like a regular Label is. It has a real shallow depression in it. What is the name of this control?

I wrote a very simple program that asks the user to enter an integer. When I was writing the code for the Quit button, I saw a flashing word on the screen, below all the code. This word flashes just for a brief second and then goes away. It looks like the word is calculating... Is this a bug?

I've got a program that asks the user to enter the name of a boy, and the name of a girl. Then he clicks on the Add Couple button, and the boy and girl are added to a listbox together. They're going to a dance together. But the compiler will not let me list the variables on individual lines. It will only list my variables on one line. Even my book says you can also write it like this. This does not work: procedure TFormStringConcatenation.ButtonAddCoupleClick(Sender: TObject); begin Var Boy: string; Girl: string; Couple: string; Boy := EditEnterBoy.Text; Girl := EditEnterGirl.Text; Couple := Boy + ' and ' + Girl; ListBoxCouple.Items.Add(Couple); This however does work: procedure TFormStringConcatenation.ButtonAddCoupleClick(Sender: TObject); begin Var Boy, Girl, Couple: string; Boy := EditEnterBoy.Text; Girl := EditEnterGirl.Text; Couple := Boy + ' and ' + Girl; ListBoxCouple.Items.Add(Couple); end;

Okay I got it working now.

That won't work either. Compiler says "undeclared identifier."

I was experimenting which how to change the forecolor (the text), how to change the color of the text in a label, and all the menu items are frozen. When I click on them nothing happens at all. Now they are working again. Don't know.

On the Welcome Page when you have Delphi open, there is an area that says Recent Projects. Okay that's fine, but is there a way to clear the list?

Okay I found out how to do it.

I tried very hard to capture a screenshot but to no avail. But the message definitely says calculating... I'd like to report it to Embarcadero but I'm sure they too would ask me for a screenshot. Without that I don't know what they could even do about it.

I don't think I can capture a screen shot because it's quite fast. I'll try anyway though. I'm using the Community Edition. 12 Version 29.0.51961.7529. I'm seeing the flash in the code editor. Really strange and I'd like to get rid of it.

I'm using the Community Edition of C++ Builder, and when I start the software up the first thing it shows is the Welcome Page. I'd rather not have that so is there a way to disable it?

I got it going now. I completely removed the background image. So now it's a plain looking background image. Not even a gradient color either. Looks quite a bit better.

There is a red arrow pointing downwards next to the return statement. Never seen this before. Why is it there?

I have not really dived into Delphi but it looks like a cool language to learn. I do have some books on it. My question is if you had to guess, is Delphi widely used, or is it kinda dead as a language?

I would say that just because the same man wrote both languages does not make them similar. Delphi is definitely different than C#. C# is easier to grasp than Delphi is.

I thought in Delphi there was end; with a semicolon And end. with a period But I have seen a third end That one has nothing after the keyword What's going on?

I remember back around 1997 or so when I was working with Microsoft Visual Basic 6 I wanted to try their other product, Visual C++ 6. But when I looked at some of the code it looked like a scary nightmare. I guess I was expecting it to look kinda like standard C++ but it looked way different with all kinds of different terminology and it was way over my head. Right around the same time I found out about this product called Borland C++ 4 Standard so I bought that and just made console programs with it. I'd like to ask you guys if you have worked with Microsoft's Visual C++. Did you like it or hate it?

I like console programming. But I also like beginning Windows programming which is what I have already started using C# and C++ Builder. One of the more adventourous programs I would like to build is a 10 question music test or a 10 question psychology test. I want it to ask a question and then the user will give his answer to the question and then hit the Next button and the next question appears. It will be multiple choice so I will be using radio buttons I imagine. I'm wondering if I would need to use 10 different forms to represent the 10 questions, or is there a way to to continue to use just one form for all 10 questions. I like bouncing around too between languages. Microsoft Visual C++ when I found out what it was like turned me off, but I have often looked into it again but each time I say No Thanks. Curiosity.