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What I may need to do is as soon as I have a new Project open save the Project right away in the specific folder that I want. That way Delphi won't have much chance to do something behind my back.

Does not seem that Delphi has a Clear() method. So I figure I got to use the quotation marks. But this is not working: LabelGreeting -> Caption := "";

It took awhile but I got it figured out. You got to use single quotation marks, not double.

Visual Studio has a property for the Form that specifies start up position on the screen. I select Center Screen with that. I'm looking for something similar to that using Delphi. So my program runs in the center of the screen instead of off to one side.

Okay I found it. I neglected to click on the Form first to see all the properties.

Trying out RAD Studio 11 and when it come up the Welcome page says "error loading data." Did some research on this and they say to run GetItCmd.exe -c=useoffline so I run that command in a command window and it successfully went but the error messages remain there.

There is no startpage etc. listed in the registry on mine. So I deleted everything that said Welcome Page but now I'm getting some errors in the IDE. I tried the -np after the bds.exe on the command line and it worked. The Welcome Page did not show.

I'm thinking I may start working with it soon. I'm just a hobbyist when it comes to programming, and I've had some fun doing it.

I was doing my empty string things wrong. I used to think that "" and " " meant the same thing. I just learned they don't. To make an empty string you do "" with the quotation marks close together. Where as the " " means the space character which has an ASCII code of 32. Does C++ Builder have a Clear() method like C# does? So if I didn't want to do this: labelAnswer.Text = "" I could use a Clear() method: labelAnswer.Clear() Something like that anyway.

I did not see anything about a Clear method so I guess I would have to use Edit1 -> Text = "".

I mean my Clear button looks like this: EditCharacterEntry -> Text = " "; EditCharacterEntry -> SetFocus(); Don't know how that "is 32" thing got in there before.

Well it appears to be working now. All I did to the Clear button was this: void __fastcall TFormCharacterValues::ButtonClearClick(TObject *Sender) { EditCharacterEntry -> Text = " "; LabelAnswer -> Caption = " "; EditCharacterEntry -> SetFocus(); }

I noticed that if I hit the Clear button, that is when the output is wrong. If I don't hit the Clear button, then the output is correct: A is 65 B is 66 C is 67

Don't know what's wrong because I'm getting garbage values in my LabelAnswer. I even get a graphic of a tiny square in the output. I want the output to be like this: A is 65 B is 66 Here is my code: int chValue = 0; AnsiString myString; Char ch = EditCharacterEntry -> Text[1]; chValue = static_cast<int>(ch); LabelAnswer -> Caption = ch + " is " + chValue; Sometimes the output will be correct, like if I enter 'A' it will say 'A' is 65. But other times it just says "is 32".

That article doesn't help a beginner hobbyist.

I'm kinda confused about how to save a project in C++ Builder. I mean in the File menu there is four options: Save Save as Save project as Save all So lets say I have started a new project (a Windows project, not console). So I'm working with a Unit file and a header file and whatever else. How do I save everything? I know that if I wanted to save the project under a different name than I gave it originally, I would use Save project as. Or I suspect if I wanted to save just one file under a different name, I would use Save as. But what is the difference between Save and Save all? How do you guys do it? And should I save the project right away after seeing Form1 come up on the screen? Or should I save the project after I'm done working on it for the day? But I've had problems in this area that's why I'm asking.

I need to print these lines on separate lines. So each output is on a new line. Don't know where I'm going wrong but right now it's doing this: The value of count is 0The value of total is 5 My code is this: int count; int total; count = 5; total = 0; EditResults -> Text = EditResults -> Text + "The value of count is " + IntToStr(count) + "\r\n"; EditResults -> Text = EditResults -> Text + "The value of total is " + IntToStr(total); // total = ++count + 6; // EditResults -> Text = EditResults -> Text + "\r\nThe value of count is " + count; // EditResults -> Text = EditResults -> Text + "\r\nThe value of total is " + total; I've commented out the last three lines until I figure out what's wrong. I'm using an Edit box and I looked for a multi-line property but none is listed.

Ha! I got it figured out! You have to go into Lines and then delete those words in the String List Editor. Works good now.

My program runs correctly now, but for some odd reason when I hit Run in the Memo box the words (what I used to name the Memo control) say "MemoResults". How do I get rid of those words? I don't want those words in there.

How do I make small, fine adjustments to the components in C++ Builder? Like if I have a Label selected, how do I relocate it using small adjustments? I know in Visual Studio you use the arrow keys.

So I got rid of the Edit box and replaced it with a Memo box and now my program is printing on different lines. But it also says MemoResults in the box, so how do I get rid of that? I'm looking in Properties for a Text or Caption property and I don't see them.

Both my Project File and my Source code file have the .cpp extension. The Source Code file has the correct extension, but does my Project File have the wrong extension? What extension should the Project File have? Can I change the extension to whatever it's supposed to be? Actually I just started a new project and when I look at the file tree in the upper right, one file it made is called Project1.cpp.

C++ Builder builds your project faster than Visual C#. Maybe because C++ is a compiled language.

I have two GUI projects now in my folder but I noticed in my first project C++ Builder made the header file with a .cpp extension (Project Welcome Program .cpp). In the other project it gave the project file a .h extension (Project Simple Variable.h). Shouldn't these Project files be labeled the same?

Just to change the topic only for a second, I've noticed that C++ Builder is faster and more responsive than Microsoft's Visual C#.