Merlin’s Delphi ForgeThe Delphi IDE has a lot of useful shortcuts that are not shown in the menu and are not listed in the Help or are hard to find in it. Here is a list of the shortcuts that I have found information about.
| Creating unique GUIDs (for COM) |
| Keyboard layouts: Default, BRIEF emulation, Epsilon emulation, IDE Classic, New IDE Classic. |
| Ctrl+Shift+G - generates a unique GUID. |
| Keystroke recording (Delphi 2+) |
| Keyboard layouts: Default, IDE Classic, Visual Studio emulation, New IDE Classic. |
| If you write a lot of code and the code is the same code all the time, you probably have come across a situation where it would be easier to record some keystrokes and play them back a number of times. You can now do this in the Delphi IDE by pressing Ctrl+Shift+R to start recording, type in the keystrokes you want repeated, and press Ctrl+Shift+R to stop recording. To play back, press Ctrl+Shift+P. When recording the editor status bar will show: recording. The New IDE Classic keyboard layout offers keystroke macro saving. After you press Ctrl+Shift+R to stop recording a dialog window will show and prompt to save the keystroke to a file. Note: This only works in the code editor. Keystroke macros do not work in the form editor. This function is in Delphi 2 and higher. |
| Moving/resizing components in IDE without the mouse |
| Keyboard layouts: All |
| Ctrl+Arrow Key - move visual components on a form. Shift+Arrow Key - resize visual components on a form. |
| Navigation in the visual designer |
| Keyboard layouts: All |
| Esc - make the selection move from the currently selected control to it’s parent control? |
| Set the selected text to upper case/lower case |
| Keyboard layouts: Default, IDE Classic, Visual Studio emulation, New IDE Classic. |
| Ctrl+K O - lower case Ctrl+K N - upper case |
| Troubleshooting the IDE (Delphi 4) |
| Keyboard layouts: Default |
| Ctrl-Alt-E - Delphi 4 opens an event log window. |
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