Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Ever wanted to create forms that had a cool shape? How about an elliptic form? This would make a nice splash screen, wouldn’t it? Sure. But how can I create one of these? Hmmmm… Well, Windows 32 bit has all we need. CreateEllipticRgn() allows you to create an elliptic region. After we do so all [...]

Sometimes you want to create a fancy looking form from a bitmap, like WinAMP or K-J?fol. This part isn’t too hard. All you have to do is make a cool graphic, use the TImage component and set the form’s border style to bsNone. Well, all’s good until we want to move the form… Since there [...]