Merlin’s Delphi Forge

When closing Delphi 6 in Windows XP Delphi does not exit properly. It saves all files and settings but the program is still resident in memory. You have to forcefully close it. This also happens when you want to close a project and the Code Explorer is on. If you attempt this Delphi will close [...]

When you are creating a splash screen you probably want it to show up as soon as possible. I have seen source codes where the splash screen has been shown on the main form’s OnCreate event and closed on its OnShow event. Well, this is not acceptable. Why? Because the splash screen is only shown [...]