Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Here are some useful tips to make your programs run faster, make the executables smaller and to ease the programming part

When your are going to use only one or two functions or procedures from a unit and you have the unit’s source code don’t include the whole unit in the [...]

Delphi sends messages for notification of events that are only applicable to Delphi components. They are like Windows messages in use. If you have a component that publishes the Font property the component probably needs to be repainted if any subproperties in the Font are changed. Changing the Font property does not necessarily generate a [...]