Merlin’s Delphi Forge

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 [...]

You may have wanted to create a form that doesn’t have a caption bar, just like the one’s you may see in setup programs. Delphi VCL doesn’t give you but you can also use the Windows API
Just add this code to you form’s OnCreate method:

SetWindowLong(Handle, GWL_STYLE, GetWindowLong(Handle, GWL_STYLE) and not WS_CAPTION);
Height := Height - [...]