Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Delphi and Kylix have a couple rather unknown form and component editing shortcuts. Here they are:

To select the form when its surface is covered by components, simply Shift-Click the form.
To fine move (by 1 pixel) a selected component just press Ctrl whilst pressing the cursor keys.
To fine resize a component just press Shift whilst pressing [...]

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 [...]