Delphi Easter Eggs
March 20th, 2009
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Borland Delphi 7 Easter Egg
- Put a shortcut to Delphi7 in your Start Menu called Delphi7. (So you can click Start|Programs|Delphi7)
- Right click this shortcut, properties, set the Shortcut key to CTRL + SHIFT + 7, click OK.
- Click Start, press escape, then hold Ctrl+Shift, press and release 7.
- You should see a picture of the development team (I assume that’s who they are). I have found that it does not always come up, though.
Borland Delphi 7 Easter Egg Team Picture
Borland Delphi 6 Easter Egg
- In the About screen hold down Alt and type one of the following: “team”, “jedi”, or “quality”.
Borland Delphi 5 Easter Egg
- Make a text file, either in the IDE with File | New… | Text, or using Notepad, or Windows Explorer.
- Save the text file with a .Allen extension, as opposed to a .Txt extension.
- Start a new project in Delphi 5 and open the project manager (View | Project Manager or Ctrl+Alt+F11).
- Right-click on the project, choose Add… and use the Files of type: combobox to show Any file (*.*).
- Choose the .Allen file and press Open to add it to the project.
- At this point, right-clicking on the text file will give you a menu including the entry Meet Allen Bauer.
- Choosing this menu item firstly displays a message box saying: Hi I’m Allen
- Your Web Browser is then launched to display the URL http://www.on24.com/corporatevideo/borland/3-5_56.html.
This is a Web page showing a video of Allen talking about some of the new features in C++Builder 4.
If you now compile the project (Ctrl+F9), the compiler will produce some additional credits to the IDE developers.
A side effect of the compilation (assuming the project had been saved) is to also produce another empty text file with the same name, but with a .Allen.Bauer extension.
