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 [...]

In the Borland Delphi and in the Borland Kylix IDEs you can precisely resize components to the exact size that you need. To resize a component to an exact size you can either use the Object Inspector and set the Height and Width values or use the Shift key to size components by 1 pixel.