The easiest way to stop execution of your program is to use the Windows API Sleep() function. The function stops the program for n milliseconds. The only problem is that this function does not properly support multitasking, so during this time your program will not process any Windows messages, so you may want to check [...]
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 [...]
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