Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Starting with Delphi 4 certain shortcuts have changes and/or been added that make it hard to put certain letters into the Code Editor or Object Inspector. For example the Polish letter “ś” is entered by pressing Alt + S. Well, Delphi doesn’t make this possible because Alt + S is already assigned as an IDE [...]

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.