Merlin’s Delphi Forge

You almost never need all your application’s forms in memory all the time. To reduce the amount of memory required at load time and load time, you may want to create some forms only when you need to use them. For example, a dialog box needs to be in memory only during the time a [...]

Ever wanted to create forms that had a cool shape? How about an elliptic form? This would make a nice splash screen, wouldn’t it? Sure. But how can I create one of these? Hmmmm… Well, Windows 32 bit has all we need. CreateEllipticRgn() allows you to create an elliptic region. After we do so all [...]