Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Whenever you try to connect to connect to a Internet server while no Internet connection is present you can be almost certain an Access Violation will fire.
The only way around this is to check whether a connection is present or not. You can use the code below.

uses
Windows, SysUtils, Registry, WinSock, WinInet;
…
type
TConnectionType [...]

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 [...]