How to Search for Text Quickly in the IDE Editor

Posted December 15th @ 3:58 pm by m3Rlin

If you don’t want to bother with the Find dialog then there sure is hope The Delphi/Kylix IDE has a shortcut - Ctrl + E. After pressing this keystroke notice that the status bar changes to “Searching for:”. Now all you have to do is type the text you are looking for. The text [...]

Delphi Component Messages

Posted December 15th @ 1:56 pm by m3Rlin

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 [...]