Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Windows keeps track of the files you work with ands them to the Start|Documents menu. If you want to add documents to this menu from your program, just use the SHAddToRecentDocs() function. The function requires a PChar parameter but so you can use aways either typecast strings to PChars or use the StrPCopy() function.

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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 [...]