Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Since Internet Explorer is a part of Microsoft Windows 95 (OSR 2 and OSR 2.1), 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP or Windows Vista you may want to add a link to your home page that will start Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE). Here’s the code to do so:

uses
Windows, {$ifdef ver90} OLEAuto {$else} ComObj {$endif};
…
procedure [...]

t is possible to create Win32s applications in Delphi 2+ that will run under Windows 3.x. But to run them you will have to have Win32s installed on the destination computer (It’s available for free from Microsoft). The trick is not to use any Win32 API functions that don’t exist in the Win32s API. Also [...]