Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Applications created in Delphi 1 to 4 (not 5 and up) don’t “fly” to the taskbar but hide like in Windows 3.1x. This is because Borland’s programmers turned this function off. Why?! Well, this is because the main window of the program is not the one we create in the IDE. The program’s main window [...]

You may want to create a transparent form (for example: for a splash screen or for an About box) but you don’t know how. Well, there are 2 ways: for Windows 2000/XP and for the rest. First I’ll describe the non-Windows API version:
1. You can use this trick for making cool splash forms. Just add [...]