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The string length is automatically set but sometimes you want to change the length yourself. That’s because sometimes you have to have the same length of a string every time (when saving to binary files). You can always use the string[n] (ShortString) type but their maximum length is 256 characters.
!!Note: You CAN NOT set the [...]

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.

uses ShlObj;
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