How to Obtain all Characters in Delphi 4+ IDE

Posted December 15th @ 4:12 pm by m3Rlin

Starting with Delphi 4 certain shortcuts have changes and/or been added that make it hard to put certain letters into the Code Editor or Object Inspector. For example the Polish letter “ś” is entered by pressing Alt + S. Well, Delphi doesn’t make this possible because Alt + S is already assigned as an IDE [...]

Why Don’t Applications Written in Delphi “Fly” to the Taskbar?

Posted December 15th @ 1:52 pm by m3Rlin

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 [...]