Merlin’s Delphi Forge

The easiest way to stop execution of your program is to use the Windows API Sleep() function. The function stops the program for n milliseconds. The only problem is that this function does not properly support multitasking, so during this time your program will not process any Windows messages, so you may want to check [...]

There is really no way to set the standard hint window to be always visible. The trick is to set the HintHidePause to a large value. 10 minutes should almost always be enough. The hint window is shown only when the user moves the mouse over a component and the keyboard is inactive. Not many [...]