Merlin’s Delphi Forge

In the Borland Delphi and in the Borland Kylix IDEs you can precisely resize components to the exact size that you need. To resize a component to an exact size you can either use the Object Inspector and set the Height and Width values or use the Shift key to size components by 1 pixel.

To place multiple instances of the same component on a form, hold down the Shift key and click on the component palette. You will notice that the component icon border is now blue. This means that every time you click on the form an instance of the selected component will be created. Let go of [...]