Merlin's Delphi Forge

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 shortcut. You can either:

1. Copy the letter in another application and then paste it in Delphi .
2. Use the Alt + character code method to create the letter.
3. Disable Alt shortcuts in Delphi. This is the preferred way by programmers who have to create non-English applications every day. To turn the shortcuts off launch the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) and find the following key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Borland\Delphi\4.0 (or whatever version you are using)\Editor\Options. Now create a string value named “NoCtrlAltKeys” and set it’s value to “1″. If you have Delphi running remember to restart it.

If you wish to know what files Delphi has open you can check the buffer list. The shortcut is Ctrl + B. A window will pop up with the list. To open any of the files in the editor just double-click it. Some files will always remain open although you may not always see them in the IDE (project group files, project sources etc.) Although you may close the tab with it the file is still in memory.