Form and Component Editing Commands

Posted December 15th @ 3:52 pm by m3Rlin

Delphi and Kylix have a couple rather unknown form and component editing shortcuts. Here they are:

To select the form when its surface is covered by components, simply Shift-Click the form.
To fine move (by 1 pixel) a selected component just press Ctrl whilst pressing the cursor keys.
To fine resize a component just press Shift whilst pressing [...]

Delphi IDE Hidden Shortcuts

Posted December 15th @ 3:44 pm by m3Rlin

The Delphi IDE has a lot of useful shortcuts that are not shown in the menu and are not listed in the Help or are hard to find in it. Here is a list of the shortcuts that I have found information about.

Creating unique GUIDs (for COM)

Keyboard layouts: Default, BRIEF emulation, Epsilon emulation, IDE [...]