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.

When creating components you may want to know when the user changed the font or text. This can be quite easily done using the CM_FONTCHANGED and CM_TEXTCHANGED messages.

TComponent1 = class(TComponent)
…
private
…
procedure CMFontChanged(var Message: TMessage); message CM_FONTCHANGED;
procedure CMTextChanged(var Message: TMessage); message CM_TEXTCHANGED;
…
procedure TComponent1.CMTextChanged(var Message:TMessage);
begin
…
end;
procedure TComponent1.CMFontChanged(var Message:TMessage);
begin
…
end;