How to Create a Transparent Form

Posted December 15th @ 1:51 pm by m3Rlin

You may want to create a transparent form (for example: for a splash screen or for an About box) but you don’t know how. Well, there are 2 ways: for Windows 2000/XP and for the rest. First I’ll describe the non-Windows API version:
1. You can use this trick for making cool splash forms. Just add [...]

How to Print Images

Posted December 15th @ 1:49 pm by m3Rlin

Sometimes you want to print an image in Delphi but the TImage component doesn’t have any printing methods. Well, the solution is quite easy. All you have to do is draw on the printers Canvas. This sample code should give you the idea.
The first procedure will print only Bitmap images and will scale the image [...]