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 [...]

How to Know if the Mouse has Entered the Component Area

Posted December 15th @ 1:58 pm by m3Rlin

If you ever created visual components you probably wanted to know if the mouse is over the component. Well, this is a lot easier than you could imagine using Delphi Help There are two Delphi component messages you need to use: CM_MOUSEENTER and CM_MOUSELEAVE. For a complete list of Delphi component messages check out [...]