Merlin’s Delphi Forge

Sometimes you want to create a fancy looking form from a bitmap, like WinAMP or K-J?fol. This part isn’t too hard. All you have to do is make a cool graphic, use the TImage component and set the form’s border style to bsNone. Well, all’s good until we want to move the form… Since there [...]

Applications created in Delphi 1 to 4 (not 5 and up) don’t “fly” to the taskbar but hide like in Windows 3.1x. This is because Borland’s programmers turned this function off. Why?! Well, this is because the main window of the program is not the one we create in the IDE. The program’s main window [...]