Selecting the parent component
Did you ever have the problem that your form (or a component) was
completely covered by components so you couldn't select it any more?
Scrolling through the object inspector's list of components can be very
annoying, so why not simply press ESC when you have selected a
component? Pressing ESC will move the selection to the parent of a
component, eventually arriving at the form. The quickest way to select the form is to mark a non-visual component and then press ESC.
Indenting text
Are you still using space and delete to align your code? Pressing
Control-Shift-I will indent the current selection, Control-Shift-U will
un-indent it. Now try to keep the buttons pressed...
Inserting more than one component at a time
This is already a well-known tip: hold the shift key while selecting the
desired component from the toolbar. Now each click on the form creates
another component. Click the cursor-button (or another component) to
stop it.
Who made it?
Go into the about box, hold the ALT-key and type...
TEAM to see the delphi-team,
DEVELOPERS to see the developers,
QUALITY to see the quality team,
VERSION to see the real version number
Some of these might not work in every version of Delphi.
Did you ever have the problem that your form (or a component) was
completely covered by components so you couldn't select it any more?
Scrolling through the object inspector's list of components can be very
annoying, so why not simply press ESC when you have selected a
component? Pressing ESC will move the selection to the parent of a
component, eventually arriving at the form. The quickest way to select the form is to mark a non-visual component and then press ESC.
Indenting text
Are you still using space and delete to align your code? Pressing
Control-Shift-I will indent the current selection, Control-Shift-U will
un-indent it. Now try to keep the buttons pressed...
Inserting more than one component at a time
This is already a well-known tip: hold the shift key while selecting the
desired component from the toolbar. Now each click on the form creates
another component. Click the cursor-button (or another component) to
stop it.
Who made it?
Go into the about box, hold the ALT-key and type...
TEAM to see the delphi-team,
DEVELOPERS to see the developers,
QUALITY to see the quality team,
VERSION to see the real version number
Some of these might not work in every version of Delphi.