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Strange [number]s in Delphi DFM files – origin and necessity?

September 22, 2023 by Tarik

Those numbers aren’t completely useless. Let’s say you have classes TA, TB and TC, and TB and TC both derive from TA. The DFMs look like: object A: TA object X: TX end end inherited B: TB object Y: TY end end inherited C: TC object Y: TY [0] end inherited X: TX [1] end … Read more

Delphi – Why does ExplicitWidth and ExplicitHeight keep appearing in .DFM files and what is it?

July 31, 2023 by Tarik

With DDevExtensions you can disable storing these properties in the dfm: http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/?page_id=10 Adds Explicit* property remover to keep DFM files compatible to older Delphi versions