A Tour of Your Project's Source

The Delphi IDE generates Object Pascal source code for you as you work with the visual components of the Form Designer. The simplest example of this capability is starting a new project. Select File, New Application in the main window to see a new form in the Form Designer and that form's source code skeleton in the Code Editor. The source code for the new form's unit is shown in Listing 1.1.

Listing 1.1. Source Code for an Empty Form
unit Unit1;

interface

uses
  Windows, Messages, SysUtils, Variants, Classes, Graphics, Controls, Forms,
  Dialogs;

type
  TForm1 = class(TForm)
  private
    { Private declarations }
  public
    { Public declarations }
  end;

var
  Form1: TForm1;

implementation;

{$R *.dfm}

end.

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