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4.14.2014 Shape Your Form Into Anything!

Forms are rectangular, right? In this article we prove it wrong. We will turn our form into circle, triangle and what not!

Today we'll make a JPEG compressor. Sounds exciting, doesn't it? It can convert and compress from any other image formats too!

The long awaited stable version Lazarus 1.2 has been released yesterday. It has FPC 2.6.2 like its previous versions. It has huge number of improvements. Plus, it can have multiple installations in Windows.

We often need to open a directory/folder in a File Manager to show its contents. Today we learn how to run Windows Explorer to automatically show the content of a directory of our choice.

As a Lazarus user we know how often some links we visit. And typing them again and again is a daunting task for lazy programmers like us! ;-) So LazPlanet introduced a new Links section in the sidebar so that necessary links stay always on the homepage and you can click them and enjoy the ride.

Fullscreen is a common option in many of the popular programs we use. Today we learn the simple trick of making our program fullscreen.

If you want to build some uncommon software which needs hiding the taskbar then check out this article.

Today we explore a painless online solution for running your Free Pascal programs online, without installing and configuring a compiler yourself! Neat!

We learn how to make our forms stay Always on Top so that it always stays shown on screen. It is good for projects where live information is shown or sometimes just for fun!