The main window Delphi 4 consists of a number of ‘floating’ windows, each of which can be moved around the screen. This applies to the toolbar, palette component and menus.
A number of useful additions appeared in the code editor Delphi 4. These include, for example, automatically create a template for practices, procedures and functions, described in section ads.
New version of the utility Project Manager at Delphi allows you to combine together several projects. This makes it easier to work on projects that contain more than one executable file. Use one executable file and a few DLL, or a combination of several DLL, resources and executable files.
In Delphi 4 introduced the concept of group projects together, projects executed modules (exe and dll), resources, etc. Files group projects saved with the extension. BPG and constitute a team make.
In Delphi 4 introduced a number of useful additions to help facilitate the process of debugging emerging applications. Select View | Debug Windows, and you get a list of different windows that display information useful when debugging programs.
A number of expansions and changes in Delphi touched libraries Visual Component Library (VCL).
In Delphi 4 introduced several new interface elements – components TMonthCalendar, TPageScroller and TControlBar.
Delphi 4 Client / Server Suite includes a variety of tools for building CORBA-objects. You start with the command File | New and selecting the tab Multitier. You then choose a CORBA Object, or CORBA Data Module. You use the editor type library to set the basic characteristics of the object. To ensure that objects to ‘talk’ to each other, a special ‘bridge’, known as ORB (Object Request Broker). The composition of Delphi for these purposes is Inprise VisiBroker.
The composition of Delphi 4 is BDE 5, allows to access to Access 97, expanded the types of fields Oracle 8, including abstract data types (ADT), arrays, links, and nested tables. To do this, the VCL library implemented new classes – TADTField, TReferenceField, TDataSetField and TArrayField.
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