Salut Bryan Smith !
  BS> Thanks to Francois Piette for his "Hello World" post of 07 Jun 96. It
  BS> made you think - which is what this echo is all about :-)
I am glad you appreciated my contribution...
  BS> What is
  BS> really important about Francois' example is the way it forces you
  BS> torealize that, deep down beneath all the mumbo jumbo of VCL's and
  BS> point-and-click programming, Delphi is at heart just another compiler:
  BS> and thatit can be used as such once you overcome any fear of altering
  BS> the .DPR file.
You can go beyond my example and your code: you can write with Delphi 
exactly as you do in pure C code: using a traditional 
GetMessage/DispatchMessage loop and use a big case statement to 
process every message. The good new is that you can really write very 
small programs. The bad news is that it is no more so visual.
If you need fast and small programs, it's the solution. I will not 
recommand it for ordinary application developement. Just for the power 
developper having a very good Windows knowledge. A good example would 
be a kind of daemon program without real user interface.
Amiti‚s,
{-Francois Piette-}
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