Is there a Delphi option to 'lock' the design (layout) of a form against accidental changes?

Question

After years of Delphi development I now have hundreds of forms shared throughout our Applications. Compilation ranges from Delphi 7 through to XE, thus one form might be ope

Answer 1

Helo

I am pretty sure that Delphi has no such a thing. I have been searching for a solution to this problem as well.

But, theres one thing you can do: You can write your own Delphi addon using OTA (Open Tools API). I know that there are a few classes which are able to notify you when something are about to be saved. You can intercept this event and decide if you wanna save it (in your case, if it is a DFM).

BTW, if you have plans to do such component, tell me. :)

EDIT:

I have found a piece of code that may help you. Extracted from http://www.gexperts.org/otafaq.html

  TMyFormNotifier = class(TNotifierObject, IOTANotifier, IOTAFormNotifier)
  protected
     procedure FormActivated;
     procedure FormSaving;
     procedure ComponentRenamed(ComponentHandle: TOTAHandle; const OldName, NewName: string);
  end;