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

Basically, no. Aside from the f'ing (pardon my french) explicit size and position properties which IMO never should have been in the .dfm, there are some third party components will change stuff just by you viewing the form. F.x. TMS components will update a version number even if you didn't change a thing since the previous version of their components.