Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
Citadel s design-time Wizard in action
In Delphi the forms visual designs are encoded as dfm files and directly included into the executables as resources. This implementation has two disadvantages:
1. They are fully exposed to the public.
2. The format is very suitable at design-time, but too bloated at runtime.
We have designed a tool that fixes both problems and it will only take you 1 minute to implement. All you have to do is:
• add one component
• add one line of code to your project
• launch the Citadel Wizard
Compression: The benefits from getting a smaller executable are obvious. There are some products that compress executables. They get a very good compression ratio but need more memory to work, as the full executable must be loaded at startup and code memory is not shared between instances. Citadel just compresses the dfm resources and they are loaded on demand as usual, so it doesn t suffer these problems.
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