For this tutorial I assume that you are familiar with Pascal. If you are not, read one of the many Turbo Pascal tutorials first (search for "pascal tutorial" in Yahoo). It also helps to know the concepts of object oriented programing (OOP), but I'll briefly explain this.
Please excuse all the typos and other faults. English is not my native language.
Delphi is a so called RAD-Tool (RAD stands for Rapid Application Development). It allows you to visually design (by using drag-and-drop) dialog and even whole applications. In the toolbar of the main window you can find a lot of predifined conponents to use on your projects. Simple double-click on the icons to paste them into the active form. On the left hand side of your screen is the object inspector. You can set properties for your components. There is no need to write source code for this! A good way to learn Delphi is to play around with the components.
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