Windows, web pages, multimedia programs, all have backgrounds. How come your Delphi f

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Of course you could place a "TImage" component on your form and set its "Alignment" to "Client" in order to place a background image on your form. Here's another way: Add following code to your form's "Public declarations" section:
bmpBackground : TBitmap;

Double click on your form and add bitmap initialization code in the "FormCreate" event:
bmpBackground := TBitmap.Create;
bmpBackground.
LoadFromFile( 'c:windowssetup.bmp' );

Go to the form's events list and double click on "OnPaint". Add following line to the "FormPaint" event:
Canvas.Draw( 0, 0, bmpBackground );

Finally insert the following code in to the "FormDestroy" event ("OnDestroy" event):
bmpBackground.Free;

Sample screen shot:

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