Think of your favorite Windows application. There must be some button somewhere on the application's window. When you click this button something happens - it's "click" event is executed. Also, this button might be in color, it has some text ("Caption") and is positioned somewhere.
This button is an object, or a control. It has properties, it responds to events.
You as a programmer will decide how the button looks and what happen when a user of your application clicks on it.
To help you work with the button while designing your application, Delphi has "Object Inspector"!
Object Inspector - the IDE Sheriff!
Each object and each form, has a set of properties – such as color, size, position, caption – that can be modified in the Delphi IDE or in your code, and a collection of events – such as a mouse click, keypress, or component activation – for which you can specify some behavior. The Object Inspector displays the properties and events (note the two tabs) for the selected object (component) and allows you to change the property value or select the response to some event.For example, each form has a Caption (the text that appears on it's title bar). To change the caption of the "Conversion Tester" demo project first activate the form by clicking on it. In the Object Inspector find the property Caption (in the left column), note that it has the 'Conversion Tester' value (in the right column). To change the caption of the form simply type the new text value, like 'Conversion Tester Demo' (without the single quotes). When you press [Enter] the caption of the form will change.
