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    <p>I have a "username" TEdit on a Delphi 2006 login form. When the application starts up the user is asked to enter the username. The TEdit gets focus and the caret is placed in its horizontal center for some reason. As soon as anything is typed the caret is left aligned again and everything looks normal. </p> <p>It is also strange that it wasn't always like this. This behaviour suddenly started a few years ago (I believe we still used Delphi 6 at that time). Any idea what might be causing this?</p> <p>Additional info (has been asked for): <li>The problem is widespread: D2006 and D6 (I believe), 5 or 6 Delphi instances on as much computers, all applications using that login form. The effect is limited to the form however, it does not occur on other TEdits.</li> <li>The TEdit is not filled with spaces (that would be strange to do in the first place).</li> <br> More info (Nov 13): <li>The caret is not centered exactly, it is <i>almost</i> centered.</li> <li>Currently it seems to occur in a DLL only. The same login dialog is used in regular executables and does not show the problem there (although I believe it did at some time).</li> <li>The edit field is a password edit, the OnChange handler sets an integer field of that form only, there are no other event handlers on that edit field.</li> <li>I added another plain TEdit, which is also the ActiveControl so that it has focus when the form shows (as it was with the password edit). I also removed the default text "Edit1". Now the issue is present in that TEdit in the same way.</li> <li>The "centered" caret goes back to normal if either a character is entered or if I tab through the controls - when I come back to the TEdit it looks normal. This was the same with the password edit.</li></p>
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    1. COCan you provide us with the relevant pieces of the pas and dfm files?
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