Delphi: Create a form «by hand»

Question

I write the module:

unit Unit2;
interface
uses Forms;
type
  TForm2 = class(TForm)
  end;
implementation
end.

In the button OnClick handler I write:

with TForm2.Create(Self) do
try
  ShowModal;
finally
  Free;
end;

Pressing the button throws exception:

Resource TForm2 not found

Is it possible to somehow (maybe a hack) to create forms entirely «by hand», without involvement of the mechanism of saving of forms properties in resources???

Answer 1

I've not tried this myself, but from what I've read, there are a couple of approaches:

• Don't inherit from TForm, as in this answer
• Use CreateNew, as in this answer