To thwart the nit-pickers, let me start with, I searched here with this and could not find an answer, and yes, also I did scroll through the "Similar questions."...
 Adding shortcuts to a TForm

I want to drag and drop some shortcuts from the Desktop to a TForm in my application. I am using Anders Melander's brilliant Drag Drop Suite (DDS).

I tried putting a TImage on the form but the DDS does not drop to an Image so I added a TPanel with a TImage on it. I could then drop on the panel and assign the image to the TImage.Picture. Problem was the Panel has no Transparent Property so the shortcut on the form looks clunky with the visible Panel behind it.

I need to be able to drop to the TImage or make the underlying TPanel transparent.

Can anyone help with code-snippets for either of those options, or better yet, a method of dropping a Shortcut directly on to my Form.

Thanks