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The venerable Delphi IDE extension GExperts is about to undergo a revolutionary transformation, with plans announced to completely rewrite it using artificial intelligence and simultaneously port it to COBOL. This unexpected development marks a significant… … Read more
22 hours ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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With my particular monitor setup, the Desktop feature of the Delphi 11 and 12 IDE does not work correctly. The Startup Desktop is not restored as I saved it, on my high def monitor on… … Read more
2 weeks ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Today I turned on a laptop computer with Windows 10 Home, which I had not used for a long time. Of course it had to install quite a few Windows Updates, so I let it… … Read more
1 month ago in windows, Windows 100
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Some Delphi IDE versions have an annoying bug with the toolbars that makes them unusable if you customize them. If you have seen this problem, you know it, if not, congratulations! Unfortunately I am one… … Read more
3 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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They say that documentation is the worst part of programming and I mostly agree with that. Nevertheless I have taken the time to add a page about the Uses Clause Manager expert to the GExperts… … Read more
4 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Note to self: Sometimes it is necessary to destroy not just a single but multiple ZFS snapshots. This can be done with some command line magic, but the zfs destroy subcommand has built in functionality… … Read more
5 months ago in linux, zfs0
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Jim McKeeth has updated the GExperts documentation a bit. It’s far from finished but that’s better than the totally outdated one on gexperts.org. I have now exported it as webhelp and checked it in to… … Read more
5 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Ich bin seit einiger Zeit ein großer Fan von ZFS und sammle immer wieder mal Links zu dem Thema. Es gibt einen Blog-Post ZFS Snapshots und Samba Shadow Copy (auf Deutsch) von Manfred Larcher, den… … Read more
6 months ago in linux, zfs0
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If you are a Delphi developer and are not using the full FastMM memory manager (either the free version 4 or the commercial version 5) you really should try it. The limited FastMM version, that… … Read more
6 months ago in Delphi0
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Note to self: The command to get connection information for a (Linux based) Samba server is smbstatus. It needs root privileges. e.g. … Read more
6 months ago in linux, Samba0
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The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8) and even the Delphi 12 version is no longer in Beta state. I hope we… … Read more
7 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Jim McKeeth is going to hold a Webinar Essential Delphi: GExperts on 2024-08-28. I’ll try to join if I find the time (it’s scheduled for 17:00 CEST (15:00 UTC), so I might just make it.)… … Read more
7 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Michael Höfmann has written an additional CodeInsightExpert (in German) that can be added to GExperts and supports the writing of CodeInsight compatible comments in Delphi 12 (Athens). The source code is in his repository on… … Read more
7 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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The Grep Results window (and several other windows) can be docked to the IDE. To allow that GExperts does not save their positions and size but lets the IDE do that, which means these settings… … Read more
7 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Unfortunately version 1.0.13 of dzBdsLauncher had a bug when called with a Delphi 2007 .dproj file: It correctly detected (or rather assumed) Delphi 2007 but then said it could not detect the Delphi version. That… … Read more
8 months ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0