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Note to self: In order to allow changes to the author of an svn commit, the pre-revprop-change hook of the repository must be changed like this: Insert the line just below the existing, similar line… … Read more
4 years ago in linux, TortoiseSVN0
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Even after Microsoft abandoned the stupid idea of the Windows 8 start screen and gave us back the start menu in Windows 10 there is still a lot to desire. Of course you can replace… … Read more
4 years ago in windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8.10
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The following code looks innocuous but slows down a program significantly: Yes it’s Quicksort and it sorts strings in a TCheckListBox’s Items property, swapping not only the strings but also the objects and the Checked… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I never understood the benefit of writing the ExplicitLeft / Top / Width / Height properties for TControl and descendants, which were added in Delphi 2007, to the dfm files. They store the control’s position… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Tired of answering the same questions over and over again, I have just added a GExperts frequently asked questions page. There is also a link to that page in the menu. … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Somebody just asked me whether there is a simple way to migrate GExperts settings from Delphi XE7 to a new version. The short answer is: No, but some experts (or rather: some functionality, because not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Joining in on the black Friday craze I am hereby offering a 90% discount on GExperts. Valid indefinitely. You only need to compile it yourself. (Sorry, could not resist. 😉 ) … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Tired of all those programs which install lots of additional stuff I have been using more and more so called “Portable Apps”. “Portable” in this context means: You can put them anywhere, even on a… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
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I have been using WordPress for this blog for several years and always thought my setup was reasonably secure. Turns out that there is something called the WordPress REST API which allows to get quite… … Read more
4 years ago in Blog0
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Guess what? The new GExperts release is here. There are lots of bug fixes and a few new features in the new version. The major new feature is the Filter Exceptions expert. Please be warned… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Many open source projects have moved from the former top dog SlashdotSourceForge to GitHub and in the process usually converted from Subversion to git. This also includes quite a few Delphi libraries like project Jedi… … Read more
5 years ago in git, github, TortoiseSVN0
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Mahdi Safsafi has proposed a fix for the bug in the GExperts Filter Exceptions expert, which occurs when developing for non Windows targets (first reported on Embarcadero’s quality portal ). I have implemented this fix… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Andreas Hausladen – most probably know him because he wrote the very popular Delphi IDE Fixpack – has just announced (in German) that he published the source code of one of his other useful tools:… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0
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I have received a few reports about bugs in GExperts in Delphi 10.4.1 that do not occur in Delphi 10.4. Here is a GExperts DLL that was compiled with Delphi 10.4.1. Maybe it will solve… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Recent versions of Delphi (for a suitable definition of “recent”) come with a TZipFile class implemented in the unit System.Zip. This class has the really neat feature that it can not only read the contents… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0