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Apparently there has been a change in Thunderbird 68 so it no longer displays text attachments inline even though View -> Display Attachements Inline is turned on. There is a solution to this though: Open… … Read more
4 years ago in thunderbird0
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I got into programming because I am lazy, I’d rather have the computer do the boring work than doing it myself. So it’s no wonder that I always liked Delphi and GExperts because both support… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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Apparently the bug that causes the Delphi IDE to not store its position correctly when placed in full screen on a secondary monitor to the left of the primary monitor (which is my setup at… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
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I have updated my Delphi IDE explorer expert to work with Delphi 10.4. The bugfix for the Follow Focus function in Delphi 10.3 still works. … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, DelphiIdeExplorer0
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I revisited my dzBdsLauncher tool again – no idea why, it just occurred to me 😉 – and added quite a few improvements: It now supports .dof (Delphi 6 and 7) and .bdsproj (Delphi 2005… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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David Hoyle just blogged about Adding Menu Items to the IDE Editor’s Context Menu. As always his article is quite insightful, in particular the last part, because many people forget this: That’s it, all done,… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0
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I just released GExperts 1.3.15 for all supported Delphi versions. There have again been various bug fixes and the following notable changes: There is now a start menu entry for a new stand alone version… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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dzBdsLauncher tries to solve the problem of accidentally opening a Delphi project with the wrong Delphi version. The latest version 1.0.2 now also detects .DPROJ file from Delphi 10.3.3. See the dzBdsLauncher page for details. … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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Edit: There is now a new release. Before you ask: No, there is no new GExperts release yet for Delphi 10.3.3. I haven’t even downloaded it yet. I might get to it this weekend. In… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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This is only relevant, if you have recently compiled your own GExperts DLL and you use the Uses Clause Manager’s Identifier tab: There were several bugs in the unit parsing code that have been fixed…. … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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One frequently asked question that still gets asked today goes like this: “How do I create an array of [component] and fill it with existing [component] instances from the form?” Where [component] usually is TLabel,… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0
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I found a bug in dzPrepBuild that required a new release: If a .dpr file is passed as parameter the ProjectName placeholder would also have that extension. New feature: Placeholder {Release} added. … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, dzPrepBuild0
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I just released version 1.3.3 of dzPrepBuild The reason for this release was that I wanted to allow automatically updating the ProductVersion when the FileVersion changes. In order to do that, the tool now supports… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, dzPrepBuild0
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From the “how could I have missed this feature for so long?” department: GMail can schedule the sending of emails to a freely selectable future date and time. (I have no idea when that feature… … Read more
5 years ago in google0
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Playing around with ImageMagick I found that somebody already wrote a Pascal/Delphi import unit for it called PascalMagick. Unfortunately it has been integrated into freepascal which means Delphi support no longer has any priority. So,… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0