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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
8 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
8 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
8 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
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I tend to make typos in the log messages to SubVersion commits and it is always embarrassing when I later come across these typos. Svn can be configured to allow changing log messages by adding… … Read more
8 months ago in linux, SSH, subversion, TortoiseSVN0
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I wrote about autocompletion for TEdits before here, here and here. My dzlib contains several helper functions to add TEdit-autocompletion for directories, files (with a filter) and generic strings from a string list. All of… … Read more
9 months ago in Delphi, dzLib0
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I wanted to try Proxmox VE on one of the BMAX B6 mini PCs we recently bought – the ones which turned out to not meet the Windows 11 minimum requirements – and ran into… … Read more
10 months ago in linux, Proxmox0
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You would think that if you buy a computer that comes preinstalled with Windows 11 it would satisfy the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. Well, think again. We recently bought two BMAX B6 Power… … Read more
10 months ago in windows, Windows 110
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I just had the need for a safer version of Delphi’s GetEnumName, which checks whether the enum value passed to it is actually valid. This is what I came up with: // P must point… … Read more
10 months ago in Delphi0
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I just released dzBdsLauncher 1.0.13. If it detects more than one possible Delphi version from the available project information it now checks which of them are installed if only one is installed, it starts this… … Read more
10 months ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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I just released dzBdsLauncher 1.0.12. It now shows an error message, if it is called with a .dpr file parameter but cannot find a corresponding .dproj, .bdsproj or .dof file. … Read more
10 months ago in Delphi, dzBdsLauncher0
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In my previous post An improved Abstract Error Handler for Delphi I claimed there was a change in the Delphi RTL between Delphi 10.1 and 10.2. I have no idea why my tests looked like… … Read more
11 months ago in Delphi0
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NOTE: The original blog post was wrong in one point: The change happened in Delphi XE2, not 10.2. I have now updated this and also adapted the conditional compilation in u_dzAbstractHandler. I should also mention,… … Read more
11 months ago in Delphi, dzLib0
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GetIt is the package manager built into the Delphi IDE. It can be used in Online and Offline mode. If you installed Delphi from an ISO, GetIt was left in Offline mode. That has some… … Read more
11 months ago in Delphi0
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I have spent several days now to try and fix the remaining bugs in GExperts that are related to highDPI. I think I nailed most of them but unfortunately I can’t be sure because the… … Read more
11 months ago in Delphi, GExperts0