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Getting the command line parameters of an executable

dummzeuch dummzeuch I’m currently trying to reverse engineer a tool that consists of a frontend with a really dreadful GUI and a command line program as backend, which is called by that frontend and does the actual… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi 0

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dzMdbViewer 1.0.4 released

dummzeuch dummzeuch dzMdbViewer is a small tool I wrote, when I was stuck without a MS Access installation but needed to have a look into a .MDB file (and later .ACCDB file, if the Access Database Engine… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, dzMdbViewer 0

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When showing a hint causes an Access Violation

dummzeuch dummzeuch I have just updated my last blog post regarding another effect of the Screen object caching the monitor configuration: Displaying a hint (via standard Delphi VCL functionality) causes an access violation. The solution is again… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi 0

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TdzSpeedBitBtn updated to support scaling

dummzeuch dummzeuch 4 years ago I wrote a helper class TdzSpeedBitBtn which turns a TBitBtn into a TSpeedButton that can have the focus. That helper class has also been used in GExperts (in the Uses Clause Manager… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, dzLib, GExperts 0

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Replacing a failed drive in a zfs pool

dummzeuch dummzeuch So I can look it up later: When a drive that is part of a zfs pool fails and has already been physicall replaced in the server. zpool status looks like this: Logically replacing that… … Read more 2 years ago in linux, zfs 0

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Why renaming a running executable can fail

dummzeuch dummzeuch I always thought that it is not possible to rename an executable that is currently running. Turns out I was wrong (happened before). It works fine for many executables, but not for all of them…. … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, dxgettext 0

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New theme for blog.dummzeuch.de

dummzeuch dummzeuch I had to update the PHP version of my website and this broke the Suffusion theme I was using for the WordPress installation. Unfortunately Suffusion hasn’t been supported by its author for a few years… … Read more 2 years ago in Blog 0

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What does the following Delphi function do?

dummzeuch dummzeuch Still playing around with ChatGPT, I asked it “What does the following Delphi function do?” The Delphi function you posted converts a file size in bytes into a human-readable string format, using binary prefixes (KiB,… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi 0

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I asked ChatGPT what’s wrong with the following Delphi code

dummzeuch dummzeuch Slashdot just posted “What Happens When ChatGPT Can Find Bugs in Computer Code?” which links a PC Mag article with the title “Watch Out, Software Engineers: ChatGPT Is Now Finding, Fixing Bugs in Code” So… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi 0

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New Edit Path expert in GExperts

dummzeuch dummzeuch It has been in the source code for quite a while and some few people and I have tested it, but I didn’t tell anybody else about it: There is a new expert in GExperts… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts 0

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Need help testing a GExperts bugfix

dummzeuch dummzeuch I have just applied patches that are supposed to fix some Unicode issues with Russian characters. These apply to the following editor experts: Expand Macro Template Locate / Move to matching delimiter Previous / Next… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts 0