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Delphi has for a while contained two classes that simplify stream compression: TZCompressionStream TZDecompressionStream I had not used them before and when I tried to use them now to compress and decompress some binary data… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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Just in case we are not the only ones still using Samba with an NT domain: Windows Update KB5028166 which will automatically be installed on Windows 10 today, breaks compatibility with that domain type. After… … Read more
2 years ago in windows, Windows 100
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This is mostly for me so I can look it up again later: JPEG XL is a new (for appropriate definitions of “new”) picture compression algorithm (and much more). One very interesting option is to… … Read more
2 years ago in none0
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Note to self: mORMot2 contains an interface unit for the 7zip DLL: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/blob/master/src/lib/mormot.lib.win7zip.pas … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0
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Just in case anybody was using Twitter to follow my blog: As of today, the API I was using to post to Twitter is no longer available. So my blog posts won’t be shared there… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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I have been using the SyntaxHighlighter Evolved WordPress plugin by Alex Mills for several years. Today I wanted to look up something on the plugin’s homepage and was wondering why there are so many spam… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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I had some bad experience with the hosted SVN repositories of my open source projects (first with SourceForge, now with OSDN) so I decided to sync all of them to a local, read only copy… … Read more
2 years ago in SCM, subversion0
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I have just released version 0.0.6 of my Denkzettel Companion tool. It is available from OSDN. This version fixes several bugs regarding the file format. I didn’t realize that Denkzettel uses UTF-8 encoding and also… … Read more
2 years ago in Denkzettel0
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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 Delphi0
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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, dzMdbViewer0
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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 11 version is no longer in Beta state. There are even… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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I added the ActivityPub plugin to my WordPress installation a while ago and was wondering why it didn’t seem to work. Today I discovered an ActivtyPub warning on the Site Health Status page saying …… … Read more
2 years ago in Blog0
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Note to self: Setting a form’s bounds can move the form to a different monitor. If that monitor has a different DPI than the one the form was originally on, this will cause a WM_DPICHANGED… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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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 Delphi0
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I’m posting this here So I can look it up later in case I forget it again: Some Delphi versions (I know about Delphi 2007 and earlier, not sure when it was fixed) have got… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi0