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VOTEOn my research list: Delphi “Package Cache” subtree
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On one of the sites, when having some Delphi package registration issues, the standard measure was to delete the complete Package Cache subtree (like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\17.0\Package Cache). Since there is so little information about it, it is… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi
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Delphi debugging tip: keep an eye on a object field of an object that will go out of scope eventually
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Every once in a while you want to have a Delphi Watch of a field inside an object (say an object of type TContext), except that the field has no value yet, but eventually will point… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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If you use an implementation of TNonRefCountInterfacedObject, then document in the descendants how lifetime management is arranged for
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There are a few TNonRefCountInterfacedObject (or maybe better named TNonReferenceCountedInterfacedObject) implementations around (see list of links below). They can be used to expose interfaces, but do not provide interface reference counting. This means you have… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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grep for Delphi .dproj file containing copy commands for certain DLLs
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I always forget the syntax, so this quick grep helps me finding the lines in Delphi .dproj files that have the right copy statements for getting certain DLLs in the output directory. Those are very… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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The Indy unit `IdObjs` got removed after Delphi 2007
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I came across some very old code that used the IdObjs unit as it was depending on the TIdStringStream type. Digging around, I found the unit has been removed from Indy after the Delphi 2007 era. If… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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GitHub – pierrejean-coudert/delphi-libraries-list: List of Delphi Libraries and Frameworks
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For my link archive: [WayBack] GitHub – pierrejean-coudert/delphi-libraries-list: List of Delphi Libraries and Frameworks –jeroen … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi TVirtualMethodInterceptor like magic: some links of useful stuff made with it
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I think TVirtualMethodInterceptor is a really nice things added to Delphi XE: it allows you to overwrite virtual methods of a class. Since the documentation from that era cannot be saved in the WayBack machine, here… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Debugging a Delphi – Format and Pointers/Hex Values (Memory Overwrite) – Stack Overflow
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A long time ago (Delphi XE2 era), David Dubois and I helped out Doug find either the cause or a workaround of a memory overwrite in a 32-bit application. The problem was that a call… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Named Pipes unit for Delphi | Mick’s Mix
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[WayBack] Named Pipes unit for Delphi | Mick’s Mix by Russell Libby, for which (Apr 7, 2013) Francoise Piette has updated this source code for Delphi XE3 and put it on his website at [WayBack] OverByte – Blog… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Want to use SmartPointers in Delphi? Use the Spring4D one: it is unit tested and optimised
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A while ago, there was a nice discussion on smart pointers at [WayBack] Smart Pointers – Generics vrs non-generic implementastion – RTL and Delphi Object Pascal – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]. Conclusion from that: many people think that… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Spring4D
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IDEIds11…IDEIds21 – RAD Studio
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It looks like there are pages [WayBack] IDEIds21 – RAD Studio … [WayBack] IDEIds21 – RAD Studio. Maybe I ever find time to find out where they are referenced from and why there is no IDEIds1… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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It pays to closely look to your coding
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I like questions like [WayBack] How to check if parent menu item has “checked” child item? – VCL – Delphi-PRAXiS [en] It means that the asker is closely looking at her or his coding. This… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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A garbage collector for C and C++ (and a wrapper for Delphi): The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector
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I bumped into [WayBack] A garbage collector for C and C++ a while ago, for which the source is at [WayBack] GitHub – ivmai/bdwgc: The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative C/C++ Garbage Collector (libgc, bdwgc, boehm-gc). There is a (very old!)… … Read more
4 years ago in C++, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi processing all Windows messages
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Since I had captures messages inside the main message loop, I forgot it is straightforward: create a [WayBack] TApplicationEvents instance, then use the [WayBack] OnMessage event and hook it to a method like procedure TMainForm.ApplicationEventsMessage(var Msg: TMsg; var… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Why does my Android application, compiled with development tool XXX version YYY, no longer work?
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Still relevant, not limited to Delphi, though other environments often have a better warning system in place: [WayBack] Why does my Android application, compiled with Delphi Rio, no longer work?. TL;DR: over time, Android and… … Read more
4 years ago in android, Delphi, Development, Mobile Development, Software Development
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