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VOTEFrom Delphi 1: Type Compatibility and Identity
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A feature overlooked by many Delphi programmer was already introduced in Delphi 1 which is more or less the same as in the Delphi 2007 documentation at [WayBack] Type Compatibility and Identity. There is a… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi – The use of AlignAttribute: indicate the alignment of a field
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Great answer by Stefan Glienke at [WayBack] What’s the use of AlignAttribute? The documentation only says Internal use only. – 丽丽乌克 – Google+: It forces the element it annotates to be aligned like specified –… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi XE6 .. 10.1 Berlin truncating non-VCL-control texts to 256 characters when styled
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As of Delphi XE6, the VCL also styles non-VCL controls, but this truncates the texts to 256 characters, for instance in non-balloon hints. This is fixed in Delphi 10.2 Berlin, by making the buffer dynamic… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows Development
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Can we truly assert that an array returned from a function is always a true copy?
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The answer is no: [WayBack] Hi all, Can we truly assert that an array returned from a function is always a new true copy and that this is guaranteed to not change in between compil…… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor…
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A nice thread with examples of all the things you should not do with the Delphi reintroduce keyword: [WayBack] Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor Destroy(); reintroduce; overload; In our… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi: TInvokableClassRegistryHelper.GetInterfaceNamespace as the opposite of TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface
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A while ago, I needed the opposite of InvRegistry.RegisterInterface(TypeInfo(MySoapInterfacePortType, ‘urn:myURN’, ‘utf-8’);, so instead of registering an interface with a namespace URN, obtain the URN by passing the interface inverting [WayBack] TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface. This is the class… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development
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FireDAC can do DBMS back-end conditional SQL via Conditional Substitution
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Though the field-types mentioned in the problem and solution are equal (so either is wrong), the solution in [WayBack] I have a little problem with FireDAC and the TStringField and TWideStringField design time generation… – Juan… … Read more
4 years ago in Database Development, Delphi, Development, Firebird, InterBase, Software Development, SQL, SQL Server
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GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results
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Given a Delphi build-VM with enough CPU cores to run many builds in parallel: [WayBack] GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results. Much more on this at [WayBack] The Delphi Geek: Introducing MultiBuilder…. … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Using Delphi for jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog
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To prevent a screen-saver from kicking in [WayBack] jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog: My solution then is this procedure: procedure JiggleMouse; var Inpt: TInput; begin Inpt.Itype := INPUT_MOUSE; Inpt.mi.dx := 0; Inpt.mi.dy := 0;… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, windows
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Delphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow
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For my link archive: [WayBack] Delphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow –jeroen … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development, XML/XSD
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Reminder to self: iocp-delphi/ThreadPool.pas at master · tondrej/iocp-delphi · GitHub
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If I ever need a thread pool in Delphi, then I need to look at this class: [WayBack] iocp-delphi/ThreadPool.pas at master · tondrej/iocp-delphi · GitHub. Via: [WayBack] Don’t lose time with a known Delphi bug affecting TParallel.Join… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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FreePascal downloads I used to get Web Service Toolkit to compile since the Delphi WSDL importer has braindead include support
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The Delphi WSDL importer maintenance has been in dormant mode for a long while, which means it still barfs on WSDL include directives. In the day and age of REST and gRPC, I don’t think… … Read more
4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Keep Your Project Files Clean With Project Magician – The Art of Delphi Programming
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Reminder to self to install this to more than just the main dev VM as it combines DProjNormalizer and DProjSplitter, then adds a few more features: [WayBack] Keep Your Project Files Clean With Project Magician –… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi – tools to generate class diagrams/hierarchy from source code
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I know ModelMaker Tools could do this: [WayBack] Quick Question … are there any good tools available to generate class diagrams / hierarchy from existing code? Or doesn’t anyone do that anymore ? – Stefaan… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Fl Ko: Getting the pixel position of the current editor cursor position for an OTA wizard
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Since WayBack cannot save G+ photos, here is one from [WayBack] So, now I’m in front of a problem similar to a former one: I need to get the pixel position of the current editor… … Read more
4 years ago in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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