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VOTEHappy Delphi 25th anniversary: follow hash tags #Delphi25 and #Delphi25th
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I wish I could have prepared something more substantial for the 25th Delphi birthday. Alas: life has been tough (see below), so please keep an eye on these search terms, hash tags and start posts… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Reminder to self: be aware of implicit setup/tear down code in methods
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If a part of a method requires implicit setup/tear-down code (for instance when using managed types like arrays, strings, etc), especially in rarely taken execution paths, then consider putting that code in a separate method…. … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi desktop settings: .DST naming limitations and content similarity to .DSK files
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Based on [WayBack] Bummer, cannot save a Delphi desktop named “Default Layout – right 3/4” – at load this one seems to be restored, but the list does not contain that entry. – Jeroen Wiert… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Catch Me If You Can: LLVM back-end cannot catch all exceptions
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[WayBack] Catch Me If You Can: the LLVM backend cannot return from a hardware exception (like AV) if the hardware exception is raised directly within a try…except block. It can only safely return if there is a… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next/previous compiler error in the current …
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Via: [WayBack] Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next compiler error in the current source file? – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: Primož Gabrijelčič: Alt-F7, Alt-F8 IIRC And indeed, it is sort… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi Berlin and up without disabled Castalia: Use Ctrl+W to select content in the IDE code editor. Place your curso…
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If you have enough guts to keep Castalia enabled and have Delphi Berlin or higher, then you can use this shortcut: [WayBack] Tip: Use Ctrl+W to select content in the IDE code editor. Place your… … Read more
5 years ago in Castalia, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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The magic Delphi ReturnAddress intrinsic
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I could not find any official place where ReturnAddress is documented even though it is used at quite a few places in the RTL, VCL, FMX and 3rd party libraries like DUnitX, Spring4D, JCL, ReportBuilder, TeeChart. I… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi: Bezier in FMX
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In case I ever need to do some Bezier curve coding in Delphi: [WayBack] GitHub – zhaoyipeng/FMXComponents: Firemonkey Opensource Components Via: [WayBack] Interesting set of components for FireMonkey – Christen Blom-Dahl – Google+ … … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Software Development
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Some ideas on using DataSnap as a data-conversion layer between two systems
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For my link archive as it contains some interesting ideas on how to use DataSnap as a conversion later between two systems: [WayBack] I need to write some DataSnap “middleware” between Google Glass and a… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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OMF, COFF and the 32-bit/64-bit Delphi or C++ compilers
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Via [WayBack] As far as I can tell (and documentation on that is reaaaaaaly hard to find), dcc64 can link in .obj files in OMF and COFF format. Bcc64 uses LLVM chain and therefore produces… … Read more
5 years ago in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Delphi x64, Development, Software Development, Visual Studio C++
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