jpluimers
Reminder to self for checking if this still fails: [WayBack] Bogus W1036 ? Documentation: … “If you do not explicitly initialize a global variab… – Stefan Glienke – Google+ Documentation: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Variables_(Delphi) “If you do not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
dummzeuch
Just in case I ever need this again: (Delphi 2007 does not have IntToHex for UInt64.) Note: This works only for 32 bit compilers. For 64 bit, you must replace UInt32 with NativeUInt (or UInt64)… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
Jim McKeeth
Over the years I’ve heard a lot of reasons or excuses people don’t use Delphi. I’ve collected the thirteen best reasons here. 1. Want to Write More Code – Delphi requires less code to accomplish… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, humor, list, News, sarcasm0
Larry Hengen
I was so excited when I read Frank’s post today about DevExpress offering a FMX grid control. So I went to download it, only to discover that in order to get the CTP release, an… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
jpluimers
Delphi does indeed so some type inference as Primoz found out below. It has been doing this for a long time, improved over time, but has a long road ahead. One odd thing is that… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
Warning: I posted this without doing a proper copyright check on the linked github repository, and it looks like this library heavily copies code from copyrighted materials. So better not use them, for one because… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
Erik van Bilsen
Delphi 10.4 introduced Custom Managed Records. In this post we show how you can use this new language feature to wrap third party C(++) APIs in an easy to use model. We also compare this… … Read more
4 years ago in C++, Delphi, Libraries, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized0
dummzeuch
We recently bought TeeChart 2020.30 VCL/FMX with full source code (of course) and I now tried to install it. Steema provides a “TeeChart Source Code Recompilation Tool” (TeeRecompile.exe) that supposedly does this for you. This… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi0
jpluimers
On my todo list, as Synops is updated more often than JCL: [WayBack] The logging facility in Synopse seems to be an interesting alternative to JclDebug: According to this StackOverflow answer, one of its features… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
dummzeuch
I my last GExperts related blog post I wrote about the new “Close Exception Notification” expert which I just had added to GExperts. It was a hack that hooked the Exception Notification dialog. This spawned… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
Dalija Prasnikar
This story begins with the FreeAndNil procedure, why its signature could not have a typed var parameter, why we can only pass variables declared as TObject to such procedures, and why the compiler refuses to… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, FreeAndNil, Parameters0
jpluimers
Since GetIt is hardly, if at all documented, but has quite a few of problems, I will likely need to use this another time: [WayBack] delphi – How to reset the download when the GetIt… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
dummzeuch
I got into programming because I am lazy, I’d rather have the computer do the boring work than doing it myself. So it’s no wonder that I always liked Delphi and GExperts because both support… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
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jpluimers
Reminder to self for checking if this still fails: [WayBack] Bogus W1036 ? Documentation: … “If you do not explicitly initialize a global variab… – Stefan Glienke – Google+ Documentation: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/Variables_(Delphi) “If you do not… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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