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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 years ago in Delphi, GExperts0
jpluimers
As I one day likely need to pas a dynamically created array of const from scratch (which behind the scenes actually is an array of TVarRec, where each element is, TVarRec which is a variant record that… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
Reminder to self: check my own build configurations as there is a difference for Delphi 2007 and Delphi >= 2009: [WayBack] Specifying the msbuild configuration for a Delphi project on the commandline – twm’s blog. Thomas… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
Rodrigo
Hi guys, I just uploaded a new version of DITE with support for RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney The themes now are imported into the RAD Studio registry and recognized by the IDE. Looking for the installer? Check… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi0
GunSmoker
We are pleased to announce the availability of support for RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney in EurekaLog. EurekaLog is a tool for Delphi and C++Builder that gives your application the power to catch every exception and… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, EL 7.x, Releases0