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VOTEDelphi: get timestamp as ISO8601 string for use in filenames
jpluimers
On Windows, filenames do not like some characters (including : and +), so this is a quick way to get a timestamp into ISO8601 format that is compatible with filenames. TimeStamp := Now(); StartIso8601String := DateToISO8601(TimeStamp,… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Class methods in Record vs Class in Delphi 2010 – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
A still relevant part for [WayBack] Class methods in Record vs Class in Delphi 2010+ – Stack Overflow is the distinction between class methods on both: on classes they can be either regular (no extra keyword),… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi and conditional compilation
jpluimers
There are various ways for Delphi code to verify what features are available. Historically, testing for the existence of VER### defines with $IFDEF or $IFNDEF is the oldest means, and as of Delphi 6, you… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Reminder to self: find open source tool that strips TDS / TD32 debug information from EXE
jpluimers
There is StripTDS from SmartBear, but it is not open source or downloadable without their full product install. So either find an open source tool that can strip TDS / TD32 symbol information from EXE… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Unicode is hard, also for the Delphi compiler and IDE
jpluimers
The Delphi compiler does not see a unicode non-breaking space (0x00A0 as whitespace, and the Delphi IDE does not warn you about it: [WayBack] Delphi revelations #2 – Space characters are not just space characters…. … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Unicode
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Delphi icons to distinguish various Delphi versions
jpluimers
When installing many Delphi versions, all have similar icons. So I asked this a while ago: [WayBack] I remember someone creating version specific icons for Delphi a while ago (around XE4 era I think), but… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Reverse engineering Delphi and Turbo Pascal unit interfaces (and maybe DCP files too)
jpluimers
Boy, I wish there was both an Embarcadero sanctioned grammar (see Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow) and a DCU parser. This might work for DCP files as well, since the PKX0… … Read more
4 years ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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From Delphi 1: Type Compatibility and Identity
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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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Flutter for Windows
Brad
The Alpha of Flutter for Windows is out. I think it will be a game changer for two reasons. Developing for Windows will be easier, Microsoft has let the Windows…Continue readingFlutter for Windows … Read more
4 years ago in Development, flutter
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Delphi XE6 .. 10.1 Berlin truncating non-VCL-control texts to 256 characters when styled
jpluimers
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?
jpluimers
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…
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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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