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VOTEDelphi 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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GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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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Flutter and Firebase Versions
bradintheusa
I love working with flutter but the firebase packages and versioning is messy. I can see that it’s getting better but these errors are painful. FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Build… … Read more
4 years ago in Development, flutter
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FreePascal downloads I used to get Web Service Toolkit to compile since the Delphi WSDL importer has braindead include support
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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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Flutter Packages Not Upgrading
bradintheusa
If you have updated you Flutter code code but when debugging you are still using the older version of the code you should check your import statements. import ‘package:roster/lib/roster.dart’; import ‘lib/roster.dart’; Referencing the same package… … Read more
4 years ago in Development
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Delphi – tools to generate class diagrams/hierarchy from source code
jpluimers
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
jpluimers
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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