Story Category: Development
VOTEFlutter 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 years ago in C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, Software Development
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App store screenshots for free and easy
bradintheusa
Yes there are a lot of services to make App Store screen shots, many are even good and some well worth paying for. Finding the right one can take time and then updating your app… … Read more
5 years ago in Development
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Mike Versteeg tried getting Hi-DPI to work in Delphi 10.2
jpluimers
Wondering how far Mike Versteeg has gotten in the mean time with the newer versions of Delphi that have come up: [WayBack] I’m having a go at multi monitor high DPI support for my styled… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi consensus: interface implementing classes expose methods at private or protected level.
jpluimers
Interesting consensus at which is very similar to my experience: [WayBack] I’ve inherited a project and the developer uses lots of interfaces (All good here!). Then when they develop the interfaced classes, the methods from… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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What’s the piece of Delphi knowledge you find yourself looking up over and over again…
jpluimers
From an interesting thread at [WayBack] What’s the piece of Delphi knowledge you find yourself looking up over and over again? For me format strings is probably the thing that most stubbornly… – Lachlan Gemmell… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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“Fatal: F1027 Unit not found: ‘System.pas’ or binary equivalents (.dcu)”
jpluimers
If you ever get a “Fatal: F1027 Unit not found: ‘System.pas’ or binary equivalents (.dcu)” – Google Search, then it is likely because you: build from a script build use a user that has never ran… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Spring4D – Shared, Weak references
jpluimers
In addition to Shared/IShared, there is also Weak/IWeakReference in Spring.pas; these blog post explain more about them: Shared/IShared (search for {$REGION ‘Shared smart pointer’} at the current repository): [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: Smart pointers in Delphi Weak/IWeakReference (search for… … Read more
5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi unit aliases: multiple ones can point to the same unit
jpluimers
A while ago, I had to figure out how to get some GExperts stuff cross-compile to older Delphi versions, because of UITypes usage that is not available in Delphi XE and lower (but much of… … Read more
5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, GExperts, Software Development
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Don’t use the TPL as it still has rough edges in unsuspected places
jpluimers
A few posts on why not to use the TPL and be very careful with regular RTL threading code: [WayBack] Ondrej Kelle – Google+ [WayBack] Delphi To Go: Don’t lose time with a known Delphi… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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TMonitor versus Critical sections revisited: when possible, use SRWL over TMonitor, then TCritical section
jpluimers
Via [WayBack] TMonitor vrs Critical sections revisited. Back then (https://www.delphitools.info/2013/06/06/tmonitor-vs-trtlcriticalsection/), it was found that critic… – Kiriakos Vlahos – Google+ as he re-did the measurements that DelphiTools did before Delphi XE5 came out: Slim Reader/Writer Lock… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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