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[WayBack] delphi – Is it possible to define {$IFDEF} for more than one directive at once? – Stack Overflow: use the {$IF Defined(xxx)} directive which allows boolean expressions like: {$IF Defined(xxx) OR Defined(yyy)} {$IF Defined(xxx)… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Delphi 6, Development, Software Development0
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There is very little information on how to use the XMLDoc documentation formatting in your Delphi source code. So here are some links for me to get started: [WayBack] XMLDoc Delphi source code documentation generation… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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For my link archive: [Archive.is] “Delphi” “Data provider or other service returned an E_FAIL status” “NVARCHAR” – Google Search In this case it was while reading data. Cause yet unknown, as over time the error… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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IDEs drive me nuts, including the Delphi IDE. Searching for Margin or Setting only reveals the margin and gutter setting, not the formatter settings. So you have to remember this is in the “Formatter”, especially… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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Do not call SYS.DBMS_SESSION.SET_NLS with an instance of the [Archive.is] TOraStoredProc Class, as under the hood, it will translate the call to this: Class:Ora.TOraStoredProc;Component:sprSetNls;Flag:tfQPrepare,Text:Prepare: begin SYS.DBMS_SESSION.SET_NLS(:PARAM, :VALUE); end; :PARAM(VARCHAR[22],IN)=’NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS’ :VALUE(VARCHAR[4],IN)=”.,” The above is a translation… … Read more
3 years ago in Database Development, Delphi, Development, OracleDB, Software Development0
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I got this when taking over maintenance of some legacy code that called a stored procedure in a : ————————— Debugger Exception Notification ————————— Project LegacyProject.exe raised exception class Exception with message ‘Need Oracle 8… … Read more
3 years ago in Database Development, Delphi, Development, OracleDB, Software Development0
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Since I keep forgetting about this, and there is the Embarcadero documentation for it has had no examples added in Delphi 2007 or later: [WayBack] Delphi Basics : FindCmdLineSwitch command Example code : Saerch the… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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I have been bitten by this a few times too much, so time to write it down: When porting old Delphi code from the Delphi 7 and older era, the options were stored .dof (options)… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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Too bad the whole mechanism involving TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses is not documented anywhere It is the underlying storage to support TClassFinder, which was introduced in Delphi 6, documented on-line in Delphi 2007, documented slightly in Delphi 2009,… … Read more
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development0
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I wnder who maintains [WayBack] GExperts · GitHub: GExperts has 4 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub. It has not been updated for about 5 years, but contains some important bits. –jeroen … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, GExperts, Software Development0
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ODAC version history is confusing wheres [WayBack] Oracle Data Access Components – FAQ talks about version 6.00, [WayBack] Oracle Data Access Components History talks about version 10.x.y. The history page is correct. –jeroen … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
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Quoting this in full because it nicely illustrated the introduction of an intermediate variable that cannot be assigned to a second time after initial setup by the with statement: [WayBack] Embarcadero Newsgroup Archive :: embarcadero.public.delphi.ide… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0