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VOTEDelphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow
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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
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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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FreePascal downloads I used to get Web Service Toolkit to compile since the Delphi WSDL importer has braindead include support
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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
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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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Delphi – tools to generate class diagrams/hierarchy from source code
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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
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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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Mike Versteeg tried getting Hi-DPI to work in Delphi 10.2
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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
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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Delphi consensus: interface implementing classes expose methods at private or protected level.
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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
4 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…
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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
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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“Fatal: F1027 Unit not found: ‘System.pas’ or binary equivalents (.dcu)”
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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
4 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
4 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
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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
4 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
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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
4 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
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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
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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In the series “avoid Variants when coding in Delphi”: the comparison operator
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For Variant types, the = comparison operator in Delphi maps to the VarCompareValue in the Variants unit. That function fails to handle various comparisons and for some it knows it can handle raises a VarInvalidOp through… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development
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