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Some Delphi libraries and ideas you should take a look at (link clearance)
There are a couple of very interesting libraries and ideas every Delphi developer should take a look at. The list is far from complete, but should give you a good overview on what more recent Delphi...
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autoscrolling memo in delphi – Stack Overflow
Just found this great answer by vcldeveloper to autoscroll a readonly logging memo in Delphi which works from Delphi 1 and up (: For such a simple task, you don’t need to buy a commercial component!...
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More Old Micro Cornucopia issues on BitSavers from 1987 and 1988
Last quarter, 11 issues of Micro Cornucopia appeared on BitSavers including the final May 1990 issue. This month, another 7 issues appeared, most of which cover a form of Pascal in one or more of the...
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Pascal/Delphi parsers and grammars
A few interesting links for my archive: fcl-passrc – Free Pascal wiki. (some classes for parsing Free Pascal, which is a lot like Delphi) Syntax sample. (Delphi 2009 grammar) Looking for a Complete...
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Delphi + ADO + dBase – Stack Overflow
For my research queue: I should look at the below ConnectionStrings to access dBase with ADO from Delphi, If I ever need to do that. Thanks Cromulent for asking, Nelson for editing and Pieter for...
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Reminder to self: you cannot repeatedly draw anti-aliased text without...
A small duh moment when I found this out myself the hard way: when repeatedly drawing anti-aliased text, it will alter the background on each draw. So you cannot do that. Not in Delphi, not in .NET,...
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delphi – How to simulate Windows Theme behaviour when TComboBox uses...
Some notes if I ever want to do something like this. In this case I worked around it by having the Items include different text (since I had object pointers in the TStrings anyway) so I could stick to...
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Some links to articles on how COM and LPT ports are stored in the registry
Link clearance, mostly centered around “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Ports” and “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices“:...
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CodePage 0 is CP_ACP, the default Ansi CodePage on a system, you can change...
You might think the below question on CodePage zero is Delphi related, but most of it is not. It is about CP_ACP (the currently Active CodePage, and has some interesting observations: It can vary...
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Delphi static class methods are assignment compatible with plain old function...
So I won’t forget, as the static in different languages varies in meaning: Static on class methods makes them assignment compatible with plain old function pointers. Thanks Moritz Beutel for initially...
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Delphi: Thomas Mueller is fast – experimental GExperts + code formatter for...
Thomas Mueller is fast: experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4 « twm’s blog. –jeroen Filed under: Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development
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FMX is not a VCL replacement
This is more elaborate English version of a short Dutch message I recently sent to explain the differences between VCL and FMX: Do not regard FMX as a replacement for VCL: they are different kinds of...
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Some Delphi & C#/.NET links on XML related stuff
for my link archive: From Zero To One » SimpleStorage. omnixml – Simple way to use XML in Delphi – Google Project Hosting. XPath Visualizer. xml – Using Xpath With Default Namespace in C# – Stack...
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What programmers font (monospaced!) do you like best?
Lucida Console Sample (thanks Wikimedia!) I’m in search to see if there is a better programmers font than the monospaced Lucida Console mainly to be used in Visual Studio, Delphi, the Windows console,...
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Time for a golden oldie: Pragmatic Software Development Tips
From the century start era of The Pragmatic Bookshelf | The Pragmatic Programmer, a - still valid – list of Pragmatic Software Development Tips. From Care About Your Craft, via DRY, Some Things Are...
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A few notes on Delphi, WSDL and SOAP: passing nil values, Document/Literal...
I had some notes on Delphi WSDL and SOAP peculiarities somewhere, but I misplaced them. Luckily, I found some links that explain most of my notes well: Passing nil values for simple types As of Delphi...
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Don’t pass interfaces between application architectures over a DLL boundary
It is unwise to pass objects allocated in one framework over a DLL boundary to a different framework. In the case of Using C dll in delphi return nothing, someone tries to pass an Interface to some...
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Windows Message Loop and Application Reentrancy
One of the things you must be careful with is reentrancy in your application through a message loop. The most obvious way is Application.ProcessMessages: it will loop until all messages from the...
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DataSnap in the Cloud – DelphiFeeds.com
On my research list (Thanks Uwe!): DataSnap in the Cloud – DelphiFeeds.com. It shows you how to do DataSnap from the Azure clound, including getting some of the default Delphi database demos to work on...
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On my research list: Distinguishing USB devices
So I won’t forget: delphi – How to distinguish flash drives? – Stack Overflow. In that answer, Dan C talks about VID / PID (Vendor ID and Product ID) and how to get some of the serials without WMI....
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