VCL Root units
Delphi VCL units that are not using any other VCL units: Vcl.Bind.Consts Vcl.Consts Vcl.ComStrs Vcl.HtmlHelpViewer Vcl.IdAntiFreeze Vcl.Imaging.GIFConsts Vcl.Imaging.JConsts Vcl.Imaging.pnglang...
View ArticleAnonymous method do location capturing, so when you expect value capturing...
Interesting read [WayBack] Mysterious Case Of Wrong Value. In order to capture by value (which in C++ you can specify), you need an intermediate function like Dalija describes: function...
View ArticleTo celebrate his 85th birthday, some links to interviews with Niklaus Wirth...
Today, Niklaus Wirth, “father” of The Pascal Programming Language turned 85. Happy birthday! Almost 50 years ago, Niklaus Wirth submitted his famous paper “The Programming Language Pascal” which was...
View ArticleDelphi component to show some text file at design time
Interesting idea: [WayBack] Delphi component to show some text file at design time Via: [WayBack] On some projects I put an invisible TMemo on the main form to keep notes about things todo…is there any...
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cdecl: C gibberish ↔ English
Cool site if I ever need to decipher C declarations again: [WayBack] cdecl: C gibberish English. You can even store the C code as a URL. via: [WayBack] can someone explain me the C syntax below (from...
View ArticleBreaking in the Delphi debugger without a breakpoint
You can fire a debugger breakpoint using either of these two: asm int 3 end which is the x86 debug interrupt DebugBreak() which is the Windows API function wrapping the above interrupt I’m not sure how...
View ArticleApplication shutdown: wait for all threads to terminate or not?
A while ago, I ran into a problem that an anonymous thread would run longer than the main thread of the application. This caused all sorts of trouble, so in this case I decided to fix it for that...
View ArticleThomas Mueller has started to write some documentation on the internal...
From a while ago, for my link archive: [WayBack] I have started to write some documentation on the internal workings of GExperts. For now, it covers only a very small part of the IDE form enhancement…...
View ArticleAny opinion on RAD Server vs Node.js/LoopBack vs TMS XData vs other?
Interesting thread still: [WayBack] Any opinion on RAD Server vs Node.js/LoopBack vs TMS XData vs other? – Kyle Miller – Google+ Tools mentioned there (not limited to Delphi): From Database to Web App...
View ArticleDid you know? 10.2 Tokyo has introduced 3 new warnings for Delphi compilers:…
Seems I forgot to push the “publish” button on this 2 years ago (: Did you know? 10.2 Tokyo has introduced 3 new warnings for Delphi compilers: Implicit integer cast with potential data loss from...
View ArticleThere can be only MS Office sample automation server wrapper components in...
There are six variations; only one can be active at a time: Delphi Office 2000 Servers Package Delphi Office XP Servers Package Delphi Office 2010 Servers Package C++Builder Office 2000 Servers Package...
View ArticleAnyone who knows about...
It look likes sourceforge.net/p/radstudiodemos/code/HEAD/tree/branches/RADStudio_Rio is gone (though docwiki has more than a couple 100 mentions of [Archive.is] “radstudiodemos” and [Archive.is]...
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My contributions to RAD Studio – Jose León – Medium
For my link archive, as a reminder to check the Sistel JIRA tool, which is an IDE like tool for JIRA: [WayBack] Business Process Studio for JIRA | Sistel He has some very interesting posts at...
View ArticleSmart Pointers code that compiles in FPC and Delphi
Delphi and FPC have different language boundaries, so it is always good to read a thread discussing how to get near-the-edge cases work in both. This case is about Smart Pointers (here called auto...
View ArticleIDE Fix Pack 6.4 for Delphi 2009,XE-10.2 Tokyo and 6.4.1 for Delphi 2010 and...
On my list of things to install soon IDE Fix Pack 6.4 and 6.4.1: [WayBack] IDE Fix Pack 6.4 released – Andy’s Blog and Tools [WayBack] IDE Fix Pack 6.4.1 (only 10.3 without Update 1 and Delphi 2010) –...
View ArticleLink archive: to investigate – Classic compiler (Win32) strings double-free...
For my link archige: [WayBack] Classic compiler (Win32) strings double-free crash because of error in reference-counting. Tested with XE2 and 10.1 Berlin Test applications: https://g… – Arioch The –...
View Articledelphi – Why was TDataSource created originally? – Stack Overflow
From a while ago [WayBack] delphi – Why was TDataSource created originally? – Stack Overflow 5down voteaccepted It is all about decoupling and indirection. And with TDataSource there are two kinds of...
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Are these really Windows compiler unsupported Delphi Intrinsic Routines?
Odd, the [WayBack/Archive.is] Delphi Intrinsic Routines – RAD Studio indicates quite a few compiler intrinsics are not available on Windows. I wonder if this list is correct: Routine Description DCC32...
View ArticleWhen I ever go and use the Spring4D activator, these are some URLs I need to...
When I ever go and use the Spring4D activator, these are some URLs I need to re-read: Use IInvokable over IInterface to enfore using RTTI [Archive.is] The Dynamic Abstract Factory is so useful but it’s...
View ArticleValue types not having parameterless constructors…
The list below is based on a G+ discussion in a single language, but has way broader aspects. It’s on value types, mutability, parameterless constructors and expectations of compiled code. I’ve bitten...
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