Thursday, 22. October 2020
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Microsoft Edge WebView2 general availability!
TMS Software Blog
– Intro Microsoft has recently announced general availability of the WebView2 embedded browser control, part of Microsoft Edge Chromium. https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/10/19/edge-webview2-general-availability/. In this blog post, I want to summarize the steps you can take, to configure your ...
Wednesday, 21. October 2020
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Key Target Platforms Update
Stephen Ball
– I wanted to share some interesting data following a recent presentation looking into Modern Windows development. 75% of Windows Desktops use Windows 10! Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201709-202009 Windows 10 is now used by 3 out ...
Tuesday, 20. October 2020
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Deleaker: memory / resource leak detection and identification
Brian Long
– As I've made clear many times in conference talks I’m a big fan of FastMM4, the full version Delphi’s built-in memory manager (I haven’t yet tried out FastMM5, which is fully rewritten but now has either a GPL or a commercial license). FastMM4 is great for identifying memory leaks, memory ...
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TMS FNC Maps Team Effort (v1.2)
TMS Software Blog
– Team Effort Since the first release we have been working hard and only 4 months after the release, we pushed out an update (v1.1) for TMS FNC Maps with loads of exciting stuff. Now, we are here with another update (v1.2), that brings even more exciting features and a new service. Introducing Apple ...
Monday, 19. October 2020
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Delphi and conditional compilation
The Wiert Corner
– There are various ways for Delphi code to verify what features are available. Historically, testing for the existence of VER### defines with $IFDEF or $IFNDEF is the oldest means, and as of Delphi 6, you can also test for the existence and values of identifiers is $IF defined, $IF not defined and, ...
Saturday, 17. October 2020
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Today Oct 17, tmssoftware.com BV celebrates its 20 year anniversary
TMS Software Blog
– Company foundation On October 17 in the year 2000, the company "tmssoftware.com bvba" was officially founded in Belgium. So, this year 2020, we celebrate on October 17 the 20-year anniversary of the company. After I started developing VCL components in 1995 with the release of Borland Delphi 1, I ...
Friday, 16. October 2020
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Celebrating our 20th anniversary!
TMS Software Blog
– As you may already know, this October we are celebrating our company’s 20th birthday! And of course we want you to celebrate with us. In addition to the current ongoing action of winning a limited edition "TMS FNC Maps hands-on" book, we have another special promotion for you! Get 30% ...
Thursday, 15. October 2020
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Learning New Things - C++ for Absolute Beginners
Glooscap Software
– I have a bit of a preoccupation with new Delphi programming books and have blogged about them a bunch of times. The keen-eyed among you will notice that this is not a Delphi book, but you might recognise the author's name, Slobodan Dmitrović, from the Delphi community. As the title suggests, it's ...
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C++Builder 10.4.1 Event Handler and RTTI Patch
Dr.Bob's Delphi Notes
– Embarcadero has released a C++Builder 10.4.1 Event Handler and RTTI Patch at https://blogs.embarcadero.com/cbuilder-10-4-1-event-handler-and-rtti-patch/ which affects using components written in C++ in the form designer.
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Bold for Delphi is Open Source
Dr.Bob's Delphi Notes
– Bold for Delphi is Open Source
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New GetIt Web Portal
Dr.Bob's Delphi Notes
– Embarcadero has announce a new public facing website, https://getitnow.embarcadero.com that lists the GetIt content for the latest RAD Studio release and allows users to easily navigate the same categories, and filter by product and vendor.
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Reminder to self: find open source tool that strips TDS / TD32 debug information from EXE
The Wiert Corner
– There is StripTDS from SmartBear, but it is not open source or downloadable without their full product install. So either find an open source tool that can strip TDS / TD32 symbol information from EXE files, or make one. Related: TASM and Turbo Debugger had TDSTRIP User’s Guide Borland® ...
Wednesday, 14. October 2020
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Embarcadero Conference Brazil 2020
TMS Software Blog
– O maior evento Delphi do mundo irá acontecer novamente este ano. Mesmo com toda a situação da pandemia do COVID-19, a Embarcadero Conference 2020 irá se realizar no dia 20 de Outubro, em um novo formato, 100% online. Apesar dos participantes perderem algumas coisas que ...
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Unicode is hard, also for the Delphi compiler and IDE
The Wiert Corner
– The Delphi compiler does not see a unicode non-breaking space (0x00A0 as whitespace, and the Delphi IDE does not warn you about it: [WayBack] Delphi revelations #2 – Space characters are not just space characters. Given that this character was introduced in 1993, I wonder how the compiler tests look ...
Monday, 12. October 2020
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Talking About Visual Basic...
RemObjects Blogs
– This past weekend, I had the great honor to join Fellippe on the QB64 Podcast, QB64 Report, to talk about the past and future of BASIC, Elements, and our new currently-in-development Mercury front-end for the compiler, which brings Microsoft's VisualBasic.NET™ language to all of Elements' ...
