Thursday, 24. September 2020
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Installing Help and Samples for RAD Studio
Stephen Ball
– The Help and Samples (for both Delphi and C++) are very useful when Programming as they provide quick reference and examples of how to use different language and component features. If you are using the RAD Studio IDE and find that F1 is not opening up the help files, then the most likely answer ...
Wednesday, 23. September 2020
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Embarcadero Open Sourced Bold For for Delphi
Marco's Tech Blog
– This week Embarcadero released the source code of Bold for Delphi, a library popular in the Delphi 7 timeframe, under an MIT license on GitHub. The project is hosted at: https://github.com/Embarcadero/BoldForDelphi There is more information in the official announcement blog post ...
Tuesday, 22. September 2020
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Documenting your Delphi REST API the easy way
TMS Software Blog
– Create documentation is boring. At least that's my opinion, and most developers I know also don't like to write it. But that's something we need to do, of course. Thus, the easiest it gets to document things, the better. Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash With TMS XData, you create your REST ...
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TMS FNC UI Pack v3.2 Revealing some highly anticipated components
TMS Software Blog
– We already have an extensive set of powerful and feature-rich UI controls in our TMS FNC UI Pack. But there is always room for some additional tools to help you with your cross framework and cross platform work. In this new release of our TMS FNC UI Pack we’ve added 5 new components which ...
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Reminder to self: iocp-delphi/ThreadPool.pas at master · tondrej/iocp-delphi · GitHub
The Wiert Corner
– 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 Don’t lose time with a known Delphi bug affecting ...
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Delphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow
The Wiert Corner
– For my link archive: [WayBack] Delphi, soap and wrapping values in cdata – Stack Overflow –jeroen
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Using Delphi for jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog
The Wiert Corner
– To prevent a screen-saver from kicking in [WayBack] jiggling the mouse – twm’s blog: My solution then is this procedure: procedure JiggleMouse; var Inpt: TInput; begin Inpt.Itype := INPUT_MOUSE; Inpt.mi.dx := 0; Inpt.mi.dy := 0; Inpt.mi.mouseData := 0; Inpt.mi.dwFlags := ...
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GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results
The Wiert Corner
– Given a Delphi build-VM with enough CPU cores to run many builds in parallel: [WayBack] GitHub – gabr42/MultiBuilder: Runs multiple programs in parallel, shows results. Much more on this at [WayBack] The Delphi Geek: Introducing MultiBuilder. Via: [WayBack] Parallel build/test systems made ...
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FireDAC can do DBMS back-end conditional SQL via Conditional Substitution
The Wiert Corner
– Though the field-types mentioned in the problem and solution are equal (so either is wrong), the solution in [WayBack] I have a little problem with FireDAC and the TStringField and TWideStringField design time generation… – Juan C. Cilleruelo – Google+ pointed out by Jeff Weir is ...
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Delphi: TInvokableClassRegistryHelper.GetInterfaceNamespace as the opposite of TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface
The Wiert Corner
– A while ago, I needed the opposite of InvRegistry.RegisterInterface(TypeInfo(MySoapInterfacePortType, 'urn:myURN', 'utf-8');, so instead of registering an interface with a namespace URN, obtain the URN by passing the interface inverting [WayBack] TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface. This is ...
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Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor…
The Wiert Corner
– A nice thread with examples of all the things you should not do with the Delphi reintroduce keyword: [WayBack] Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor Destroy(); reintroduce; overload; In our case all we got was a memory lea… – Moz Le ...
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Installing Firebird 3.06 on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
TPersistent.com
– Thanks to my inexperience with the Ubuntu package manager, and my talent for breaking software, I managed to trash my Ubuntu installation recently to the point where it wouldn’t even boot. It gave me the opportunity to test my backups, and I’m happy to say that re-installing Ubuntu with ...
Monday, 21. September 2020
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Hands-on: Building web design for a RAD Studio TMS WEB Core project
TMS Software Blog
– I have been a Delphi developer since 1996. During this journey, I have learned new skills and acquired new tools to keep up with the demands of the the software market. In the early 2000s, I learned about AJAX, web services, and basic web design. However, my studies did not require extensive ...
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Movie #158 - Block Selection Mode
LearnDelphi.TV
– Block selection allows you to select rectangular blocks of text in your code, it's more useful than it sounds - trust me - watch the video.
Thursday, 17. September 2020
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I Just Don’t GetIt
TPersistent.com
– In case you were wondering, GetIt appears to be down at the moment. I went to take 5 minutes to update a bug report, and I needed to install FmxLinux to do so, only to see: GetIt Not Accessible I guess it will have to wait. This is the problem of automating everything. You become reliant on ...
