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May 2013
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LLVM for DWScript
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– Very experimental support for LLVM in DWScript is now in the googlecode repository, thanks to the efforts of Christian-W Budde. This is the beginning of the opening of new realms of possibilities for DWS! LLVM support is currently centered around jit compilation, and at the moment doesn’t ...
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Immutable strings… in Delphi?
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– One of the “novelties” of the NextGen Delphi compiler is immutable strings, which I find quite puzzling, for lack of a better word, given that Delphi already had reference-counted copy-on-write strings, and the NextGen compiler uses reference-counted strings. I always considered that ...
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DWScript news roundup for May 2013
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– Language and Script Engine Delphi XE4 is now supported, compiler hints for XE3 have been taken care of as well compiler now supports “in” operator across strings, for for instance “if subString in myString then” is equivalent to “if myString.Contains(subString) ...
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Smart Contest 2013 – Round #2
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– The second Smart Context 2013 has been announced! As with the previous round, first prize is a tablet device of your own choice (up to USD 750). This time the theme is “Game Development” The rules are as follows: Registration before the 13th of May (registration at ...
April 2013
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Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers
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– Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch. Super Powers? For instance, when doing MS Word OLE automation, you can in VBS and VBA write things like WordApp.Documents[1].Name which in Delphi (and many ...
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What would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
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– This is a practical poll question, what would get you to buy a newer Delphi version? What would you like to see most and foremost, and would most have a use for? To force you to choose, you can only pick two items! Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate ...
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Not in (interpreted) Kansas anymore
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– For a few weeks now, an experimental JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. A more detailed article into the hows and whats and WTFs will come later. Consider this article as an extended teaser, and a sort of call for test cases, benchmarks and eyeballs on the source ...
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COM connector spring cleanup
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– DWScript COM Connector has just received a spring cleanup, as it had grown a bit mouldy over the last years. The COM Connector optionally gives scripts direct access to ActiveX and COM objects. As part of the cleanup, it now support IEnumVARIANT and ComVariantArray can now be enumerated as well ...
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Protected: DWScript showcase: AquaSoft SlideShow
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DWScript happenings
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– This is a belated news update, with only the highlights: Language News combined property/fields declaration is now supported (same syntax as Oxygene) dynamic arrays now support a Remove method, which has the same syntax as IndexOf, and can be used to remove elements by value for var xxx in array ...
March 2013
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What client-side platforms do you develop for?
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– What client-side platforms do you develop for? With Delphi/FreePascal or with other tools. This is a small poll to gauge the audience of this website, check all applicable, but please limit yourself to those you personally develop for (be it work or hobby), not your company or colleagues. Note: ...
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Publishing pictures from an HTML5 app
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– This is a belated followup to the L-System Fiddle series from last year (more like a forgotten article), which ended with a Pascal-based HTML5 app being used to generate fractals and publish them to imgur. Why imgur? Well because they have a well-documented API and they don’t require ...
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Call for DWScript showcase
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– I’m considering setting up a DWScript showcase webpage. If you’re using DWScript and want to be on that page, please mail the following to “eric at delphitools.info”: short description of how DWScript is used screenshot of the application where it’s used website or ...
February 2013
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Delphi array constructors performance (or lack of)
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– In Delphi you can initialize a dynamic array in two ways, either manually or via the Create magic constructor: type TIntegerArray = array of Integer; procedure Test; var a : TIntegerArray; begin // magic constructor a := TIntegerArray.Create(1, 2); // manual creation ...
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Property expressions and statements
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– Object Pascal does allow binding a property to a field for direct read/writer, but we all have seen properties that required a slightly more complex getter or setter, and that usually meant a method for both. DWScript (svn trunk) & Smart Pascal (1.1) now support property expressions and ...
