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May 2005
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iPod my Car
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– The only way this is Delphi related is that I used it to listen to a Borland Radio show. I put an iPod in my car.
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D2005
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– When Delphi 2005 works it works well, Here are some of the best features.
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Making Wrong Code Not Compile
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– The advantage of a strongly typed language like Delphi is you can use the compiler to help find a lot of bugs. Codefez > Home > Making Wrong Code Not CompileIn fact, I'd have to say that if you have "primitive data" that has other attributes or properties, or that is constrained in some way, ...
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Delphi 2005 for .Net
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– I have been using Delphi for DotNet 2005 full time for a month now. I would love it, I would love all the features but the damn thing locks up so much that it is amost unuseable and I have all three patches on a brand new PC. It is almost enough to move me to Visual Studio. Fix the bugs Borland.
April 2005
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The Code Project - TraceTool 4.1: A trace framework and a visual trace utility - C# Programming
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– This may by the replacement I use for overseer. I am now doing .Net development in Delphi 2005. So I need a new logging tool, this one works with most languages and is written in Delphi if I need to extend it. The Code Project - TraceTool 4.1: A trace framework and a visual trace utility - C# ...
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User Interface Design
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– UI Design is a topic I always pay close attention to. It is often overlooked yet something where a little effort can give a huge return. It is usually no more expensive to write a good UI. On the flipside a bad UI will incure hidden costs with support and unhappy users. This quick read will get a ...
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Another NET Developer's Guide?
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– This is not really a surprise. I am buying less Delphi books these days. It is a great product but I get any new Delphi knowledge I need from blogs these days (via RSS) "I'm sorry to say that I am not going to write a follow up to the Delphi for .NET book." Xavier Pacheco
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How to Use Actions, Action Lists, and Action Managers
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– Delphi 4 and above support actions. If you have not used them take a read of this borland paper by Brian Long from 2003. It give a good introduction to what they can do. Since I was introduced to them they have become very useful
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Delphi Papers Online
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– Borland has put the papers from the 2003 and 2004 conferences online. I'll go through them and link to the interesting ones here.
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New Job
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– Sorry for the break in posting I am getting a new job.
January 2005
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Title Bar Size
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– I develop under Windows XP I have always been annoyed with how much space the title bar takes up under windows XP if you turn the themes on. When you are on a small monitor it can use precious pixels. This is what it normally looks like But it can be resized smaller. You just change the display ...
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Debug only what you want to debug
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– Write this down: {$D-,L-} If you add this compiler directive to your Delphi unit the IDE wont try to step into it when you debug. This is extremely useful if you have units the debugger steps into often, usually because they respond to messages or do painting, but you know they are bug free and do ...
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Finding Delphi Apps
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– This is an old trick. If you want to know if an app was written in Delphi. In the task bar right click on it. If the menu only has three choices: Restore, Minimise, Close then it is most likely a Delphi app. This is not 100% accurate but it is right most of the time. There is a fix for it which is ...
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Day 2ish of Delphi 2005
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– Now I am getting this trying to install some packages. I have already spent 2 hours on it. ---------------------------Error---------------------------Cannot load package 'rtl70.' It contains unit 'ZLib,'which is also contained in package 'rtl90'---------------------------OK ...
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Just 1 line of code.
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– I was fixing/debugging/enhancing some code and came across this 1 line of code. PrintSendStatement(1,sessionStatementGrid); The line was so good yet so bad all at once. This is what I was able to work out just by looking at this line of code. Firstly it was calling ...
