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February 2008
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EKON Spring - Thursday Session
Daniel Wischnewski
– At the EKON Spring, I'll present a new solution for multi-language VCL applications. It allows you to translate all forms and resource strings in an external application, comes with a command line tool for updating strings. Every language resource can be deployed seperatly, the application can be ...
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Delphi Days 2008 - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland
Daniel Wischnewski
– Finally, we have announced the official date of the upcoming Delphi Days 2008, the 4th time the German speaking community will meet for sessions, talks, and get-togethers. This year we will meet in Günzburg, southern Germany to better accomodate Delphi developers coming from Austria and Switzerland ...
January 2008
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Quick Font Review - Update
Daniel Wischnewski
– The Update first for the application is done. Your ideas as well as mine all made it into the application. New features: Preview any True Type Font File not installed on your system Install the previewed files on the fly (if you have administrative rights) Filter view fonts by their ...
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More on my Windows Font Preview Application
Daniel Wischnewski
– I got some feedback from you guys via email on the Windows Font Preview Application, I wrote about yesterday. I like that *g* So, I decided to spend some more time on it and I ask you for input. What features would you like to see? Following a list of features I am thinking about implementing: ...
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Daniel Wischnewski
– You probably know this text from the built in Windows font preview application. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog Well, it is nice to see a font, when you scroll through them. Many applications out there allow to easily few multiple fonts at once. But all free tools I know of lack the ...
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DSDT is now Delphi-Treff
Daniel Wischnewski
– This week the administrators of www.dsdt.info (Delphi-Source, der Delphi-Treff) relaunched the web site with a new design. The new side reminds me of a Web 2.0 portal just from the looks of it. With the relaunch of their site, they chose a new name, simply www.Delphi-Treff.de. It is one of the ...
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Forgot your connection string?
Daniel Wischnewski
– I always forget to post it to my blog, so finally here it is. Since two years I am using this page and it helps with those crazy connection strings. When you need to find the right one for your database, check it out at www.connectionstrings.com.
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Vista, RAD Studio 2007, and Visual Studio 2008 - OOPS
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, as I've written before, I have reinstalled my work machine. Still the same setup as in the last post, basically it is just Windows Vista Ultimate (running in a domain), 2007 Office System, and Visual Studio. First, I have installed Visual Studio, then Office and last the RAD Studio. A ...
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Your project does not have a type library...
Daniel Wischnewski
– I've used the christmas-new-year-time to reinstall my work station. One year of abuse, no images, etc. has taken its toll and it was time to do something about just that. After I had reinstalled my most needed applications on-top of Windows Vista Ultimate (Visual Studio 2008, RAD Studio 2007, ...
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Thank you for all you've done for us
Daniel Wischnewski
– John Kaster informed us today of the passing of Robert Marquardt. Robert was a well respected member of the Delphi-PRAXiS and we will remember him in the fondest ways. He has done much for the Delphi Jedi Project and I hope the project will find a new person, who will step into his steps and help ...
December 2007
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Working with the Castalia Delphi Parser
Daniel Wischnewski
– Last week I asked for a list of Delphi parsers/lexers, to analyze Pascal/Delphi files. One of the solutions named, and by far the best one, was the Castalia Delphi Parser. After playing with it a while I started to see what it really can do. While it is not the easiest to use, it goes a long way. ...
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Searching your Delphi files...
Daniel Wischnewski
– Yesterday, I asked you guys for a list of Pascal/Delphi parsers. Today I ask you how I should really use it. What I am going to do... I am currently writing a indexing filter, that will index your Delphi/Pascal files with the Windows Search Desktop, which comes with MS Windows Vista, and is ...
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I am looking for a basic (or good) Delphi lexer
Daniel Wischnewski
– Well, I know about DGrok, which seems to be a great tool. However, it is written all in C# and therefore all in .NET only. For a upcoming project, which I want to make open source once finished, I need a lexer, which is written in native Pascal/Delphi. It does not need to be perfect, however, it ...
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More on the Zoom and SuperZoom
Daniel Wischnewski
– My last post was on the Zoom-Feature of the Delphi 2007 IDE. During the last hours I played around a little with it. One of the comments mentioned the option SuperZoom, which is even nicer. However, in a multi-monitor setup, SuperZoom always places the editor on the main monitor, which is not ...
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Full Screen Editor in Delphi 2007 IDE
Daniel Wischnewski
– Alfonso, a member of the Delphi-PRAXiS has seen an undocumented feature in an presentation and shared it with the community. Since many of you don't read the German forum or may just miss it in the wealth of information flowing through the Delphi-PRAXiS, here is a very nice registry hack. ...
