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January 2010
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JVCL svn head is now working again
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– The JVCL package name change is now finished. All packages have new names following the name schema: JvXXXX.dpk for run-time packages and JvXXXXDesign.dpk for design-time packages. The BPLs have the $LIBSUFFIX C60, D60, 70, 90, 100, 110, 120 and 140 depending on the IDE version. And because ...
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JVCL svn vs. git
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– The JVCL team just changed all their package names. This step was necessary because the current schema was Jv*D?R.bpl for runtime and Jv*D?D.bpl for designtime packages. So every packages had the Delphi version in its name. Nobody really knows why the JVCL didn’t use the $LIBSUFFIX compiler ...
December 2009
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New IDE Fix Pack 2.9
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– The last debugger optimizations didn’t gave everybody the speed they expected. With some help I found another code location in the debugger that becomes a bottle neck if you have thousands of units. Changelog from 2.8 to 2.9 (2009-12-22): Bugfix: CallStack optimization could cause access ...
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RAD Google Studio or how to not use Help Insight
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– Here is an example how you can use Help Insight to do a google search. The #0 at the string’s end makes it possible. I doubt that that was intended.
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DelphiSpeedUp 2.8 and IDE Fix Pack 2.8 released
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– Speed is all. That’s what this release is all about. I have revived DelphiSpeedUp to fix something in Delphi 7 that had cost me a lot of time each day. The F7 key (step into) became a “don’t press it if you don’t want to get a cup of coffee” key. And I decided that it ...
November 2009
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DelphiSpeedUp 2.8 Release Candidate
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– After all the responses to my last blog entry I started all over again and implemented a completely different optimization strategy. And thanks to some time consuming researches I think I found the best solution for the problem. BTW: Delphi 7’s debugger has a problem if DEP (Data Execution ...
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DelphiSpeedUp 2.8 testers needed (D6-D2007)
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– Last week I had to start working with Delphi 7 again. And if you are already used to the speed of Delphi 2009 and 2010 the Delphi 7 IDE seems to be slower than expected. Especially if you have a large project and you want to pause the application or step into a function that is in a unit without ...
October 2009
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What about Delphi 7, what about Delphi 2007 ?
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– I know many of you are stuck with older Delphi versions. Some don’t want and many can’t upgrade to a unicode Delphi version for reasons that I won’t discuss here. So why do I not support Delphi 7 anymore. It’s not because I can’t. It’s because I don’t want ...
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Sorry, I’m now Delphi 2009 and 2010 only
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– Yesterday night I installed Windows 7 (64bit). And after 8 hours of installations I had everything installed and configured except Delphi. Today I had to decide what Delphi versions I want to install. And because Delphi 7 long outlived its lifetime and I didn’t want to go through all the ...
September 2009
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IDE Fix Pack 2.71 for RAD Studio 2009 (only)
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– There was a bug in IDE Fix Pack 2.7 and older that caused the IDE to mix localized and not localized resource strings like the IDE’s menu items if you install Devart OraDeveloperTools. This bug only affects the IDE not your applications (because that is what the IDE Fix Pack does ). This bug ...
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DDevExtensions 2.0 for Delphi/C++Builder 2007 (snapshot)
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– I have finished porting all the DDevExtensions 2.0 feature back to the 2007 code base. During this I had to not only drop Delphi 5 and 6 but also all other versions. Delphi 2005 and 2006 compile but I have no way to test it, what means that I can’t even know if all the “external” ...
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New Change Main Icon DDevExtensions feature
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– I just finished writing (and testing) a new DDevExtensions feature that can be found in the “Set VersionInfo” dialog. The dialog now has a 3rd tab sheet named “Change Main Icon”. It allows you to change the project’s main icon. By pressing 1 button the new icon can be ...
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RAD Studio and the Vista icon resource
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– If you write an application than should run under Vista you should use an icon resource that has the set of icons that Vista requires. That means you must also have the 256×256 x 32bit Alpha Channel icon. But by loading such an icon file into the project resource the icon resource becomes ...
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DDevExtensions 2.0 released
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– I’ve just released the new DDevExtensions version 2.0 that supports RAD Studio 2009 and 2010. Sorry Delphi 5-2007 users, but I don’t have the time to back-port all the new features which heavily depend on the undocumented Delphi 2009/2010 IDE interface. The ToolsAPI is too limited for ...
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New Hard Disk, new speed, getting rid of the boot issues
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– I’ve just installed my new 1 TB (7200 rpm. SATA II, 32MB cache) hard disk that is more than twice as fast as my old hard disks. My previous setup was 2 x 250 GB. And guess what. The system partition was on HD:0 while the boot partition (where Windows is) was on HD:1. I had to remove one HD, so ...
