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VOTEA little bit of zis, etc. #4
Francesca Gaillard
It’s been almost a year… I’ve been pretty busy and I have had some posts in the works for a long time that still needed some attention. I’ve decided it was time to clean the… … Read more
13 years ago in A little bit of zis, Delphi, General, Personal, Uncategorized
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Embedding and playing Sound/Music in a Delphi Application
Francesca Gaillard
Or The new old stuff… We had to make the application play specific sounds as a status indicator that doesn’t require the user to look at the screen. To avoid external dependencies, the idea is… … Read more
13 years ago in Delphi, IDE, Resources, Sounds, UI, User Interface, vcl, windows
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A little bit of zis, etc. #3
Francesca Gaillard
Back from the DelphiLive conference… A big thank you to Frank and Michael who made this a very nice event. There was a lot of excitement about the new XE2, from the attendees to the… … Read more
14 years ago in A little bit of zis, Conference, Delphi, Jobs
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A little bit of zis, etc. #2
Francesca Gaillard
I know, I’ve been not very much of a blogger lately… Delphi XE2 is announced and it surely looks like a very interesting release (and probably with some nasty bugs as well, we’ll see)… I… … Read more
14 years ago in A little bit of zis, Conference, Delphi, Motorcycle, tiobe, UI, Uncategorized, User Interface, windows
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The Unfortunate Effect of WM_SETREDRAW
Francesca Gaillard
… or why simply replacing LockWindowUpdate by WM_SETREDRAW is not that straightforward. As you know, when you want to avoid flickering or multiple partial redraws of your Forms, during a flurry of updates for instance,… … Read more
14 years ago in Bug, Delphi, LockWindowUpdate, User Interface, windows
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When The Debugger Leaks…
Francesca Gaillard
… you may end up chasing memory leaks that don’t exist. I was at work investigating some bizarre behavior of our application when dealing with a big customer file and I had ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown turned on… … Read more
14 years ago in Bug, Debugger, Delphi, IDE, Memory Leaks, Quality
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A little bit of zis, etc.
Francesca Gaillard
I haven’t blogged in quite a while… I have been busy at work and at home. And now I’m with the family for an extended week-end in the mountains. So, this post will be more… … Read more
15 years ago in A little bit of zis, Community, Delphi, IDE, Personal, Quality, tiobe
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French Delphi Speech Session Downloadable
Francesca Gaillard
The zip of my CodeWay 4 session (in French) is now available for download here. FYI, the old CodeRage 4 session (in English) is also available from Embarcadero: “Speech Enabling Delphi Applications (zip)” … Read more
15 years ago in CodeWay, ComCtrls, Conference, Delphi, RichEdit, Speech, User Interface, vcl, windows
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FieldByName, FindField: too convenient to be honest
Francesca Gaillard
I don’t know about you, but I can’t count anymore the number of times I’ve seen this code pattern (in code snippets online as well as in production code): while not ADataSet.Eof do begin […]… … Read more
15 years ago in Best practices, Coding standard, Delphi, FieldByName, Optimization, Quality
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