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State machines in Delphi and .NET

jpluimers jpluimers Forgot to schedule this in 2014, so here it finally is, as the content is still relevant: A long time ago (almost 10 years) I did some stuff with State Machines in .NET. Since then… – Details… 4 months ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Diagram, Event, java, Java Platform, Software Development, UML 0

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Enabling GitHub pages to a HTML or markdown GitHub project is dead easy: Delphi deadlockempire is now hosted on github.io

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago I wrote about Setting up a GitHub project so it is served over https as a github.io and a custom subdomain. Doing the full “host on your custom domain” route was a… – Details… 5 months ago in .NET, About, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Personal, Software Development, Web Development 0

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Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers A long time ago, I posted one of the answers to [Wayback/Archive] Where can I find a comprehensive list of Delphi “compiler magic” declarations? – Stack Overflow So for my link archive, these are the… – Details… 7 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, ekon, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi 0

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When MySQL characterset ‘utf’ does not allow you to enter some Unicode code points

jpluimers jpluimers Contrary to what many believe is that MySQL utf8 is not always full blown UTF-8 support, but actually utf8mb3, which has been deprecated for a while now. Only utf8mb4 will give you full blown UTF-8 support…. – Details… 1 year ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Database Development, Delphi, Development, Encoding, Event, MYSQL, Software Development, UTF-8, UTF8 0

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Delphi: workaround doing math with generic types preventing “E2015 Operator not applicable to this operand type” with TValue (as there is no way to constraint the generic type to be floating point or ordinal)

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago on Facebook (it’s a private group, so you cannot see the posts unless you both have a Facebook account and are member of the group), [Archive.is] Niels Tjørnhøj-Thomsen (coming from a C++… – Details… 1 year ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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DUnit with FastMM: Detecting memory leaks in individual tests.

jpluimers jpluimers Steps: Add the conditional define FASTMM to your project Ensure you have $(BDS)\source\DUnit\src  in your search path in your project (as otherwise Delphi will pick the pre-built TestFramework.dcu file which was compiled without the FASTMM conditional… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development, TestInsight 0

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“Unexpected Memory Leak” after “MyTestApplication.exe: Memory Leak Detected”

jpluimers jpluimers Sometimes after a regular FastMM memory leak test report you get a dialog like this: ————————— Unexpected Memory Leak ————————— An unexpected memory leak has occurred. The unexpected small block leaks are: 61 – 68… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, FastMM, Software Development 0

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console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers Some highlights from [WayBack] console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow: Project/Options/Linking/Generate console application and {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} are two separate things. – [WayBack] Andreas Rejbrand. The -cc commandline parameter for dcc32.exe (which could… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Some links for detecting memory leaks from individual DUnit test methods

jpluimers jpluimers [WayBack] DUnit: Xtreme Unit Testing for Delphi / SVN / [r44] /trunk/readme-fastmm.txt You have to build your DUnit GUI-testrunner with the FASTMM and ManualLeakReportingControl directive. This will enable the memoryleak items (Take a look in… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development 0

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Delphi interface generic function – Is there a work around? – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers The documentation simply states “no”, without explaining why. Luckily, there is [WayBack] David Heffernan at [WayBack] Delphi interface generic function – Is there a work around? – Stack Overflow Interfaces do not support generic parameterized… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi: .dproj TargetedPlatforms bit flags in main PropertyGroup, and Platform values in other elements/attributes

jpluimers jpluimers For cleanup of .dproj files, I want to know the bit flags that TargetPlatforms can have. TL;DR: .dproj content management in Delphi is a mess For future reference empiric values for the flags that build… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi: some notes on HModule while tracking down an access violation in TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses

jpluimers jpluimers Too bad the whole mechanism involving TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses is not documented anywhere It is the underlying storage to support TClassFinder, which was introduced in Delphi 6, documented on-line in Delphi 2007, documented slightly in Delphi 2009,… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development 0

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Delphi: Passing build variables to batch files; I think the easiest is to use environment variables

jpluimers jpluimers A long time ago, I wrote about Delphi prebuild/prelink/postbuild events. In practice, especially that you cannot inherit build events, then add new ones (), it is convenient to put all you need in a script,… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi: creating copies of installed components to repositories for portability across use cases

jpluimers jpluimers Often it is useful to have 3rd party components part of a repository so it is easier to increase portability. For instance when you want to include or exclude some of them in certain projects… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Godzilla), Development, Event, Software Development 0