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Spring4D – Shared, Weak references

jpluimers jpluimers In addition to Shared/IShared, there is also Weak/IWeakReference in Spring.pas; these blog post explain more about them: Shared/IShared (search for {$REGION ‘Shared smart pointer’} at the current repository): [WayBack] Delphi sorcery: Smart pointers in Delphi Weak/IWeakReference (search for… … Read more 5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi unit aliases: multiple ones can point to the same unit

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago, I had to figure out how to get some GExperts stuff cross-compile to older Delphi versions, because of UITypes usage that is not available in Delphi XE and lower (but much of… … Read more 5 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, GExperts, Software Development 0

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Delphi’s TZipFile working on a stream

dummzeuch dummzeuch Recent versions of Delphi (for a suitable definition of “recent”) come with a TZipFile class implemented in the unit System.Zip. This class has the really neat feature that it can not only read the contents… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi 0

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TMonitor versus Critical sections revisited: when possible, use SRWL over TMonitor, then TCritical section

jpluimers jpluimers Via [WayBack] TMonitor vrs Critical sections revisited. Back then (https://www.delphitools.info/2013/06/06/tmonitor-vs-trtlcriticalsection/), it was found that critic… – Kiriakos Vlahos – Google+ as he re-did the measurements that DelphiTools did before Delphi XE5 came out: Slim Reader/Writer Lock… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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In the series “avoid Variants when coding in Delphi”: the comparison operator

jpluimers jpluimers For Variant types, the = comparison operator in Delphi maps to the VarCompareValue in the Variants unit. That function fails to handle various comparisons and for some it knows it can handle raises a VarInvalidOp through… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development 0

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Getting Cross with CrossVCL

Larry Hengen Larry Hengen Thought I would give CrossVCL VirtualTreeView support a look see, but when I installed it I couldn’t even run any sample applications.  Kept getting “ld-linux.exe: error: cannot find -lGL”.  Being a Linux newbie I searched… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi 0

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Webinar in Deutsch: TMS WEB Core für Delphi Entwickler

Holger Flick Holger Flick Letzte Woche habe ich ein Webinar zum Thema TMS WEB Core gehalten. Embarcadero Deutschland hatte mich dazu eingeladen. Falls ihr das Video verpasst haben solltet, gibt es die Aufzeichnung auf YouTube. Neben interessanten Themen für… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi, German, MVP, Video, web, Web Core, Web Design, Webinar 0

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Another GExperts GEM

Larry Hengen Larry Hengen I’ve used GExperts for some time, and I keep finding gold nuggets or gems as the saying goes, that make it easier to accomplish day to day tasks. GIT may be  a great version control… … Read more 5 years ago in Delphi 0

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Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s blog

jpluimers jpluimers Thomas basically did all the research on the forwarding needed for ELC (formerly Belise/Elise), then showed the PuTTY equivalent to ssh user@remote -L5567:192.168.1.200:5567: [WayBack] Remote access to the Embarcadero License Center via SSH tunnel – twm’s… … Read more 5 years ago in *nix, Communications Development, Delphi, Development, Internet protocol suite, Licensing, Power User, Software Development, SSH, ssh/sshd 0