blong
It seems funny to think Delphi is 25 years old, and yet sure enough the celebrations are ongoing for the 25th Anniversary of its unveiling on 14th February 1995.As it happens I’ve been part of… … Read more
5 years ago in android, Delphi, windows0
gabr42
Something great has happened on this day, 25 years ago.It was the sign of Aquarius. People were listening to Creep. And the AppBuilder was released.You don’t know AppBuilder? Sure you do! It was developed and —… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi25th0
Bruce McGee
On February 14th, 2020, Delphi celebrates its 25th anniversary. Wow. It’s no secret that I’m an unapologetic Delphi fan. I like the language, the IDE and the community. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, delphi25th0
jpluimers
If a part of a method requires implicit setup/tear-down code (for instance when using managed types like arrays, strings, etc), especially in rarely taken execution paths, then consider putting that code in a separate method…. … Read more
5 years ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Software Development0
blong
A problem surfaced on Stack Overflow recently from a Delphi developer, Tom Byrnes, who discovered that on Android, the Enter (or Return) key no longer triggers the OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp events. This was unfortunate as… … Read more
5 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi0
jpluimers
Based on [WayBack] Bummer, cannot save a Delphi desktop named “Default Layout – right 3/4” – at load this one seems to be restored, but the list does not contain that entry. – Jeroen Wiert… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
[WayBack] Catch Me If You Can: the LLVM backend cannot return from a hardware exception (like AV) if the hardware exception is raised directly within a try…except block. It can only safely return if there is a… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
blong
Some while back I posted a command script (or batch file as we used to call them) that could be used by RAD Studio 10.3 users if they felt the need to change any of… … Read more
5 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi0
jpluimers
Via: [WayBack] Is there a keyboard shortcut to go to the next compiler error in the current source file? – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: Primož Gabrijelčič: Alt-F7, Alt-F8 IIRC And indeed, it is sort… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
If you have enough guts to keep Castalia enabled and have Delphi Berlin or higher, then you can use this shortcut: [WayBack] Tip: Use Ctrl+W to select content in the IDE code editor. Place your… … Read more
5 years ago in Castalia, Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
I could not find any official place where ReturnAddress is documented even though it is used at quite a few places in the RTL, VCL, FMX and 3rd party libraries like DUnitX, Spring4D, JCL, ReportBuilder, TeeChart. I… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0
jpluimers
In case I ever need to do some Bezier curve coding in Delphi: [WayBack] GitHub – zhaoyipeng/FMXComponents: Firemonkey Opensource Components Via: [WayBack] Interesting set of components for FireMonkey – Christen Blom-Dahl – Google+ … … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, Software Development0
jpluimers
For my link archive as it contains some interesting ideas on how to use DataSnap as a conversion later between two systems: [WayBack] I need to write some DataSnap “middleware” between Google Glass and a… … Read more
5 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development0