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VOTE5 Reasons Why It’s Great to be a Delphi Developer in 2021-2022
Hagop Panosian
Delphi is one of the programming world’s legendary languages, a cornerstone of the history of software development. New languages have come to the fore as new platforms and frameworks have emerged, but Delphi has stood… – Details…
3 weeks ago in Delphi, Event, RAD Studio, windows
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Join The DelphiCon2021 Referral Program to Win Amazing Prizes, Including a Mac Mini!
Hagop Panosian
DelphiCon is On! The world’s biggest annual online conference on, in and around Delphi is just a week away! DelphiCon 2021 is open, free, and loaded with incredible content and amazing prizes and giveaways. If… – Details…
4 weeks ago in Delphi, Event, News, RAD Studio
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DUnit with FastMM: Detecting memory leaks in individual tests.
jpluimers
Steps: Add the conditional define FASTMM to your project Ensure you have $(BDS)\source\DUnit\src in your search path in your project (as otherwise Delphi will pick the pre-built TestFramework.dcu file which was compiled without the FASTMM conditional… – Details…
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development, TestInsight
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“Unexpected Memory Leak” after “MyTestApplication.exe: Memory Leak Detected”
jpluimers
Sometimes after a regular FastMM memory leak test report you get a dialog like this: ————————— Unexpected Memory Leak ————————— An unexpected memory leak has occurred. The unexpected small block leaks are: 61 – 68… – Details…
4 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, FastMM, Software Development
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console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow
jpluimers
Some highlights from [WayBack] console – When is System.IsConsole true in Delphi? – Stack Overflow: Project/Options/Linking/Generate console application and {$APPTYPE CONSOLE} are two separate things. – [WayBack] Andreas Rejbrand. The -cc commandline parameter for dcc32.exe (which could… – Details…
5 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Some links for detecting memory leaks from individual DUnit test methods
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…
5 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, DUnit, Event, FastMM, Software Development
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Delphi interface generic function – Is there a work around? – Stack Overflow
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…
5 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi: .dproj TargetedPlatforms bit flags in main PropertyGroup, and Platform values in other elements/attributes
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…
6 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi: some notes on HModule while tracking down an access violation in TRegGroups.UnregisterModuleClasses
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…
6 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development
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Delphi: Passing build variables to batch files; I think the easiest is to use environment variables
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…
6 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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Delphi: creating copies of installed components to repositories for portability across use cases
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…
6 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 10.2 Tokyo (Godzilla), Development, Event, Software Development
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I wanted to know the loaded DLLs in a process like Process Explorer shows, but from the console: Sysinternals ListDLLs to the rescue
jpluimers
In Windows, historically most people approach investigation GUI first. Having turned 50 a while ago, I am no exception. My real roots however are on the command-line and scripting: roughly 1980s Apple DOS, CP/M, SunOS… – Details…
7 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development, Windows Development
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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)
jpluimers
Editing [WayBack] What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow for more historic correctness and adding links prompted me to archive some older material and search for some more, basically because while historically very… – Details…
7 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80
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#Delphi26th: Fun Social Film Festival App Is Developed In Delphi
Celebrating Delphi's 26th Anniversary
The Social Film Festival app serves to organize the culture of free theaters and it is developed in Delphi. According to the developer, the functionality “allows you to select the… The post #Delphi26th: Fun Social… – Details…
7 months ago in android, cross-platform, Delphi, delphi26, Event, festival, film, film festival, ios, object pascal, programming, Showcase, social
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FastMM4: turn warnings W1047 and W1048 off
jpluimers
Delphi 7 introduced introduced warnings for unsafe constructs like W1047 and W1048 so you could prepare your code for the first Delphi .NET compilers . The oldest online documentation on this is in Delphi 2007: [WayBack]… – Details…
7 months ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development
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