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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

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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 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… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, History, Software Development, Windows Development 0

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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)

jpluimers 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… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80 2

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#Delphi26th: Fun Social Film Festival App Is Developed In Delphi

Celebrating Delphi's 26th Anniversary 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… 2 years ago in android, cross-platform, Delphi, delphi26, Event, festival, film, film festival, ios, object pascal, programming, Showcase, social 0

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FastMM4: turn warnings W1047 and W1048 off

jpluimers 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… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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file – String format procedure similar to writeln – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers Cool Format feature from [WayBack] file – String format procedure similar to writeln – Stack Overflow: The cool thing about using Format is that you use for Format Strings not only to parameterize things like width and precision inside that Format String, but also… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi TestInsight: running both DUnitX and DUnit tests in a test project

jpluimers jpluimers If you want to run both DUnitX and DUnit tests in a test project using TestInsight as runner encapsulation, then you need to be aware that when there are no DUnitX tests, it will raise… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi: got “EOleException with message ‘Microsoft MSXML is not installed’” in a console or test project?

jpluimers jpluimers Did you ever get this run-time error in a console or test project? EOleException with message ‘Microsoft MSXML is not installed’ It means that CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx needs to be called in the thread that… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, Undocumented Delphi 0

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Delphi: Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj files:  nodes change places – Tommi Prami – Google+

jpluimers jpluimers From a while back, but still so very relevant: [WayBack] Any idea why Delphi (At least since Seattle) does this to Dproj files:  <DeployClass …> nodes change places – Tommi Prami – Google+. Luckily most of… – Details… 2 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0