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From Delphi 1: Type Compatibility and Identity

jpluimers jpluimers A feature overlooked by many Delphi programmer was already introduced in Delphi 1 which is more or less the same as in the Delphi 2007 documentation at [WayBack] Type Compatibility and Identity. There is a… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi XE6 .. 10.1 Berlin truncating non-VCL-control texts to 256 characters when styled

jpluimers jpluimers As of Delphi XE6, the VCL also styles non-VCL controls, but this truncates the texts to 256 characters, for instance in non-balloon hints. This is fixed in Delphi 10.2 Berlin, by making the buffer dynamic… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development, The Old New Thing, Windows Development 0

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Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor. destructor…

jpluimers jpluimers A nice thread with examples of all the things you should not do with the Delphi reintroduce keyword: [WayBack] Delphi Gem of the day: putting “reintroduce” on a destructor.     destructor Destroy(); reintroduce; overload; In our… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Delphi: TInvokableClassRegistryHelper.GetInterfaceNamespace as the opposite of TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface

jpluimers jpluimers A while ago, I needed the opposite of InvRegistry.RegisterInterface(TypeInfo(MySoapInterfacePortType, ‘urn:myURN’, ‘utf-8’);, so instead of registering an interface with a namespace URN, obtain the URN by passing the interface inverting [WayBack] TInvokableClassRegistry.RegisterInterface. This is the class… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development 0

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FreePascal downloads I used to get Web Service Toolkit to compile since the Delphi WSDL importer has braindead include support

jpluimers jpluimers The Delphi WSDL importer maintenance has been in dormant mode for a long while, which means it still barfs on WSDL include directives. In the day and age of REST and gRPC, I don’t think… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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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 4 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 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, GExperts, Software Development 0

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Delphi Exception handling code review reminders

jpluimers jpluimers I bumped into [WayBack]When an exception is nil in the exception handler – twm’s blog for some legacy code a while ago. Some code review reminders: raise Exception( is always wrong: no exception instance is created Exception.Create( without… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Why the compiler generates a `”E2018 Record, object or class type required”` on typed types…

jpluimers jpluimers From [WayBack] Why would the compiler generate a “E2018 Record, object or class type required” helper when I use a ToUpperInvariant (or any TStringsHelper call) on t… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+: Why would… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Software Development 0

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Working around [Fatal error] F2084 Internal errors like AV101E53EB-R0000000C-0

jpluimers jpluimers A few notes from my response to [WayBack] [Fatal error] F2084 Internal error : AV101E53EB-R0000000C-0 I’m getting this when trying to do some code completion. Any idea ? – Stéphane Wierzbicki – Google+: This compiler… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, F2084, Software Development 0

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So that was Lucky 13 for me…

tier777 tier777 Marco has already blogged about it and now here is my report from this year’s Entwicklerkonferenz, aka Delphi Live Germany in Darmstadt. First off, I was pleased to see that attendance was definitely better than… … Read more 15 years ago in Conference, Delphi, ekon, ekon13, Event, events 0