Story Category: technical
VOTEWorking with cryptography in EurekaLog
GunSmoker
EurekaLog is an exception tracer, i.e. a tool that installs hooks and catches exceptions being thrown, allowing you to generate a report on unhandled exceptions. However, it does provide various kinds of additional functionality that… – Details…
2 years ago in additional features, Delphi, EL 7.x, feature, how-to, technical
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EurekaLog + VirusTotal = unforeseen consequences
GunSmoker
We were contacted by a person who reported unforeseen consequences of uploading EurekaLog-enabled application to the VirusTotal service. It was like this: the client compiled an application with EurekaLog. The application was configured to send… – Details…
2 years ago in Delphi, EL 7.x, technical
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EurekaLog causes EOutOfResources (Out of system resources)?
GunSmoker
We were contacted by a person who complained that his application was working fine until he added EurekaLog to it. An “Out of system resources” exception was raised after adding EurekaLog to project. The exception… – Details…
2 years ago in bug reports, debugging, Delphi, EL 7.x, Stories, technical
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Even empty applications have bugs
GunSmoker
We were contacted by a person who claimed to have found a bug in EurekaLog. He justified this statement as follows: if you create a new DataSnap application and add EurekaLog to it, the application… – Details…
2 years ago in Access Violation, Bug, Delphi, EL 7.x, Stories, technical
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EurekaLog causes Integer Overflow?
GunSmoker
We were contacted by a person who complained that his application was working fine until he added EurekaLog to it. An Integer Overflow exception was raised after adding EurekaLog to project. The exception occurred inside… – Details…
2 years ago in bug reports, debugging, Delphi, EL 7.x, Stories, technical
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EurekaLog causes AccessViolation?
GunSmoker
We were contacted by a person who complained that his application was working fine until he added EurekaLog to it. An AccessViolation exception was raised after adding EurekaLog to project. The message was: “Access violation… – Details…
2 years ago in Access Violation, bug reports, debugging, Delphi, EL 7.x, Stories, technical
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Why is EurekaLog’s call stack drawn in different colors?
GunSmoker
Do you know what the different colors in the callstack mean? These colors help you to understand how call stack was build: Red means crash or leak location. This is the exception’s address. Each bug… – Details…
2 years ago in bug reports, Delphi, EL 7.x, feature, how it works, technical, tips
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How to find out why your application suddenly closes?
GunSmoker
Sometimes there are cases when your application just silently exits, and you have no idea why. How can you diagnose such issues? When can a program close? The application may close: Ordinarily: the application is… – Details…
3 years ago in additional features, debugging, Delphi, EL 7.x, feature, how-to, technical, Tools
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How to deal with send failures in EurekaLog
GunSmoker
You (as developer) is interested in getting as much bug reports as possible. First, you have to select a reliable send method for delivering reports from users to you. However, it may be not enough…. – Details…
4 years ago in best practice, Delphi, EL 7.x, how-to, technical
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Sending e-mails with EurekaLog
GunSmoker
EurekaLog’s code can be used to easily send arbitrary e-mails from your code. Option 1 Use EurekaLogSendEmail function from ESendMail unit. For example: EurekaLogSendEmail(‘recepient@example.com’, ‘Subject’, ‘Body’); or like this: if not EurekaLogSend… – Details…
4 years ago in Delphi, EL 7.x, feature, how-to, technical
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