Story Category: Tips & Tricks
VOTEDecrease Your Build Time
Erik van Bilsen
Delphi is known for its fast build speeds, at least for Win32 apps. But when you compile your same FireMonkey app for other platforms, the build time increases dramatically and can be up to 15… – Details…
4 months ago in Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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An XML DOM with just 8 bytes per node
Erik van Bilsen
I present a small XML library that parses or creates XML documents with an extremely light-weight DOM that uses just 8 bytes per node. This post shows some of the interesting algorithms that make this… – Details…
10 months ago in Delphi, Libraries, Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized, XML
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Custom Managed Records for Smart Pointers
Erik van Bilsen
In this 3rd part in (what turns out to be) a series about Custom Managed Records, we take a look at how they can be used to create smart pointers. About Smart Pointers But first… – Details…
12 months ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Automate Restorable Operations with Custom Managed Records
Erik van Bilsen
There are those common try..finally blocks that you write over and over again. For example entering and leaving a critical section to protect resources from multiple threads, or calling BeginUpdate and EndUpdate to efficiently bulk-update… – Details…
12 months ago in Custom Managed Records, Foundation, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Wrapping C(++) APIs with Custom Managed Records
Erik van Bilsen
Delphi 10.4 introduced Custom Managed Records. In this post we show how you can use this new language feature to wrap third party C(++) APIs in an easy to use model. We also compare this… – Details…
1 year ago in C++, Delphi, Libraries, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Boost Mac performance with Metal and Delphi 10.4
Erik van Bilsen
Is your Mac app a little unresponsive or does it feel sluggish? Does your MacBook laptop turn into a lap-heater when running your app? Then the new Metal support in Delphi 10.4 may be just… – Details…
1 year ago in Delphi, macos, Metal, Optimization, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized
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Mapping Delphi Types to Indices at Compile Time
Erik van Bilsen
Say what now? In this post I will show you how you can use generics and class variables to generate unique incrementing indices for any Delphi type. For example, the Integer type could map to… – Details…
1 year ago in Delphi, generics, Patterns, Tips & Tricks, Tricks, Types, Uncategorized
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Generics and Anonymous Methods – Replay
rlove
The recording of the Generics and Anonymous Methods Session is now available. Thank you to Phil Gilmore for taking the time to present this topic! View Now Online (Progressive Download) Direct Download (MP4) Code and… – Details…
11 years ago in anonymous methods, generics, Recordings, Tips & Tricks
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May Meeting – Generics and Anonymous Methods
rlove
Agenda : Generics and Anonymous Methods – Phil Gilmore Tips & Tricks – Robert Love Date/Time: Tue, May 18, 2010 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MDT (-6 UTC ) (Visit TimeAndDate.com to determine Time in… – Details…
11 years ago in anonymous methods, generics, Meeting Announcements, Tips & Tricks
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Component Development / Tips & Tricks -Replay
rlove
I had several problems recording the Component Development / Tips & Ticks Session. I would have liked to edit this, but every time I tried the quality was reduced or the file size… – Details…
11 years ago in Component Development, Recordings, Tips & Tricks
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