There can be only MS Office sample automation server wrapper components in...
There are six variations; only one can be active at a time: Delphi Office 2000 Servers Package Delphi Office XP Servers Package Delphi Office 2010 Servers Package C++Builder Office 2000 Servers Package...
View ArticleHow and when are variables referenced in Delphi’s anonymous methods captured?...
Just found some notes from 2013 for my research list that are still relevant: [WayBack] How and when are variables referenced in Delphi’s anonymous methods captured? – Stack Overflow. [WayBack] delphi...
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“Don’t access VCL from a background thread”– how to demo that?
When accessing the VCL from multiple threads at the same time: adopted from …\DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR Great question a while ago: [WayBack] “Don’t access VCL from a background thread” – how to demo...
View ArticleI totally forgot that Delphi has had a function to get the current executing...
While updating some old code fiddling with the[WayBack] GetThreadId function, I wanted to have some TThread wrapper around it. I had totally forgotten there has been already a means for this since...
View ArticleVM disk sizes
I forgot to schedule the post below. It is still relevant if you create a machine with lots of Delphi versions on it. Below are some VM disk sizes I have used. Note that for Windows 7+ you need to keep...
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Reminder to self: check out “Debugging helper for TDataSet” and “debugger...
So I won’t forget to check these out: [WayBack] Debugging helper for TDataSet – twm’s blog by Thomas Müller [WayBack] TDataSetVisualizer: Delphi IDE Debug Visualizer to view a TDataSet descendant...
View ArticleHow to embed a superscript Registered symbol in a Rave memo buffer.
Thomas Pfister came with a nice solution to this question: [WayBack] Does anyone know how to embed a superscript Registered symbol in a Rave memo buffer? – Phillip Woon – Google+ Since Google has such...
View ArticleReminder to Self: `TProc` is incompatible with parameterless procedures on...
I knew that methods on interfaces were not compatible with the procedure of object (like [WayBack] TProc)or function of object construct, but they are also not compatible with the reference to...
View Article… / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas —...
Reminder to self that I one day need to write more about this enumerator: [WayBack] jeroenp / BeSharp.net / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas — Bitbucket It’s not...
View ArticleDelphi attributes cannot use `const x: array of string` as argument
[WayBack] I want to annotate some of my enumerated types with human facing names. So I want to write: type[Names(‘Explicit time domain’, ‘Implicit time domain’,… – David Heffernan – Google+ This does...
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Do not use non-ASCII characters as identifiers – not all your tools support...
For a very long time I’ve discouraged people from using non-ASCII characters in identifiers. It still holds. In the past, transliterations messed things up. Even with increased support for Unicode,...
View ArticleWizard to change Delphi Icon so it used the Projects’ Icon
Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ wrote this: [WayBack] Just an inspiration from attila kovacs (too many guys with this name on G+ to…: A Delphi Wizard that adds a menu item so the Delphi Icon will...
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Delphi: playing Chimes.wav as an external file or embedded WAVE resource in...
As a by-effect, this article seems to one of the few that shows where Delphi uses the .dres file extension introduced around Delphi XE. Recently I had to play some notification sounds in a Windows...
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Getting rid of [dcc32 Warning] W1029 Duplicate constructor...
Note that the below solution works for any project raising the W1029 warning (not just from projects using Delphi Mocks) like [dcc32 Warning] W1029 Duplicate constructor 'ClassName.ConstructorName'...
View Articledelphi – VCL events with anonymous methods – what do you think about this...
A long time ago, Pablo Vizcay a.k.a. [WayBack] pragmatic_programmer wrote some cool code at [WayBack] delphi – VCL events with anonymous methods – what do you think about this implementation? – Stack...
View ArticleThreadBarrier/ThreadBarrier.pas at master · lordcrc/ThreadBarrier
I mentioned Asbjørn Heid on wiert.me before. While prepping for the Deadlock Empire workshop at EKON20, I needed a Delphi equivalent for the .NET [Way: Barrier Class (System.Threading) The game uses...
View ArticleLooking for more examples of Unicode/Ansi oddities in Delphi 2009+
At the end of April 2014, Roman Yankovsky started a nice discussion on Google+ trying to get upvotes for QualityCentral Report #: 124402: Compiler bug when comparing chars. His report basically comes...
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Delphi TGridPanel – how to get all SizeStyle=ssPercent cells to get the same...
If you want to set all columns to the same value, select all columns in the structure view and then (assuming SizeStyle [WayBack] is already set to ssPercent [WayBack]) set the Value [WayBack] to 0....
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If you ever wonder why you get no (or incomplete) RTTI from a control that you…
Thanks Stefan Glienke for posting this a while ago: If you ever wonder why you get no (or incomplete) RTTI from a control that you inherited from a DevExpress one – then look into cxVer.inc where it...
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MarcoDelphiBooks on GitHub
Just in case I need any of them: now in chronological order. MarcoDelphiBooks – http://www.marcocantu.com ObjectPascalHandbook MasteringDelphi3 MasteringDelphi4 MasteringDelphi5 MasteringDelphi6...
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