Archive for the 'Delphi stuff' Category

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Taskbar/Task Manager/Vista issues in applications built with Delphi 2007

There has been a bit of discussion in the CodeGear newsgroups recently regarding some issues to do with applications built with Delphi 2007, and how it affects appearance on the Windows taskbar, the task manager list, and Vista. Some solutions suggest making some modifications to Forms.pas, however this doesn’t help those like me who build [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on April 3rd, 2007 under Delphi stuff | Comment now »

try except madness

..or should I say “try and accept some madness”? Today I came across this little gem inside of a CloseQuery event handler of a form:   try    CanClose := bIsInitialisationsOver;  except    on E: Exception do    begin      WriteErrorToLog(’Error.Exception - ‘ + E.Message);    end;  end; CanClose is a boolean variable that is part of the handler. bIsInitialisationsOver [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on January 23rd, 2006 under Delphi stuff | Comment now »

Going forward

What is it with using the phrase “going forward”? You’ll hear a lot of execs (and maybe even some non-execs) use the phrase in relation to their business plans, but what is the point of saying it? I wouldn’t expect anyone talk about their business plan in relation to doing something that is “going backward”. Enough [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on January 20th, 2006 under Delphi stuff | 1 Comment »

Initialization, where are you?

Working on this project in Singapore, I came across something similar to this: unit SomeUnit; … implementation … begin  DoSomeCodeHere;end. No, it wasn’t exactly the code above; it’s just to illustrate that I had forgotten this was possible. So how does Delphi treat the above code? The answer in BDS 2006 is that the code [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on January 12th, 2006 under Delphi stuff | 2 Comments »

TeamB meeting note: Distinctions between CoreSDP and BDS

Every year, some TeamB members have meetings with Borland staff, and today included meetings with some Borland execs. One of our meetings was with Boz Elloy, Senior Vice President of Software Products, and a subject we talked about was what Core SDP is, and why Delphi isn’t included in it. He advised that what he said is [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on November 12th, 2005 under Delphi stuff | 4 Comments »

How to replace the editor for the CommandText property when CommandType = cmdText or cmdUnknown, with the regular strings editor

I’ve just added an entry to CodeCentral, which is an IDE package that replaces the editor for the CommandText property when CommandType = cmdText or cmdUnknown, with the regular strings editor. The default editor for the CommandText property in TADODataset (and other data components) when the CommandType is cmdText or cmdUnknown, can be a bit cumbersome [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on August 25th, 2005 under Delphi stuff | Comment now »

Creating a debug version of the vcl package

Ever have a package-based application that has been affected by a bug in the VCL? If so, you’ll know how difficult it can be to hunt it down. I had one recently, so I began searching for exactly how to debug into the VCL source when using packages. Oddly, I found very little info on the [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on June 16th, 2005 under Delphi stuff | 2 Comments »

Memory managers

There’s been a bit of debate about memory managers for Delphi, and it’s probably no surprise that many Delphi programmers don’t know that you can actually replace the default memory manager in Delphi with your own, or more likely one that someone else has built. This has prompted me to have a quick scan of what [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on October 21st, 2004 under Delphi stuff | 1 Comment »

Falafel .NET Developer Conference in Toronto

The following is a reproduction of a post by Wayne Niddery to borland.public.delphi.non-technical: Falafel is putting on a conference in Toronto November 29 and 30. This is a great lineup at a great price. There’ll be sessions by Lino Tadros, Steve Teixeira, Danny Thorpe, and Allen Bauer and the price is only $299 USD. [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on October 21st, 2004 under Delphi stuff, Software development | Comment now »

One solution for fixing the .NET 1.1 SP 1 problem

Thanks to Stewart Basterash for the following solution (slightly edited): 1) Uninstall D8, also removing any other elements it installed including J# .NET Redis, .NET SDK, and .NET Framework, and third party tools (Component One, etc). 2) Physically remove the Delphi BDS directory… Installer will not entirely remove a directory and files that have been [...]

Posted by Dave Nottage on September 23rd, 2004 under Delphi stuff | 2 Comments »

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