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Coding horrors? Absolute and goto! Who uses it? Who refuses it? Why? Personally, I love absolute and goto, I use them with a lot of restraint of course, but they can be really useful tools at times. And in case of absolute, of course I make sure I do typechecking.

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Happy New Year to everyone!

I guess that most Delphi developers understand the conversion between AnsiString and UnicodeString/WideString, but do you know what will exactly happen when converting an AnsiChar to a WideChar, or vice versa? Especially when we often see these kind of assignment statements:  aWideChar := WideChar(anAnsiChar); or anAnsiChar := AnsiChar(aWideChar); Dig it!

I have a question for XE3 owners... I love Delphi, but for the first time in several years I've decided to skip on a new version (XE3). I had high hopes for FM, but with XE2, I feel that most of my expectations were not met. The concept of FM is great, but it wasn't refined, missing lots of components, anchors and more... So, my question is, do you feel that FM2 is ready to be used in a production environment?

guys anyone faced these bugs or am I missing something? RAD Studio XE3 in Metropolis UI applications: little annoying bugs which I found no easy way to fix them or turn them around. If you rename something from project manager for example, it won't rename it in the code's body and you have to go and change that everywhere it is used. Its a huge weakness in these days. Another example would be, If I change label captions in the inner side of every part of my Metropolis program, which is called "ItemDetail1" in rad studio by default, it won't change when you run the program and it shows "ItemDetail" even though the caption is something else, though the font size and shape (such as Bold or Italic) changes...

Reinventing Delphi for the masses. (A spinoff from the post by Colin Johnsun ) This might appall some, and appeal to others. Keep an open mind as this is just a brain fart from yours truly. EMBT continues to offer the current versions as before, but adds a new offering:  You get the tool free of charge with an attached account in the "Embarcadero App Store" where you can give away or sell your app on various platforms. Or, you pay $xx/year for extended services such as hosted VCS, product forums and issue trackers.  In fact, you don't even compile locally - but in the cloud, directly to your app store and to the various platforms. This will give EMBT a wealth of info on reproducable internal errors, and the compiler can be upgraded with zero deployment cost.  In theory, a simplfied IDE might even be web hosted, and debugging done on platform emulators in the cloud. The app store can have mechanisms for allowing access to test versions for test users and release versions f...

Here are some statistics that were generated from StackOverflow showing the expected age of the answers by tag list. The list is ordered by age. If you scroll to the very bottom, you'll find next to the war-stories and COBOL tags are the various Delphi tags. I guess what it shows to me (and what i've known for some time) is that Delphi isn't being picked up by younger developers. In my own experiences, I rarely see any Delphi developers that are younger than 30 and most seem to be on average to be in their 40s at the Delphi meet-ups. I think this is symptomatic of the stance taken by Borland/Inprise/CodeGear/Embarcadero in their pricing strategy which keeps Delphi out of the reach of young developers. http://www.brianbondy.com/stackexchange/expected-age/stackoverflow/

CrossFPC - finally goes public http://www.crossfpc.com/

Anybody have info about writing daemons for Mac on delphi? Currently this is possible?

Short survey to help me to define the content for my blog in 2013 - less than 5 minutes. Thanks! http://www.andreanolanusse.com/en/survey-2013-help-to-define-the-content-for-my-blog-in-2013/

WorkAround for Delphi DataSnap HTTPS TDSCert component bug (XE2 and XE3) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9011628/delphi-xe2-datasnap-server-https-could-not-load-certificate (someone interested?)

A discussion on the newsgroups has provoked me to wonder how many here commit their entire first drive ti the C: partition? It has been my habit for years to keep C: relatively small, knowing that, at some point, it will become necessary to do major repair on that partition. It has been much safer, over time, to keep all non-OS content on other partitions. However, some of the OS policies seem to assume a very large reservoir of available storage on C:. Thoughts? Practice?

i got a task from my boss to control a specific column and row of microsoft excel file based on specific condition found on other row and column of certain sheet or from the same sheet. the idea is to put the excel file on database, then load and embed (preview or edit ) on delphi form. in some condition, editing or copying (through right click) the loaded file is prohibited. how do i achieve this using delphi ? is it possible ? thanks in advance

Originally shared by Eric Grange DWScript is coming back to its web roots for 2013 with the first (AFAIK?) http.sys 2.0 open-source Delphi web server! Blazing fast, high scalability, kernel-mode Windows authentication, logging, optional bandwidth and CPU throttling, you name it! It is designed to be capable of working both under highest performance and throttled server settings (with an eye on pay-as-you go cloud hosting) and be capable of being fronted on the wild web.

[didnt know if this is more OffTopic or Discussion, as this is a delphi related story] Currently i feel like having christmas and birthday at the same time. I managed to track down a bug in my application which bothered me for quite some time now(a few month to be more accurate). As iam working on an IDE/Compiler/Emulator/Debugger for a virtual system, i use already written samplecode to test my own system. Someone has written a tetrisclone. This one runs fine, except for one dead "Pixel" which is black instead of being colored. I could not figure out the problem, and to top it all, the programm wasn't available as assembly text, but as hexdump only. No point to start and no clue where the problem was(everything worked, in every program, except for this pixel in THIS program) i stopped thinking about it after i spend countless hours on checking my operations and assembler/compiler. Then, a few days ago, i finished my debugger for the system. This time i rearranged the hex...

900 reached! :)

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Did a look in the HTML5 Builder coming with XE3. Does anybody found a wsdl importer in this product (wsdl -> javascript)? We have tons of simple plain soap-services here (made with delphi), no datasnap. On Delphi side, consume them as a client is done in seconds. Open the wsdl importer, select the URL to the wsdl description file and you are done. Eventually there is someone who has experience with converting wsdl to javascript?

Merry Christmas Everybody. Have a safe and happy day.

someone already used the framework mormot?, looks better than datasnap

I know this is an uncommon request but let's give it a try: Looking for 2 person accommodation for my wife and me in NYC from March 11-March 22 to run the NYC Half Marathon 2013 and enjoy St Patrick's Day (WiFi would be much appreciated ).  Can do Delphi coaching in return. Any hints and tips: please PM me. http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/nyc-half-2013 http://www.nyrr.org/races-and-events/nyc-half-2013

Delphi version survey results. 466 responses.  Thanks to everyone that participated.  The following link will take you to a Google docs spreadsheet (with some basic charts) of the results. http://tinyurl.com/d7axkb6

Care to help knock me off the fence? I've got a question for the Delphi developers that have web sites.  I made a decision when I switched my web host a few years ago based on using Delphi (5) to write ASP (or future .NET) programs for use on a Windows web server. So I selected a Windows plan over Linux. I've not done anything with ASP (nor .NET) and I'm not certain I will. But there are a number of reasons for me to switch over to a Linux server. Basically I'm wondering how many of you are on a Linux web platform or on IIS and what influenced your decision or regrets you may have. Thank you.

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it seems that there's 50% off on Castilia, hurry and be productive, the End is nye!! http://www.twodesk.com/castalia/dec21.html

Hello :) I have just uploaded the first trial version of DDDebug, my previously announced memory profiler. Beneath the precompiled files for Delphi 5 up to Delphi XE3 (32 and 64bit), it does contain the documentation, a small demo application as well as the complete source code of all DUnit tests which should help you getting started quickly. Please send me an mail if you do have any problems and i’ll try to answer as quickly as possible. The trial can be downloaded here: http://ddobjects.de/dddebug Happy debugging :) http://ddobjects.de/dddebug

A new version of CnWizards (1.0.0.638) was released Some features + Add Support to RAD Studio XE 3. + Add Draw Separate Line at Empty Row between Functions. Defaultly Disabled. + Add Function to Jump to Previous/Next Identifier under Cursor in Editor Wizard. Default Shortcut are Ctrl+Alt+Up/Down. * Form Design Supports FMX Designer. * Fix Dcu Format Error under XE 2 Update 1 in Uses Cleaner. * Optimize Support for Unit Name with Point. * Save Combo Width and Restore in Procedure Toolbar. * Support Pascal Template Declaration in Procedure List. * Add Find Edit Box to Locate Wizard and Editor in Wizard Settings Dialog. * Supports XE2 Update 4. Do not support Update 1/2/3 for incompatibility. * Other Bugs Fixed. https://code.google.com/p/cnpack/downloads/list https://code.google.com/p/cnpack/downloads/list

I've just uploaded a new version of DUDs (Delphu Unit Dependency Scanner): Fixed: The parser missed the end of the uses clause if the final ';' was directly preceded by an comment. Fixed: Unable to delete search paths. Fixed: Recursive search directories not added if the root directory is already there. You can download it here:  http://www.easy-ip.net/delphi-unit-dependency-scanner.html Please let me know your opinions, ideas and bugs. http://www.easy-ip.net/delphi-unit-dependency-scanner.html

News about "DORM, The Delphi ORM" - as I twitted some days ago, we have another contributor from Italy. Welcome Lorenzo! - Yesterday I've finished a nice course about OOP and Design Pattern (I'm also a teacher for bitTime Software) and I talked about DORM while talking about enterprise design pattern and the people were trilled about it. COOL! - SuperObject.pas is still not officially updated to XE3. ASAP shoud be release an updated XE3 version. If not, we'll start to use a patched version. - The "ObjStatus" approach probably will become the main way to use dorm in real-world applications. - I'm writing some new demos showing the ObjStatus mode. - check the new TODOManager demo to see how ObjStatus mode works. - Is someone interested to write some documentation? http://code.google.com/p/delphi-orm/ http://code.google.com/p/delphi-orm/

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Very cool! Delphi 7+ automatic memory management for any type. https://bitbucket.org/OCTAGRAM/delphi-cvariants/wiki/Home

I was testing a Firemonkey application, when I run on my MacBook Pro the application runs very slowly, but when I run the same application on iMac runs normally, any idea?

I wanted to create a replacement for IsBadReadPtr and came up with this solution. Could anyone with a fresh mind have a quick review of it? Thank you :) function IsBadReadPtr(APointer: Pointer; ASize: DWORD): Boolean; const   CMask = PAGE_READONLY or PAGE_READWRITE or PAGE_WRITECOPY     or PAGE_EXECUTE_READ or PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE or PAGE_EXECUTE_WRITECOPY; var   mbi: TMemoryBasicInformation; begin     if VirtualQuery(APointer, mbi, SizeOf(MEMORY_BASIC_INFORMATION)) = 0 then     Result := False   else begin     Result := (mbi.Protect and CMask) = 0;     if (mbi.Protect and PAGE_GUARD) 0 then       Result := True;     if (mbi.Protect and PAGE_NOACCESS) 0 then       Result := True;   end; end;

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Hello!, a Firemonkey 3D help, please!: I'm  running and application in a laptop PC where DirectX10 give very bad renders, while directx 9 and bellow shows perfectly.  I just want to force Firemonkey to use the TDX9Context instead of TDX10Context that it always set as default. Any experience with this? Thanks you in advance! :) I have posted a full description of my question also here:   http://stackoverflow.com/q/13945618/1898432?sgp=2

Hello! In Russian community published voting: which Delphi version do you use? Can anybody from this community participate in this voting? This is simple and you don't need to know russian :) select Delphi, which you use and click button "Голосовать" (Vote). http://www.webdelphi.ru/oprosy/#delphi_versions http://www.webdelphi.ru/oprosy/#delphi_versions

Greetings! I finally made it here! Delphi Rocks! http://blogs.embarcadero.com/ao

DDDebug - Delphi Memory Profiler. I just have finished the draft of the introductionary manual which can be directly downloaded here. Thanks for your interest and comments :) http://ddobjects.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/DDDebug1.pdf

Hi, I've been developing Delphi applications for 6 or 7 years now. I'm glad to see a growing community here on G+ with fellow Delphi developers. (My homepage: http://www.freddy1990.net/ ) I recently developed and published a new pastebin style website. It allows you to publish your code securely on the web. The title and paste data are encrypted using AES-256 with a random 30 character string, which is never stored on the server. The user receives a link to the paste once it's published containing the UID which identifies the paste and the encryption key. This means that you can only view, or even confirm the existence of a paste in the case that you have the full url with both elements. On top of the encryption, the site actively enforces a signed SSL connection, to ensure that your communication with the site happens securely. The site's syntax highlighting is powered by GeSHI and offers all of the syntaxes which are available in GeSHI. If you follow this link, you wi...

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I've uploaded the installer for the Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner (DUDS). You can find it here:  http://www.easy-ip.net/delphi.html . There's currently no help file, so here are a few pointers: - Create a new project and enter your root files. These can be .pas, .dpk, .dpr or .groupproj files. You can also enter a directory and it will be scanned for matching files. Paths that contain matching files will be added to the Search Path tab if you leave the check box checked. - Enter additional Search Paths. - Enter scope names if required. Click Scan and away you go. A few tips: - All columns can be sorted. - Double clicking file links in the tree will take you to the first instance of the file. You can choose not to use links in the settings but this can result in a gigantic tree structure. - Double click any file under the "List" tab to take you to the corresponding file in the tree. - When renaming files check "Dummy Run" to see what will be changed without ...

Here's a nice story about Ray Konopka: http://www.ben.edu/news/2012/college-of-science-recognizes-work.cfm

A few months ago I decided to embark on some major re-factoring of our code base. I knew that one of the toughest tasks I wanted to perform was going to be the renaming of 1000's of units. Renaming the files was easy. Fixing all the broken unit clauses was going to be tricky. To make the job easier I ended up writing the "Delphi Unit Dependency Scanner". It scans your source code and builds up a tree of the dependencies between your units. Once the source has been scanned, you can run a search and replace on unit names. Not only are the file names changed, but also the uses clauses in all the affected units. I found that the application gives you a great overview of your source code. It helps in finding units that are not used, locating circular references, actual lines of code etc. I can't open source the code, but if anybody is interested in getting a copy, let me know and I'll knock together an installer and put it online.

I'm pleased to announce that TChromeTabs has reached it's first non beta release (1.0). There are loads of bug fixes and a few new features including complete BiDi (Right to Left) support. I've set up a new TChromeTabs homepage that lists most of the main features and includes a few screenshots. You can find it here  http://www.easy-ip.net/tchrometabs.html . Many thanks to everyone that has submitted bugs and feature requests. Please keep them coming! http://www.easy-ip.net/tchrometabs.html

Source Version Control and the project.res file How have you solved the conflict issues for the .res files? #svn   #svc

Hello. I am about to release a memory profiler; a programmers tool to find memory leaks and spot growing memory consumption, which also contains an exception handler, thread viewer, supports thread wait chain traversal etc. A first draft of the manual as well as an introductionary video can be downloaded and seen at http://ddobjects.de/dddebug Any helpful comments are welcome. Release will be next weekend. http://ddobjects.de/dddebug

A quick, three question, anonymous survey on the version of Delphi that you use.  Results will be released to all on 26 December. http://tinyurl.com/bodgv4w Please take 1 minute to fill out the survey.  With over 700 members, it should be really interesting to see which version handles the bulk of our development work. http://tinyurl.com/bodgv4w

Holy moly! 700 members in just a week! I am thrilled to see that there really is a Delphi community out there! Keep posting your work, your questions, and give your thoughts on the posts of others. Stay constructive, informative and helpful, and remember that it is OK to disagree.  Just be polite about it.

Hi, Currently working on a Pascal-Like compiler in Delphi. As I'm very excited about 0x10c, i started writing a compiler which compiles pascal like Code to DASM(and final binary). And the the project grew and grew o.o Now it includes the Emulator for the documented virtual Devices and an IDE. And just started to work on the debugger. Yes i know, iam talking about a game, but this small ecosystem with pretty simple hardware is perfect for learning theses things^^ The code within the IDE isn't very special, but my goal for today was to finish Adress Line mapping between Compiled binary and units(blue dots) and the colored linebuffers. The compiler can already do a lot(not all Pascal things, but many) and the emulator runs the most required things(CPU,Display, Keyboard, Timer). VERY WIP, but its evolving :)

HI Everybody, Nice to see a Delphi-Group here.

Quick question: Has anyone used Delphi to interact with the Apigee OAuth API? If so, did you use Indy or Synapse? I am trying to use Morfik (Delphi code base) with the Synapse package, but something is not working. Calls that should work fine are apparently not getting to the Apigee server. So I thought I would just convert my app to a full Delphi XE3 DataSnap app. The main function of the app is to communicate with the Apigee OAuth API to create facebook users, post to their pages etc. Thanks, Jim

WiFi Network connectivity status - best method to check if offline? I have an app running on a Winows PC on a warehouse truck, which roams the halls of dairy products.  Some corners of these dark and secluded halls can have iffy WiFi coverage, and I need to have an idea about if I am connected or not - and preferably I'd like to know before I try a database operation and get a time out. I have a Windows Server on the other end, and I have a running Window Service that can do IP connections. Q: What method would you use to keep track of the WiFi connection Status?

I've posted a StackOverflow question in order to try and fix the drag image in TChromeTabs. If you know anything about bitmaps maybe you can take a look :)  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13914710/how-do-i-create-a-bitmap-that-has-a-clear-background-on-a-transparent-form http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13914710/how-do-i-create-a-bitmap-that-has-a-clear-background-on-a-transparent-form

Slightly off topic for a Delphi group - but it looks like an interesting job.  Perhaps you know someone that know someone?  Expert level C/C++/OpenGL position, Oslo, Norway.   Contact Olav Sylthe for details. http://myvr-software.com/index.php/myvraboutus/news-archive/127-senior-developer-for-2d3d-graphics-programming

Do you know how to quickly perform the following tasks using Embarcadero Delphi (or add ins) ? : o   Fastest way to create a procedure in interface and implementation ? for someone coming from other language, the "double declaration" principe of delphi is painful .... Is there a fast way to create both interface and implementation declarations ? o   Auto-fill property created in model view (or another quick way to generate properties) ? : by default , empty setters and getters procedures are performed , which is source of potential errors ; implementing   FMyVar := val; and  Result := FMyVar; doesn't sound so complex o   Easy way to manage interface inheritance ? In VS you can easily create all procedures when you inherit from an interface. And when you modify an interface,  creating procedures in an inherited class is done in one click . Ty for your feedback

is anybody using TMSGrid here ? i'm having problem when designing with TADVColumnGrid...normally when i double click the grid on design mode, a colum editor will show up. now i can not do the same thing as i did, i have to go to object inspector, then  on properties tab and find the colums properties. i can't figure out the setting ? can anybody help me please...

Thanks to XE3 Update #1 you can't disable packages anymore. Guess you have to remove them now. http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=111335 http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=111335

WEB AND PASCAL? Until recently, this idea would be unthinkable. However, now developers can combine the tradition and robustness of Pascal with modernity of web. Finally, after six months of hard work, Brook framework was born. http://brookframework.org/ Below, you can find the national and international annoucements links: 1 - https://groups.google.com/group/lazarus-br/browse_thread/thread/fb489748d0d71868?hl=pt-BR 2 - http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,19225.0.html Enjoy! http://brookframework.org/

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Hi, I need some help from experienced DataSnap users. I am working on a project which uses a native Delphi XE3 DataSnap Server and an HTML Rest DataSnap Client. The client is built with HTML5 Builder. The server has a function which returns a plain bitmap in a TStream. The client receives the bitmap data fine. The question: How can i pump the bitmap data into an image object whith PHP? Thanks.

Paul Thornton I have just run the latest example and compared Chrome with TChromeTab and here goes some suggestions on visual effects: 1) Default animation effect Chrome gives us a feeling of clean, fresh and most important - fast. The default animation when clicking a tab make me feel a 0.2-0.3s lag(mouse down). The dragging of a tab may be perfect with further investigation. 2) Default margins Reasonable margins are expected, including the margins between icons/text , the Add Tab button 3) Some colors/images/opacity Some resources of Chrome are more attractive (such as the close icon) 4) The Add Tab seems a little weired (maybe caused by its shadow) 4) inactive tabs The text/background of inactive tabs looks a little fuzzy 5) The drag image At present it is a rectangle. Maybe better with only a tab? I would really hope that we could get TChromeTab perfect : )

I'd like to ask how to concatenate strings in SQL (Delphi XE2) for example a field X from table A is composed from two sub-field Y and Z from table B. I tried : select * from A where X= (select Y||Z from B) it didn't work like this, neither with CONCAT( Y, Z) or COCATENATE. X= ABCD , Y= AB, Z= CD for example any help from experts!!  Thanks in advance.

I've just committed several TChromeTabs fixes and updates: Experimental: BiDi support (Khalid Dawood ). Fixed: Changed border/pen thickness properties from Integer to Single (although it doesn't seem to make any difference to the lines) Fixed: Erroneous hit test result if point wasn't in control. Caused tabs to stay hot when mouse left. Fixed: GDI+ error under Windows 8 (thanks Warren Postma ) Fixed: "Cannot focus window" error after opening then closing additional form. Fixed: Better handling of add button animation when adding/deleting tabs (still not 100% perfect). Fixed: Added TabOrder property You will need to get files from subversion ( http://code.google.com/p/delphi-chrome-tabs/source/checkout ) to see the changes. Cheers, Paul http://code.google.com/p/delphi-chrome-tabs/source/checkout

Hello everybody, It's great to have an active Group for Delphi Devs with easy-to-follow posts/replies. I have a question regarding Generics Performance: for a specific 3D data structure, if I'm going for maximum speed should I use Generics or do they come with some kind of speed penalty? I would like to use Generics because they would allow me to specify different additional information per Face / Edge / Vertex by simply defining a record and passing it to a dynamic array that is synchronized with the main 3d data arrays. For different algorithms, in addition to the standard Position, Normal, TexCoord etc., I want to be able to define algorithm-specific structures (that will be quite different between algorithms) and use generics to achieve this. Does anybody know how much slower should I expect code using Generics to be?  Any better suggestions for the problem stated above (alternatives to using Generics)?  Thank you, Claudiu P.S. Just a personal opinion, I think an "Algo...

I think it will be cool if G+ community could show members in maps. So we will get where our Delphi developers are :) Maybe it has been there?

We are very happy to have the following new open source projects joined in our Donation program:  * VCL Styles Utils * Maps4Delphi * TChromeTabs * delphi-oop * tiOPF * DWScript We will try to make Documentation Insight the most powerful tool and we hope that the authors could document more insight about the source code. https://plus.google.com/117701308282360783437/posts/TRw6CeseQmb https://plus.google.com/117701308282360783437/posts/TRw6CeseQmb

I've just discovered  http://smartmobilestudio.com/ . It's awesome. http://smartmobilestudio.com/

Member #620 salute you, Delphi fans ! :-)

Originally shared by tmssoftware Update: TMS VCL Subscription We’re pleased to inform that the current contents of the TMS VCL Subscription ( http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/vdsub.asp ) has been extended with 2 VCL products! The 2 new products that are available from today to all active TMS VCL Subscription users are: - TMS WebGMaps: VCL Component with extensive configurability for integrating Google Maps in Delphi & C++Builder.  - TMS Multitouch SDK: SDK to create immersive interactive multimedia applications or public point of sale touch based information systems. For users with an expired TMS VCL Subscription, discount offers are available. For information, see under "My products" after login on our website.

A Special discount of Documentation Insight for All Delphi Developers in this new community. (SAVE 30%!) http://www.devjetsoftware.com/purchase/ Only valid in 24 hours! (Before 23:59:59 Dec 14th) Coupon Code: GOOGLEPLUS http://www.devjetsoftware.com/purchase/

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Hi Delphi fans!!!

DevJet Software have recently announced a Documentation Insight Open Source Project Donation program. We would like to donate free licenses of Documentation Insight to qualified open source projects. For more information, please visit: http://www.devjetsoftware.com/news/ann-documentation-insight-donation-program-for-open-source-projects/ http://www.devjetsoftware.com/news/ann-documentation-insight-donation-program-for-open-source-projects/

Hello everyone i'm new here.Happy to join this community!

Hi all you Delphi fans! I am a new member of this community.

Which documentation generators do you use ?

Russian translation of the Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary book:  https://leanpub.com/omnithreadlibrary-ru This is my help to Primož Gabrijelčič, author of the very useful library. https://leanpub.com/omnithreadlibrary-ru

Hi there, I like the momentum the group is gaining.

Wow! 600 members already! Amazing! If you write articles, remember to share them with us! If you write third party components or tools, please share and/or inform us! If you have questions, please ask us!  There are no stupid questions! Be constructive, informative and helpful!

Which CI (Continuous integration) solutions do you use for Delphi ? Do you use any package managers working with 3rd-party libraries ?

Is there an easy way to determine Day X - 2 Working days in Delphi ? I'm quite sure I've seen a routine for that at some point, but I can't seem to find it back. And since we now have a Delphi Developers community on Google+, I thought this might be a good place to ask the question. In our case users plan a job on a given date. Planning a job means our WMS needs to pick some goods from the warehouse 2 working days in advance so everything is ready for delivery on the plan date.  Does anyone know an easy way to get a Date - 2 working days ? I know I could subtract 2 days from the day and check if that's a weekday and continue to subtract 1 day. But that doesn't take into account any bank hollidays or such. All suggestions are welcome of course.

Originally shared by tmssoftware ANN: TMS TWebGMaps v1.5 released  We're pleased to announce a major update for TMS TWebGMaps at http://www.tmssoftware.com VCL Component with extensive configurability for integrating Google Maps in VCL applications Screenshots: ------------- http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/img/webgmaps1.png http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/img/webgmaps2.png http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/img/webgmaps3.png http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/img/webgmaps4.png http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/img/webgmaps5.png What's new in v1.5 --------------------- - New: Support for getting direcion information & showing directions - New: Support to show & interact with polygons on map - New: Support to show & interact with polylines on map - New: Support to add labels for markers - New: TWebGMapsLookupEdit control for address auto completion - New: TWebGMapsDirectionList control to show steps of direction info - New: Functions to get & set viewports coordinates ba...

What do you create with Delphi? Try to be specific :)

My open source Delphi stuff. Maybe someone will find this useful.  http://goo.gl/TLaKF http://goo.gl/TLaKF

What  tools do you use? - RAD Studio XE3 - SVN/TortoiseSVN - VMWare - Beyond Compare - MS Visual Studio 2010 - SQL Server Management Studio - ApexSQL SQL Dev Bundle - Inno Setup - SysInternals Suite - TextPad Edit: Components: EurekaLog and TMS Component Pack

In the TIOBE Index for December 2012, Delphi/Object Pascal stays on 12th place, while Pascal has risen to 14th and got the "A" status. http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

procedure JoinGoogleDelphiGroup( Sender : TObject ) begin   With Sender as TAction do     Delphi := 'Is Cool'; end;

I could not find an mdb to form converter. Similar like in Delphi 6,so i made one http://www.limelect.com/Delphi/MDBFormMaker.html enjoy. http://www.limelect.com/Delphi/ http://www.limelect.com/Android http://www.limelect.com/ http://www.limelect.com/Delphi/MDBFormMaker.html

Spotted over at the Delphi Developer group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/137012246341854/481421075234301 "Nextsys is hiring Delphi developers in Norway, foreigners can also apply." English Google Translate of the job description:  http://goo.gl/jlhvM http://dentalnet.no/om-oss/ledige-stillinger/

Another fabulous Verity Stob post on our favorite tool (maker). #serious   #humor   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/11/verity_stob_sons_of_kahn/

The worst thing about the delphi XE+ compiler is that it leaves dead i.e. unused code in generated binaries. It is very easy to prove, just create an empty console application and compile it. The size will be approximately 190kb. The project is empty and only System.SysUtils is used. Now add System.Classes to the uses list and compile the project. Its size will become near 600 kb. This is stupid, I didn't use any of System.Classes functions or objects, why are they present in the binary? Please don't say that this is made for extended RTTI support. This is bullshit. You just didn't spend enough time on optimizing the linker. Please fix this, I think it's not so hard to do. We just want to deploy our application in many small dll's. Now it makes no sense as every dll adds 500kb and more waste space to the distributive.

The worst thing about the delphi XE+ compiler is that it leaves dead i.e. unused code in generated binaries. It is very easy to prove, just create an empty console application and compile it. The size will be approximately 190kb. The project is empty and only System.SysUtils is used. Now add System.Classes to the uses list and compile the project. Its size will become near 600 kb. This is stupid, I didn't use any of System.Classes functions or objects, why are they present in the binary? Please don't say that this is made for extended RTTI support. This is bullshit. You just didn't spend enough time on optimizing the linker. Please fix this, I think it's not so hard to do. We just want to deploy our application in many small dll's. Now it makes no sense as every dll adds 500kb and more waste space to the distributive.

Blog post "Delphi XE3 Update 1" at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_xe3_update1.html http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_xe3_update1.html

How do you track memory allocations ? I have a big legacy code, which doesnt have memory leaks (checked by FastMM), but allocated memory constantly grows during work. How do you track which objects are over-produced and accumulated, or its just memory fragmentation issue.

begin   Google.Say('Hello everyone from Paris in France !');   Google.SendSmiley(gsWink); end;

I would like to know if someone managed to get the list of fixes inside update 1 of XE3.

Source Code Control Survey:  Inspired by Colin's query as to which source code control people are using, I've created a simple, 3 question survey at google docs.  I'll post the results shortly after 23 December. http://tinyurl.com/ckrjf9n Kevin http://tinyurl.com/ckrjf9n

Hey what version control system do most Delphi developers use? For work? For personal projects? And if you have public projects, where do you host your code? Sourceforge? Googlecode? Github? or Bitbucket? I'm curious because I see one of the factors which can affect collaboration of open source projects within a programming community is (1) the Version Control System you use and (2) where you host your code. I, for one, am biased. I use git for my VCS and use Github to host my personal public repositories. For work, we host host our code in our own centralised Subversion repository but locally on my PC, I use Git to interface with it.  My reasoning is that Github makes the code the focal point. In my opinion, Github makes open-source projects (1) more easily accessible, (2) it provides the transparency to allow you to clone a project to make your own changes and fixes, and (3) gives you the ability to easily contribute back to the original project. It is also simple If you are the ...

I really wish to hear a news that fast report supporting lazarus. could this things happened in the near future ? or is there somebody from fast report in this forum ?

Hello everyone from Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Testing... 1, 2, test, test... Is this thing on? ;) Hello from the great white, err.... wet North (Canada).

I notice Update 1 is available for XE3 ( http://www.delphifeeds.com/go/s/98805 ) but I couldn't find any information on what changes have been made. Any one have any idea what's in Update 1? http://www.delphifeeds.com/go/s/98805

I've created a new Google Code project for TChromeTabs. You can find it here:  http://code.google.com/p/delphi-chrome-tabs/source/checkout . This is my first open source project, so I would appreciate any advise that you think might be useful. http://code.google.com/p/delphi-chrome-tabs/source/checkout

At the moment I am trawling API systems to link to the CRM system I am developing and this just might save some time http://cloudsnap.com/blog/

Most Delphi developers know that Delphi is based on Pascal, and some of us were Turbo Pascal developers before Delphi 1.0 even came out. How many of you know the history of ALGOL, and its influence on people like Niklaus Wirth who created Pascal.  Did you know that ALGOL is where Delphi got BEGIN and END from, for instance? Did you know that the final end in an ALGOL program has a dot, just like Pascal.  How about colon and equals for assignment (A := 5;) and semicolons as separators? Yup. Algol.  How about the fact that early Pascal code samples are often written with all keywords like BEGIN and END in uppercase is a holdover from the fact that original early computer character sets often lacked lowercase letters?  If I've caught your interest, then you might be interested to read about the adventures of a programmer who worked at Burroughs who helped write their Algol compiler.  You might call it "Turbo Algol" as it was the fastest single-pass compiler for a structure p...

I really like Paul Thornton's TChromeTabs.  I've grabbed his sources, and fixed them so they build with Delphi 2007. What I'd like to add is a non-visual component that would work along with this control, and would do the job of hooking into your main window's TForm, and let you make an app that really looks entirely like Google Chrome.  For example, in the image below are three sections. The left most is how the TChromeTabs demo looks today, with  a standard full height Non Client Area (also called Title Bar or Grabber bar by some people),  whereas the  right-most image below (in dark gray) is an actual screenshot from the top left of my Google Chrome browser. Note how it doesn't have a full height title bar, rather it has about a 16 pixel "grabber area" without a caption. When you maximize the window that 16 pixel grabber area is removed. This is a huge usability element of the "minimal chrome" UI design of Google Chrome.  Implementing this in ...

Best greetings to everyone on G+ Delphi Developers from begin to end, from Hannover Germany.

Hello from India!

Hello everyone from Bali, Indonesia

I'm pleased to announce the first public beta of TChromeTabs (see this post for more info: https://plus.google.com/110198603826897169317/posts/1XaMbgLmLMK ).  You can download the source code and exe demo here: http://download.easy-ip.net/delphi/ChromeTabs.zip For the time being, please report bugs/feature requests/comments as replies to this post. Cheers, Paul http://download.easy-ip.net/delphi/ChromeTabs.zip

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Hi all ! I'm a rare specimen here I think, as I switched from .NET to Delphi .... Happy to join this community !

Hellow from Novosibirsk, Russia

Hello Delphi developers, Let me show you the game we have been remaking in Delphi from scratch. Our homepage is kamremake.com there you can find more info about the project. Yes, it is open-source (our SVN is at Google.Code) and currently there are 2 active developers. I have been working on game tools and made a map editor for KaM, then later, in 2008 started this Remake. Here's our trailer showing new features in spring version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UmtL-29A_Q