Reminder to self to install the [WayBack] High DPI Patches For Delphi | The Art of Delphi Programming from the [WayBack] download zip.
–jeroen
Via: [WayBack] Some things just need their time: – Uwe Raabe – Google+
Archive for June, 2018
High DPI Patches For Delphi | The Art of Delphi Programming
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/06
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Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commit messages. You won’t even believe how he did it! | CommitStrip
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/06
From a long time ago: [WayBack] Our CTO has discovered an incredible way of making developers read his commit messages. You won’t even believe how he did it! | CommitStrip.
It seems others want to improve their commit Click-Through-Ratios as well, in a faint hope to get their pull-requests merged.
[WayBack] Thibaut Sacreste on Twitter: “I’ve been experimenting with clickbaity pull request headlines at work. CTR’s gone Though. The. Roof!!!… “
Tough luck: in the mean time, developers have learned (:
Via: [WayBack] »I’ve been experimenting with clickbaity pull request headlines at work. CTR’s gone Though. The. Roof!!!« – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+
–jeroen
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Delphi 10.2 Tokyo: they did not fix the broken documentation tab in 10.2.2 2004, but it is an “easy” fix to do yourself
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/06
Since the fix is on the forums server (singular!) and that one tends to be squirrel driven lately, here it is in full via [WayBack] I see they didn’t fix the broken documentation tab in 10.2.2 2004 (professional). It’s not a show stopper but a nuisance to fix oneself. And for new dev… – Herbert Sauro – Google+ and [WayBack] I have installed Delphi 10.2.2 and the Documentation tab is all stuffed up ( see picture ). I know there is a html template page for the welcome tab, bu… – Tony Danby – Google+
In
C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\19.0\Welcomepage\enEdit
Documentation.htmand insert the one piece about theinnerWidthfunction setFrameURL(url) { if(url){ document.getElementById('load_html').src = url $("#load_html").css("display", "block"); var height = window.innerHeight || document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight; $("#load_html").css("height",(height)+"px"); var width = window.innerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth; $("#load_html").css("width",(width)+"px");It works and takes up the entire page after you restart the IDE.
If it gets up: https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?threadID=271798
- [WayBack] New Web Forums! | Atozed Software:As the Embarcadero forums are unreliable and often offline for long periods of time, we have created web forums in English and Portuguese for IntraWeb, but also general Delphi and Indy forums too. …
- [WayBack] Embarcadero Squirrel on Vacation Again | Atozed SoftwareThe squirrel on a wheel which powers the Embarcadero Forums has gone on vacation – again. The Embarcadero forums are thus down and inoperable, again. Although we continue to use the Embarcade…
- [WayBack] Forums… https://embarcaderomonitoring.wiert.me/ – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+
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GitHub – oldcompcz/SpaceAssault: DOS space shooter in ASCII.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/05
Cool [WayBack] GitHub – oldcompcz/SpaceAssault: DOS space shooter in ASCII. written in pure C using Turbo C.
You can likely compile this using this:
[WayBack] Turbo C++ or C for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 32/64-bit Full Screen Free Download – CodePlex Archive
The download is actually a small Windows wrapper around Turbo C++ 3.2: github.com/vineetchoudhary/turbocpp/releases.
Via: [WayBack] Space Assault Game The complete source code of very nice ascii-art invaders is now at GitHub. This game of Roman Hocke won second place in the High-Voltage 2017 competition… – Jaroslav Beran – Google+
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Delphi versions that can convert .bpg to .groupproj files
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/05
Reminder to self: extend the below very incomplete list of Delphi versions that can open a Borland Project Group file with extension .bpg (from the Delphi <= 7 era) and convert it to an XML based Group Project file with extension .grouproj (from the Delphi >= 2007 era).
- Delphi 2007
Notes:
The .bpg file is actually a makefile, see for instance [WayBack] build – How to compile a Delphi 7 project group file (.bpg) using the command line? – Stack Overflow
Delphi 2006 and 2005 use .bdsgroup files:
- [WayBack] File Extensions of Files Generated by RAD Studio
- [WayBack] File Extensions of Files Generated by RAD Studio
The .bdsgroup files are not compatible with .groupproj files in Delphi 2007 and up: [WayBack] delphi – How to convert a D2009 .groupproj file to a D2006 .bdsgroup file? – Stack Overflow.
A .grouproj file is basically an msbuild 2013 subset, see the below links for more info:
I needed this so I could make this conversion:
- https://github.com/jpluimers/HVRTTIUtils/blob/master/HVRTTIExploration.bpg
- https://github.com/jpluimers/HVRTTIUtils/blob/master/HVRTTIExploration.groupproj
–jeroen
PS: Searching for the .groupproj links also got me this: [WayBack] Parallel compilation of delphi projects through MSBuild – Stack Overflow
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Field “id” not found, the The Turkish-İ/I/i/ı and case conversion and case folding – Update on the dasBlog Turkish-I bug and a reminder to me on Globalization – Scott Hanselman
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/05
Reminder to self: in Turkey, they have more than just the lowercase i and uppercase I. In fact these are the i characters you can get:
- U+0049 – I – dotless uppercase – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I’ (U+0049)
- U+0069 – i – dotted lowercase – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘LATIN SMALL LETTER I’ (U+0069)
- U+0130 – İ – dotted uppercase – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE’ (U+0130)
- U+0131 – ı – dotless lowercase – [WayBack] Unicode Character ‘LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I’ (U+0131)
Note there are more non-US latin characters in Turkey, see the links below for some lists.
The Turkish case conversion is inside the same group of dotted. The English case conversion is from dotted lowercase i to dotless uppercase I as shown in [WayBack] Internationalizing Turkish: Dotted and Dotless Turkish Letter “I”:
English vs. Turkish Case Mappings Language Letter Lowercase
MapUppercase
MapEnglish i i I Turkish dotted i i İ Turkish dotless ı ı I
In general, this problem is called [WayBack] Case Folding and many environments do not have good and ready to use solutions for this.
In my case, I was getting Field "id" not found messages for all tables that had an ID field. The reason was that somewhere in the path from my code to the database, either a comparison or case conversion wasn’t taking into account the above mappings.
Though the underlying database indicates I shouldn’t in [WayBack] Do I have to use UPPERCASE identifiers?, it appears that something in the path from my code via IBX to the Firebird 2.5 database has issues on Turkish machines. The good thing: Database WorkBench 5.x doesn’t have that issue for a regular query.
Usually databases are only cases sensitive with quoted identifiers, but not all are: [WayBack] Lorenzo Alberton – Articles – Database identifiers, quoting and case sensitivity
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Chris Osbornes picture of (Almost) Every Wedge Computer he has Got : retrobattlestations
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/04
On reddit: [WayBack] Wedge Week(Almost) Every Wedge Computer I’ve Got (i.redd.it)
Via: [WayBack] My entry for #WedgeWeek on #RetroBattlestations. (Almost) every wedge computer I’ve got. No exact duplicates but a few are from the same series. Glad … – Chris Osborn – Google+ where I commended “Nice collection! I’ve used at least 10 or 12 of them in one way or the other (: Need to take a closer look when not on the road.”
So behind a normal machine instead of a smartphone, I think this is the list going from the top left in a counter clockwise and spiral order to the center:
- * Atari 1040STF (which unlike the Atari 520ST andAtari 1040ST had both floppy and power supply built-in)
- Tandy Radio Shack TRS/80 (original version without numeric keypad)
- Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (with speech synthesizer module)
- * Commodore 128
- * Amiga 500
- * Sinclair ZX Spectrum
- Texas Instruments CC 40
- Triumph Adler Alphatronic PC (this reminds me of Triumph Adler electronic typewriters I used, but the “TA Royal” set me on the wrong foot)
- TRS-80 Colour Computer 2 (I originally marked it as “Radio Shack ???”, as I had no idea **)
- Commodore Plus/4
- * Apple //c (I need to get my monitor repaired)
- Atari 800
- TRS-80 Colour Computer 3 (I originally marked it as “Radio Shack ???” too, as I had no idea **)
- * Apple II (not the plus!)
- Timex Sinclair 1000 (basically an OEM Sinclair ZX 81)
- TRS-80 MC-10 (I originally marked it as Radio Shack ??? too, as I had no idea either)
- * Amstrad ZX Spectrum +2 (after they bought Sinclair; being close to Germany I’ve seen and used a few other Amstrad computers as well as they were wildly popular there)
- * Commodore VIC-20
- Tandy 102
- * Sinclair ZX 81
- Mattel Aquarius
- * Commodore 64
- * BBC Micro (I think it is a model B)
- I marked the ones I ever used (either at school, friends or university) with a star, and added some links later; mostly from Wikipedia/Wikimedia.
** I’m still not sure why, as there was a Dutch user group (see trs80.nl), but somehow no people in my “circles” me had one.
Original image is a [WayBack] highres 3211*1942 one and easier to see the model numbers (;
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How to Control Your Air Conditioner with Raspberry Pi Board and ANAVI Infrared pHAT
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/04
Interesting howto: [WayBack] How to Control Your Air Conditioner with Raspberry Pi Board and ANAVI Infrared pHAT
via: [WayBack] Air conditioners’ remote control codes are a bit different from say your TV remote control, as they don’t just send one byte, but a bunch of bytes… – Jean-Luc Aufranc – Google+
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stascorp/rdpwrap: RDP Wrapper Library – up to 15 RDP sessions on any Windows edition including basic/home/core
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/04
RDP Wrapper works as a layer between Service Control Manager and Terminal Services, so the original termsrv.dll file remains untouched. Also this method is very strong against Windows Update.
- Source: [WayBack] stascorp/rdpwrap: RDP Wrapper Library
- Via: [WayBack] RDP Wrapper – concurrent RDP sessions for home usage (up to 15 concurrent sessions) https://github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap/releases – Ilya S – Google+
- Releases: [WayBack] Releases · stascorp/rdpwrap
I’ve tested this on Windows 7 Home Premium and it works fine, see the log below. On Windows 10 Fall Creators Update and up, I had to get the rfxvmt.dll files (in %windir%\System32 and %windir%\SysWOW64) from a Windows Professional system, see Known Issues. You can download them from the repository as well.
- Download from github.com/stascorp/rdpwrap/releases
- Unzip
- Run the
install.bat:
C:\Users\jeroenp\Downloads\RDPWrap-v1.6.1>install.bat RDP Wrapper Library v1.6 Installer v2.3 Copyright (C) Stas'M Corp. 2016 [*] Notice to user: - By using all or any portion of this software, you are agreeing to be bound by all the terms and conditions of the license agreement. - To read the license agreement, run the installer with -l parameter. - If you do not agree to any terms of the license agreement, do not use the software. [*] Installing... [*] Terminal Services version: 6.1.7600.16385 [+] This version of Terminal Services is fully supported. [+] TermService found (pid 1168). [*] Shared services found: CryptSvc, Dnscache, LanmanWorkstation, NlaSvc [*] Extracting files... [+] Folder created: C:\Program Files\RDP Wrapper\ [*] Downloading latest INI file... [+] Latest INI file -> C:\Program Files\RDP Wrapper\rdpwrap.ini [+] Extracted rdpw64 -> C:\Program Files\RDP Wrapper\rdpwrap.dll [+] Extracted rdpclip6164 -> C:\Windows\System32\rdpclip.exe [*] Configuring service library... [*] Checking dependencies... [*] Checking CertPropSvc... [*] Checking SessionEnv... [*] Terminating service... [*] Starting CryptSvc... [*] Starting Dnscache... [*] Starting LanmanWorkstation... [*] Starting NlaSvc... [-] StartService error (code 1056). [*] Starting TermService... [*] Configuring registry... [*] Configuring firewall... OK. [+] Successfully installed. ______________________________________________________________ You can check RDP functionality with RDPCheck program. Also you can configure advanced settings with RDPConf program. Druk op een toets om door te gaan. . . C:\Users\jeroenp\Downloads\RDPWrap-v1.6.1>rdpcheck
Note that this “error” is normal: [-] StartService error (code 1056). as it means the service is already started: [WayBack] System Error Codes (1000-1299) (Windows)
ERROR_SERVICE_ALREADY_RUNNING
- 1056 (0x420)
- An instance of the service is already running.
–jeroen
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Thread by @shanselman: “Sure. Not too complex. Thread -> .NET is a family. * Core runs on containers, many Linuxes, Windows and Mac. OSS, moves fast. * Framework […]”
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/01
Interesting [Archive.is] Thread by @shanselman: “Sure. Not too complex. Thread -> .NET is a family. * Core runs on containers, many Linuxes, Windows and Mac. OSS, moves fast. * Framework […]”
It answers [Archive.is] Thread by @domenic: “Having been out of the scene for over 5 years now, I’m extraordinarily confused by what’s going on over in .NET land. Not only the “what”, b […]”
Dominic was confused by .NET Core going to support Windows desktop UI apps as platform specific packages to a a cross platform foundation as announced in [WayBack] .NET Core 3 and Support for Windows Desktop Applications | .NET Blog
Via: [WayBack] Miguel de Icaza on Twitter: “Good thread on the evolution of modern .NET by @shanselman… “
–jeroen
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