Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
Finally: “new overall direction of removing ARC” for Delphi 10.3 Rio and later.
Via [WayBack] Delphi Rio – New IDE Configuration with Search Box – New compiler dialog – Improve code completion – Inline variables – Rafael Dipold – Google+
Hopefully zero-based strings are the next to go…
Related: [WayBack] Directions for ARC Memory Management in Delphi
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
For my archive bc.bat it finds Beyond Compare, then starts it with the given command line parameters. It prefers version 4 over version 3 and user settings over system settings:
:begin
@echo off
setlocal
IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% == amd64 goto :x64
IF /I %PROCESSOR_ARCHITEW6432% == amd64 goto :x64
goto :x86
:x64
:: OS is 64bit
set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
goto :findBC
:x86
:: OS is 32bit
set hkcuBaseKey=HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
set hklmBaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Scooter Software\Beyond Compare
goto :findBC
:findBC
:: https://gist.github.com/rojepp/634908
:: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5369528/windows-batch-reg-query-key-value-to-a-variable-but-do-not-display-error-if-key
set SupportedBeyondCompareVersions=3, 4
for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
call :do set bcExe="%%d"
)
)
if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hkcuBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
call :do set bcExe="%%d"
)
if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
for %%v in (%SupportedBeyondCompareVersions%) do (
for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey% %%v" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
call :do set bcExe="%%d"
)
)
if not [%bcExe%]==[] goto :foundBC
for /f "usebackq tokens=2* delims= " %%c in (`reg query "%hklmBaseKey%" /v ExePath 2^>NUL`) do (
call :do set bcExe="%%d"
)
:foundBC
if [%bcExe%]==[] ( echo no bc.exe found in registry) else (
echo bcExe=%bcExe%
if exist %bcExe% start "Beyond Compare" %bcExe% %*
if not exist %bcExe% echo not found: [%bcExe%]
)
:exit
endlocal
:end
goto :eof
:do
::echo %*
call %*
goto :eof
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
A very interesting thread at [WayBack] Do i need to create one TFormatSettings instance for each thread that needs it? If i want the same settings (for all threads), th… – Dany Marmur – Google+
It’s about:
Recommended reading!
It made me go back to these style guides (from oldest to newest):
And Stefan Glienke reminded me naming is always hard, so I found back these from a distant past:
Note most of the above Links point to (archives of) Delphi 2007 documentation as the behaviour is that old and that the below identifiers were not mentioned in the thread.
The FormatSettings variable was introduced in Delphi XE but only documented in XE2 and up.
Until that, other global variables like the [WayBack] SysUtils.DecimalSeparator Variable were used.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/10/23
Cool: [WayBack] Just wanted to tell that the Google+ Optimizer now has a cross post to Diaspora – Feature…. – Ole Albers – Google+.
Get it from [WayBack] Ghosttown – Optimizer – Chrome Web Store
The Google+ – Optimizer increases the user experience with Google+ until the bitter end…With this extension you can modify and arrange your google+ stream just like you want. Some of the Features: * Remove unwanted content ("suggested contacts, youtube-comments,animated gifs...) * Display additional content (stopwatch) * Filter by Hashtag * Autosave-Feature * Bookmark-Feature ... and more
The first time you open a page on plus.google.com, you see this:
Then when you post a removable information bar:
That directs you to the configuration (either right click the icon, or follow http://hurz.me/gplusoptimizer), where in the main item, you can enter your diaspora host (in my case pluspora) information:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 