Brilliant Date format converter from dates in Text (almost any format) or timestamp numbers in Unix, Mac, Filetime or Microsoft (which is the same as Delphi TDateTime) format to any of these formats:
AcquireExceptionObject returns a pointer to the current exception object and prevents the exception object from being deallocated when the current exception handler exits.
Then you can send the pointer to another thread and if you raise it there it will be freed for you, otherwise you must call ReleaseExceptionObject() to free it.
I had to add this to my DCC_Namespace in the rbTC1416.dproj file to make it build under Delphi XE8:
Vcl;Vcl.Imaging;Vcl.Touch;Vcl.Samples;Vcl.Shell;
The occurrence of this DCC_Namespace setting corresponds to the “Unit scope names” of the “All configurations – All Platforms” target in the project options.
That got rid of this error mesage:
[dcc32 Fatal Error] ppChrt.pas(17): F2613 Unit 'Graphics' not found.
It was for a site that had very little ReportBuilder but a truckload of FastReports stuff, so I temporarily needed their ReportBuilder for XE2 to just load in Delphi XE8 at design time so I could migrate.
Apparently not all the ReportBuilder packages use the same namespace definitions. Even worse: they add various namespaces at various target levels in an inconsistent way, so it took me a bit more time than I originally hoped for sorting this out.
Below is what the original settings were: only the .\TeeChart\Win32\TeePro900 directory had TeeChart project files (the .\Source and .\TeeChart\Win32\TeeStd900 directories hadn’t) and all three had slightly different unit source files for TeeChart support.
Every now and then you want to know what units your project is made of. Not just the units require to build your project, but actually the ones ending up in the executable (i.e. not removed by the compiler or linker).
you can have the Delphi compiler show you a list of used .dcus by passing –depends when you compile a project. It will output a .d file with a list of the .dcus (and .dcps) that were required.
It does work from the IDE if you check “use MSBuild externally”
The msbuild property setting is available in at least Delphi/C++Builder versions 2007 and 2010..Berlin as it is in CodeGear.Cpp.Targets and CodeGear.Delphi.Targets/RTL.Build.targets for BDS versions 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18. It might be available in versions 2005/2006/2009 as well but I don’t have these lying around any more.
So I fired up Process Monitor and looked for file access patterns (see dump below), that all were OK.
Then I opened Windows Explorer and saw freshly generated .DRC files marked as some type of VLC Player file. I’ve had loads of trouble with VLC in the past, but I inherited this PC so I didn’t notice VLC Player was installed by the previous developer.
Lesson learned: when starting a gig, always request a fresh PC
So I uninstalled VLC Player and now everything works fine.
It’s Delphi, but I’ve not seen practical implementations in C# either.
(the updated version thanks to Anders Melander).
–jeroen
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Since I wanted to follow his “blog” (which is sort of a collection of WordPress pages, mainly about the programming OTA: the Open Tools API interface to Delphi and C++ Builder), I was looking for the RSS feed.
… Only a perfect licensing system would actually do you any good, and there’s no such thing. And in the age of the Internet, if your system isn’t perfect, all it takes is for one person anywhere in the world to produce a crack and upload it somewhere,
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If you want people to pay for your software instead of just downloading it, the one and only way to do so is to make your software good enough that people are willing to pay money for it….
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 