Archive for the ‘Delphi 1’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/20
Right now, documentation on Delphi Conditional Defines is on pages like Conditional compilation (Delphi) – RAD Studio XE2, but it is limited as it is for one specific version of Delphi only.
However, over the course of Delphi versions, compiler platforms and bitness, and not forget Free Pascal and Turbo Pascal/Borland Pascal, the matrix has become huge.
There is no complete documentation on that in one place. Right now include files like Defines.inc, the DSPack.inc, the JCL include directory the JVCL common include directory and the Jedi.inc documentation contain the collective knowledge about this.
Someone should condense that in a table and – more important – keep it up to date.
At least now there is a post collecting some of the links that contain the knowledge (:
Found one that contains these columns
- Product & Version
- VERxxx defines
- __BORLANDC__ value
- RTLVersion
- CompilerVersion
- Package Version
via Compiler/RTL version overview « Muetze1 wich is now available on the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20131229055045/http://www.muetze1.de/?page_id=547
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15
I mailed the DelphiFeeds people to add the MonkeyStyler Blog by Mike Sutton.
It is a nice Delphi related blog focussing on FireMonkey stuff.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/14
18 years ago, Delphi 1 was launched (still not sure if valentine’s day was a good idea for a product launch).
I wonder – when writing this long before valentine’s day – if the matureness of Delphi finally introduced real undo/redo in the form designer.
Probably still a dream, but still…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/06
One of the really nice contributions on StackOverflow by Allen Bauer is almost 3 years ago.
It is about these three Delphi VCL methods introduced by TWinControl to make control development easier:
The really cool thing is that this API has been stable since 1995, and still allows you to subclass windows controls or create your own controls in a very simple way.
Note that Allen does not cover DestroyWnd or DestroyWindowHandle, but those are just counterparts of CreateWnd and CreateWindowHandle.
In normal Delphi application code, you have less Destroy overrides than Create overrides, and the same holds for control development.
–jeroen
via: delphi – What’s the difference between CreateWnd and CreateWindowHandle? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Software Development | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/09/24
Remanence of the PC computing past: Intel MCS-86 Assembly Language Reference Guide on bitsavers.org in http://bitsavers.org/pdf/intel/8086.
Intel MCS-86 is/was the 16-bit range of x86 processors.
I used it in BASM (not only in Delphi 1 and up, it started in Turbo Pascal 6), and before that in MASM, NASM, and TASM.
–jeroen
Posted in Assembly Language, BitSavers.org, Delphi, Delphi 1, Development, History, Software Development, x86 | Tagged: assembly language, computer, Delphi, delphi 1, intel, intel 8086, intel assembly, intel mcs, language reference guide, nasm, pc computing, pdf, technology, turbo pascal 6, x86 processors | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2009/10/15
Edit 20140822 since originally posting, JEDI moved to a GIT repository, so I changed some URLs and added that it is up to date until Delphi XE7.
Finding the correct VERxxx conditional define for a particular Delphi version is asked by a lot of people.
Even the first link in the above search, does not contain the full list!
But: JCL comes to the rescue
The JCL file JEDI.INC usually (read: like 99.999% of the time) is up to that with that information soon.
Currently, it contains all the defines starting with Delphi 1, up to Delphi 2010 XE7.
You can always browse the to JEDI.INC with this link to the sourceforge trunk. link to the GitHub master version.
In fact that file contains a lot more useful defines.
Actually, having the JCL and/or JVCL at hand is a very good practice: it is filled with high quality code that solves a lot of everyday problems.
Note:
VER190 (by some people attributed to the wrong Delphi version) is only used by Delphi 2007 for .NET (Delphi 2007 for Win32 used VER185 by itself and shares VER180 with Delphi 2006 for Win32).
The number 13 (in between Delphi 2009 aka Delphi 12, and Delphi 2010 aka Delphi 14) was never used as a Delphi version number
Since Delphi is mainly developed in the USA, and since a lot people there have Triskaidekaphobia, they showed mercy to those and skipped Delphi 13.
–jeroen
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