This is the way a wiki should work:
Thanks Simon Stuart for asking, and many others (especially Johan) for providing the info.
Note the version that is missing (;
–jeroen
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The way a wiki should work: List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/21
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Happy Birthday AppBuilder^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Delphi
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/14
Normal people would give Valentine presents today.
But 20 years ago, Borland thought it was a nice idea to release Delphi. Then a revolutionary new tool and lots of scepticism. Now – after 20 years – still going strong, despite all kinds of funny things that management at Borland, InPrise, etc did and the wild ride the market had.
Happy birthday Delphi!
–jeroen
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My wish for Delphi: Please bring multi-level undo/redo functionality in the Delphi designer (form, datamodule, etc).
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/02/13
After a hectic week bringing back memories from a long time ago, I remembered the really early Delphi days.
Long before [WayBack] QC2747, back when it was still called AppBuilder, several people – including me – made the wish for an undo/redo functionality on the Delphi compuserve board.
Back then, the argument was that the designer needed to be restructured to do that. Now that it has – to accommodate FMX – and it is time, especially for the vast majority of Delphi users primarily using the designers to get work done.
So my wish, after 20+ years of Delphi use:
Please bring multi-level undo/redo functionality in the Delphi designer (form, datamodule, etc).
–jeroen
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Which Delphi extensions to (not) put in version control: Delphi File Extensions – Delphi Programming (via Delphi.wikia.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/10
Convenient list to decide what to put in your version control system: Delphi File Extensions – Delphi Programming.
–jeroen
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Delphi prebuild/prelink/postbuild events
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/20
Ever since the Delphi build engine got changed to MS Build in Delphi 2007, many people use Delphi build events. Their order is prebuild, prelink and postbuild (or maybe better spelled pre-build, pre-link and post-build).
Before Delphi 2007, you had to fiddler with project groups and dependencies to fake pre-build and post-build events. For an example see Pre and Post-Build Automation in Delphi.
One of the really good things about these events is that build events appear in the output tab of the messages window.
One of the really bad things is that there is hardly any documentation about the build events.
At least two important things are missing:
- How the lines of a build event are actually executed
- How parameter expansion works inside build events
Let’s explain these. Read the rest of this entry »
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JCL & JVCL – What are the Real Gems in these Tool Sets
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/13
Steve Maughan posted a great question on G+ last week:
The resulting thread is full of people answering with their favorite JVCL and JCL gems.
Recommended reading!
–jeroen
via JCL & JVCL – What are the Real Gems in these Tool Sets I’ve just installed JCL….
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BeSharp.net: PowerShell script to show the component packages (BPL) files for all installed Delphi (actually: BDS) versions.
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/13
A while ago, I wrote a via PowerShell script to show the component packages (BPL) files for all installed Delphi (actually: BDS) versions (now at List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1) for a couple of reasons:
- I was creating installation instructions for getting new development machines set-up
- The new machines had to either have a minimum subset of installed Delphi versions + components, or the maximum superset of all the existing development machines
- Sifting through the installed Packages in the IDE, or registry by hand was cumbersome
Note that in the mean time (I queued this blog entry somewhere in 2013) the script has moved to BitBucket, I’ve written more scripts (like Dependencies.bat which is documented in Dependencies.md and Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat), all modified all scripts to support all BDS versions I had access to, and a write nice conference paper on Build Automation for Delphi that references the scripts.
Since none of the machines were using pre BDS installations, I could limit the script to BDS 1.0 and up.
The very first (1.0) version of BDS (also known as the Gailileo IDE foundation) was in fact not a Delphi version, but C# Builder 1.0. All Delphi versions since then are based on BDS. The script is based on the BDS registry keys I researched and wrote about in Files in your Delphi settings directory; How to relocate the Favourites on your Welcome page.
Since registry access can be very much flow based, the pipeline architecture of PowerShell is a good fit.
So I wrote a PowerShell script (:
Note Thomas Mueller has written a batch file around the same set of registry keys; the thread there also has some insight in the HKLM versus HKCU keys.
I will explain my script step by step, and start with the most important one: Set-StrictMode -Version Latest. Read the rest of this entry »
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Delphi: removing “unused” units from uses lists cannot be fully automated (via: SO)
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/11
One of the things a lot of Delphi users want is to be able to automagically remove unused units from their uses lists and projects.
The short answer is: you can’t.
The long answer starts with: you can’t fore a number of reasons.
Similar reasonings hold for many other development environments. Plain Windows EXEs and DLL dependencies. .NET projects and assembly dependencies, etc.
Initialization/Finalization dependency
The first reason is that each unit (module, assembly, or other dependency) can contain global code to be executed at unit start/load or finish/unload.
So even though you do not reference anything inside that unit, the initialization and finalization sections can be run.
Removing the dependency from your units and project, kills that functionality. And might break all sorts of things.
Load order dependency
Sometimes you have subtle load order dependencies of units. Those should be rare, and if they are there, should be enforced by the affected units themselves. But everyone knows those subtle dependencies are more often a by product not enforced by anything than coincidence.
So if you start removing references, the load order might change, and subtle bugs may occur.
In other words: test, test, test and test your codebase before and after removing unit references from uses lists.
Parsing
If you understands the dependencies of initializtion/finalization or load order, you will get interested to know what units are actually being used.
The ultimate source for this would be the Delphi compiler. Bad luck here: you cannot use it as the IDE and command-line interfaces don’t offer a hook to it to do just this.
So you need alternative parsers that can help out. The answers to How to remove unused units from all source files on Delphi XE2 describe a few and they all have the same drawback: they are not the Delphi compiler, so they are a rough approximation of what the compiler would do.
And even if the approximation would be perfect, they all suffer from the same thing the compiler suffers from: you can only have one set of conditional defines, platforms, etc at the same time.
There is lots of code for which the usage is conditional, but where the uses list does not reflect this.
Fazit
Optimizing uses lists to eliminate unused units seems a simple thing at start, but isn’t.
The best way to keep those optimized is to prune them while developing. So if you remove code, try to remember cutting down the uses lists by hand.
And then test, test, test and test your codebase.
–jeroen
via: ide – How to remove unused units from all source files on Delphi XE2? – Stack Overflow.
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Windows .RES/Resource editors
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/07
While researching the manifest problem I will post about next week, I made a short list of free Windows Resource Editors:
- ResEdit Resource Editor – free resource editor for Win32.
- Resource Editor | MelanderBlog.
(the download there is broken, but you can find it using Google; not maintained since 20110910). - Resource Hacker.
(not maintained since 20110916). - XN Resource Editor.
(not maintained since late 2005) - There is also ResEd – theunknownones – Short description of the ResEd Tool – All the things we develop and want to share with you – Google Project Hosting.
But it requires Delphi to run (it integrates as a BPL file).
All other resource editors I found were not free, and someof them not maintained for an even longer period than the free ones.
–jeroen
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Delphi and Batch Files
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/11/06
Two interesting links today about Delphi and Batch files.
- Using batch files to streamline your build process.
This is a really long post explaining a system of batch files to facilitate continuous integration using Batch files and the Delphi commandline compiers. - A workaround for calling batch files from within the Delphi IDE.
(the latter was much easier in Delphi 7 and older; the pre/post build commands are not batch files: they are commands stringed together using the ampersaond (&))
–jeroen
PS: If you want to see some serious Batch file and PowerShell related scripts, then read through the Build Automation part of my session materials I posted to ITDevCon and EKON session materials on Delphi Unit Testing + Build Automation and Continuous Integration on-line.
More details are in the batch files here:
and PowerShell scripts here:
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 