Archive for the ‘Delphi 2007’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2019/02/27
There are six variations; only one can be active at a time:
Delphi Office 2000 Servers Package
Delphi Office XP Servers Package
Delphi Office 2010 Servers Package
C++Builder Office 2000 Servers Package
C++Builder Office XP Servers Package
C++Builder Office 2010 Servers Package
via: I cannot get MS Office sample automation server wrapper components. Neither of… [WayBack ]
More in depth article explaining all the nitty gritty details: There Can Only Be One! Handling Different Versions of Design Packages inside the IDE | The Art of Delphi Programming [WayBack ]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/02
These search the Delphi 2007 docs:
Similar for Delphi 2009 docs
The second ones search just English, and the first searches all languages.
Given the Google search indexing, the first might give a lot of Japanese search results:
https://www.google.com/#q=site:docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/radstudio2007/RS2007_helpupdates/HUpdate4+TPanel
I made shortcuts for the English one in Chrome:
I did the same for the docwiki (where you cannot distinguish between languages in a generic way for all Delphi versions, as the language comes after the Delphi version and the kind of documentation (CodeExamples, Libraries, etc.)):
Reasoning:
It’s the earliest Delphi version having documentation on-line in HTML format.
The foundations of the RTL/VCL structure has not changed since then
The links can be archived in the WayBack machine and still look nice after archiving (no CSS fuzz that makes archived pages hard to read)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/09
When upgrading Windows, it will create a fully new %windir% for you.
Any files an application installed files in them will be gone, and appear in a %HomeDrive%\Windows.old
If you’ve deleted that directory because you thought all your applications worked, or the Windows 10 upgrade automagically deleted the Windows.old directory by itself after some grace period , then you might be in trouble.
One of those applications is Delphi 2007. I wrote about a different issue on x64 Windows on that product before: Delphi on Windows x64: solution when project compiles fine under IDE, but not using MSBuild .
Basically it puts these files in %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727:
Borland.Common.TargetsBorland.Cpp.TargetsBorland.Delphi.TargetsBorland.Group.Targets
Those will be gone if you deleted the Windows.old directory.
If you are lucky , the files are also in this directory to copy back to %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727 and %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727:
C:\ProgramData\{B59CE2E6-B15A-4F23-BD0E-72BF2ADDC3C7}\core\7EFD2DA3\6C948720
And if you’re not, you can find them here too: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ab801cd925e5e634518fd5592eb2a46e
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/11
When accessing the VCL from multiple threads at the same time: adopted from …\DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR
Great question a while ago:
[WayBack ] “Don’t access VCL from a background thread” – how to demo that? – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+
For me, the ultimate way why not to access the VCL from a background thread is the precursor of the official threads demo that ships from Delphi 2 to Delphi XE6 in ...DEMOS\THREADS\THRDDEMO.DPR...DEMOS\THREADS\ThSort.pas ...DEMOS\THREADS\SortThds.pas
The first public showing of that demo did not include main thread protection. It originates from a session at the the 1995 Borland Developers Conference where Ray Konopka showed the below code from Bob Ainsbury.
That session reminded why this joke [WayBack ] Via the EKON20 sessions… – Jeroen Wiert Pluimers – Google+ was so funny: “When Ray Konopka enters the room you have a Raize condition. “.
The question above also made me find back this reference to BorCon95 in San Diego:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/06/29
I forgot to schedule the post below. It is still relevant if you create a machine with lots of Delphi versions on it.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/24
Thomas Pfister came with a nice solution to this question:
[WayBack ] Does anyone know how to embed a superscript Registered symbol in a Rave memo buffer? – Phillip Woon – Google+
Since Google has such bad indexing of G+, here is the solution:
procedure TForm4.RvSystem1Print(Sender: TObject);
const
SuperscriptOn = RPTFPrefix + RPTFSuperscript + RPTFOn + RPTFSuffix; // from RpDefine.pas
SuperscriptOff = RPTFPrefix + RPTFSuperscript + RPTFOff + RPTFSuffix;
var
MemoBuf: TMemoBuf;
begin
MemoBuf := TMemoBuf.Create;
try
MemoBuf.Text := 'Test' + SuperscriptOn + '®' + SuperscriptOff + ' Test';
MemoBuf.PrintStart := 0.5;
MemoBuf.PrintEnd := 8.0;
with Sender as TBaseReport do begin
PrintMemo(MemoBuf, 1, true);
end;
finally
FreeAndNil(MemoBuf);
end;
end;
–jeroen
Source: Does anyone know how to embed a superscript Registered symbol in a Rave memo …
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/18
Reminder to self that I one day need to write more about this enumerator:
[WayBack ] jeroenp / BeSharp.net / source / Native / Delphi / Library / Data / DataSetEnumeratorUnit.pas — Bitbucket
It’s not nearly as good as the one by Uwe Raabe, but I didn’t really update this code for about a decade as it has functioned well for me in the current state: in 2009 it was like [WayBack ] bo library – Source Code .
Code by Uwe is at [WayBack ] Dataset Enumerator Reloaded | The Art of Delphi Programming via [WayBack ] Refurbishing old code: http://www.uweraabe.de/Blog/2017/02/09/dataset-enumerator-reloaded/ – Uwe Raabe – Google+
A couple of years ago I wrote a two-part article about a dataset enumerator: A Magical Gathering – Part 1 and Part 2 . Well, things evolved a bit since then and I wondered how one would implement something similar given the current features of Delphi. Actually I am following here a suggestion from commenter Alan Clark.
So for now it’s just to document that my enumerator is there and that it works as intended.
I referenced an older version at [WayBack ] For-in Enumeration – ADUG as I used it at Spoken @ CodeRage III, December 1-5, 2008 on Delphi, database and XML related topics and Source: Conferences/2009/DelphiLive.2009/Smarter-code-with-databases-and-data-aware-controls .
A small video on how you use it is here:
VIDEO
It was back when Better Office and CodeGear still existed and we celebrated (late ) Gwan Tan’s 50th birthday.
O the days (:
More history:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/05
For a very long time I’ve discouraged people from using non-ASCII characters in identifiers. It still holds.
In the past, transliterations messed things up. Even with increased support for Unicode, tools still screw non-ASCII characters up.
Delphi is not alone in this (the most important one is the DFM view as text support), see this report: [RSP-16767] Viewing a form as text fails with non ascii control or event names – Embarcadero Technologies (you need an account for this, but the report is visible for anyone):
Viewing a form as text fails with non ascii control or event names Comment
Steps:
create a new VCL forms application
drop a label onto the form
change the name of that label to lblÜberfall (note the U-umlaut )
switch to view as text
exp: DFM content shown as text
act: first line is shown incorrectly (see screenhsot)
–jeroen
Source: [RSP-16767] Viewing a form as text fails with non ascii control or event names – Embarcadero Technologies
via: [WayBack ] Code of the day – – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+ :
function TNameGenerator.StrasseToStrasse(const _Strasse: string): string;
…
Strasse := StrasseToStrasse(_Strasse);
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/05
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