Archive for the ‘Delphi XE4’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/11/20
If you an error like below when compiling Delphi XE5 .dproj files using msbuild … then note the documentation for Debug information (Delphi) – RAD Studio. has not been updated yet as it still lists the values {$D+} or {$D-} {$DEBUGINFO ON} or {$DEBUGINFO OFF}.
(_PasCoreCompile target) -> C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\RAD Studio\12.0\Bin\CodeGear.Delphi.Targets(187,5): error F1026: File not found: 'False.dpr'
With Delphi XE5, you can specify 3 additional values: {$D1}, {$D2} and {$D0}, or {$DEBUGINFO 1}, {$DEBUGINFO 2} or {$DEBUGINFO 0}
In the msbuild .dproj files , the values are stored as DCC_DebugInformation elements. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Missed Schedule, SocialMedia, Software Development, WordPress | 13 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/05
The NEXTGEN family of Delphi compilers for the Mobile platforms changed quite a bit of things.
Most of it has been covered by various blogs posts. A non exhaustive list of ones I liked:
Those articles do not contain two things I had’t found about yet though that are important when you do RTTI using NEXTGEN in Delphi XE4: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, Encoding, Software Development, Unicode, UTF-8 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/01
While working on my Delphi: First try on an XSD for .groupproj files, I bumped into an error `Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema`.
I added a targetNamespace attribute to the GroupProj.xsd so the .grouproj files would use the right namespace.
That resulted into two funny errors:
- Namespace ” is not available to be referenced in this schema.
Visual Studio (which I normally use for editing XSD) would only throw this error on these elements:
<xsd:element ...>
So it would not throw them on nodes using the empty namespace.
That was really confusing!
- When validating .grouproj files using this GroupProj.xsd, I would get this error for all .groupproj files:
System.Xml.Schema.XmlSchemaValidationException: Type ‘<type>’ is not declared. (in this case for ‘<type>’ ‘ProjectType’).
That was odd too: the ‘ProjectType’ was indeed declared, and should be valid.
I could hardly find any information about the latter error, but the former gave a few useful hits.
Thanks User weston – Stack Overflow. for answering this: it made me smack to my head (like usual, a case of EBCAK). Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development, XML/XSD, XSD | Tagged: software, stack overflow, technology | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/31
Delphi introduced the .groupproj files to support MSBUILD.
I couldn’t find an XSD for it, but need to do some fiddling with those files, so I created one. It’s not very detailed, I think it gets most of the definition right.
The checkin is on my BeSharp.net mercurial repository on BitBucket:
First try on an XSD for .groupproj files.
–jeroen
via: jeroenp / BeSharp.net / commit / c122bbdef42e — Bitbucket.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/27
The Dutch stop of the RAD Studio In Action LIVE! tour is on September 7th.
The venue location is via Holiday Inn Leiden Hotels: Haagse Schouwweg 10, 2332 KG Leiden, The Netherlands.
It is close to the advertised “Amsterdam Netherlands” (about half an hour drive), close to the A44 highway and close enough to public transport. And it is indeed on Saturday September 7, 2013
Full day event: RAD Studio In Action LIVE! + conference track Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Android, Android Devices, CodePlex, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Event, FreePascal, git, iOS Development, Lazarus, Mercurial/Hg, Mobile Development, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceForge, Subversion/SVN, TFS (Team Foundation System) | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/21
It has been in the queue for a really long time. In fact, all started when chatting with Anders Ohlsson during the inception of the Embarcadero MVP program.
But then the paper work (you know, the thing with written signatures, fax machines, etc) got buried under some projects that lasted both a lot longer than initially anticipated, and were far more consuming also meaning I could not make it to the developer conferences I originally planned.
Recently, I dug out the paper work, then found out that Jim McKeeth – now leading the MVP program at Embarcadero – could lessen the paperwork substantially.
A few manual steps were still involved on both sides, but now I am on the MVP Directory | General.
There is more to it. This fall, I will not only be making it to, but also speaking during at least 3, maybe more Delphi related events in Europe:
Given the time frame, and increase of information about a Delphi for Android product, it might be out or available for beta blogging by then. You can sign up for the beta here, and according to the roadmap it is estimated for release later this year. I hope to be able to play with that soon enough to at least demo a few bits and pieces of it using my Nexus 4 and HTC Sensation on some of those events.
Hope to see some of you there!
–jeroen.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/26
During code reviews, I often see people do things like this:
if (not DirectoryExists(Path)) then
ForceDirectories(Path))
or this:
if (not TDirectory.Exists(Path)) then
TDirectory.CreateDirectory((Path))
Half a year ago, I wrote about .NET/C#: do not do “if (!Directory.Exists(path)) Directory.CreateDirectory(path))”. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development | 16 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/25
Replay video’s can be viewed through streaming.embarcadero.com (where you can also find the other series, downloads, etc).
The SummerSchool 2013 replay videos are at streaming.embarcadero.com/summerschool2013.
The Q&A from today’s session on “Accessing local storage” demonstrating iOS specifics in Delphi XE4: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development | Tagged: Delphi, embarcadero, iOS, OS, software, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/18
I bumped into the below answer that I gave a while (what is 4 years in a developer’s life ) on StackOverflow.
It is about Delphi Design Patterns. Sepcifically the Factory Pattern, and explains how virtual constructors implement it.
They are one of the 3 corner stones on which the component based Delphi form designer and object inspector are built:
- Virtual constructors
- Properties (events are just a special form of property)
- Run-Time Type Information.
So here it goes: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development | 6 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 