Archive for the ‘Delphi’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/05
There is an interesting G+ discussion thread about generic Dictionaries in Delphi.
It covers the stock TObjectDictionary in the Generic.Collections unit, Spring4D, performance characteristics like O(1), O(log n), etc, and implementation details like fill factors and hashing algorithms.
Worth reading at Steve Maughan – Google+ – TObjectDictionary Advice Needed I’ve been using Delphi for….
Since TObjectDictionary hasn’t changed much since the introduction of generics in Delphi, this discussion is valid for at least Delphi XE and up (and probably Delphi 2010 and 2009 as well).
I’m not sure about these last ones as like Andreas Hausladen, I’m cutting back on the Delphi versions I regularly use, which for now are mainly XE6, XE3, XE and 2007).
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 7, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/05/02
IP geolocation is hard, and very dependent on where you are in the world. Providers giving different or confusing results are not exceptional.
See the struggle at Dan Sohad – Google+ – Hi! I working in a IP locate app. I’m using as “motors”: … where Dan Sohad tries a Delphi implementation.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Development, Geolocation, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
Years after Allen Bauer and a few others wrote about Delphi MultiCast events, the Spring4D framework now supports MultiCast events on 3 platforms:
Depending on the platform, the minimum required Delphi version is this (the develop branch builds in Delphi XE6):
- Win32: Delphi 2010 and up.
- Win64: Delphi XE2 and up.
- MacOSX: Delphi XE2 and up.
There are plans for support on Mobile platforms, and Spring4D needs help with that:
- The Intel implementation is written in Assembly, and fast.
- The Arm compiler does not allow Assembly language for various reasons.
So there is a need for an ARM solution not based on assembly in the Delphi code, preferably as cross-platform as possible. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2010, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, QC, Software Development, Spring4D | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
After finding out that Raize Components 6 and Raize Components 5 updates for Delphi XE6 I checked Raize Software‘s latest news page and was glad to see that these also got updates:
The only one not yet having XE6 support is this one:
–jeroen
via: Raize Software Developer Tools.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/22
Just found out that a new version of Raize Components 6 with Delphi XE6 support got released.
Raize Components 6 actually supports Delphi 2009 through XE6 (and C++ Builder and RAD Studio).
Older Delphi versions are also supported by older Raize Component versions, as Ray Konopka posted last year:
via Raize Software Support Forums • View topic – Installing multiple versions of the Raize Components.
(In the above quote, I included the links to the various trial versions).
There is also the famous Demo program download RCDemo.zip and nice videos:
via Raize Components Demo/Trial Edition.
For the dot version nitpickers, here are the current versions as of writing: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/21
Interesting: Roman Yankovsky just wrote about a property syntax that I didn’t know about either:
Today I learned… :)
I didn’t know about this syntax for properties:
FStrings: array [0..1] of string;
property String0: string read FStrings[0] write FStrings[0];
property String1: string read FStrings[1] write FStrings[1];
Now I hope someone finds out in which Delphi version this syntax was introduced.
–jeroen
via: Roman Yankovsky – Google+ – Today I learned… :) I didn’t know about this syntax for….
Posted in Delphi, Development, Software Development | 10 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/19
GExperts 1.37 (commit 875, but no tag yet) now supports Delphi XE6 and XE5, and ahost of older Delphi versions. Binary downloads are available at Download | GExperts
These were the release news items:
In addition to what is in those items, 1.37contain a substantial speed improvement and some other fixes from me (I hope this fix also will get in later) in the Grep Search.
It is likely that this will be the last GExperts that support Pre-Delphi-2007 versions (currently 2006, 2005, 8.02, 7.1 and 6.02).
It is not clear if there will be a GExperts for Appmethod, as Appmethod does not provide functioning command-line compilers like I already blogged about in Spring4D now has projects for Appmethod, but it cannot support Appmethod in the automated build engine.
You can get an Experimental GExperts version for Delphi XE6..6.02 (that includes a source formatter) from Experimental GExperts Version » twm’s blog.
From Thomas Mueller (the author of the experimental GExperts versions), there are also a few other interesting blog posts you probably will like:
–jeroen
via: Download | GExperts.
Posted in Appmethod, Delphi, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Development, Software Development | Tagged: GExperts | 6 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16
I just watched the 2nd Launch Webinar Today for Delphi XE6, C++Builder XE6 and RAD Studio XE6.
Below my signature is the Q&A of it. A whole lot of them (:
–jeroen
Welcome to this Embarcadero webinar event!
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE6, Development, Diagram, QC, Software Development, UML | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/04/16
Thanks Olivier SCHWAB for pointing me to this nice interview with Florian Klämpfl on SourceForge about April 2014 Project of the Month, Free Pascal | SourceForge Community Blog.
Two things I didn’t know yet:
- FreePascal started in the Turbo Pascal era (the first version was before Delphi 1.0 got released) as a 32-bit compiler project.
- FreePascal 3.0 will support jvm output (like Oxygene does).
Besides Florian, there are quite a few more people on the FreePascal team. I met most of them at last years PasCon: really nice guys.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Development, FreePascal, Object Pascal, Oxygene, Pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal | Tagged: Free Pascal, FreePascal, sourceforge, Turbo Pascal era | 5 Comments »
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