Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/17
Of interest – despite the known issues and LUKS workaround through WSL – mainly as the majority was written in Delphi: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
Found when researching TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Related: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/10
From a while ago: [Wayback/Archive] TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Besides me referring to my blog post Delphi – Frames as visual Components – don’t forget your Sprig!, these were important comments and answers with notes by myself:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/20
Every once in a while I discover an answer I have not yet put on my blog, especially as related answer are always interesting.
This is one that didn’t make it until now: [Wayback/Archive] Exceptions and DLL in Delphi – Stack Overflow (thanks [Wayback/Archive] jpfollenius, [Wayback/Archive] Deltics and [Wayback/Archive] Lars Truijens)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/06
Now that I re-wrote my 2012 talk on Class Operators and Helpers and presented it in Delphi at the ITDevCon2024 ([Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon | Home – Rome, 2024), see [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – jpluimers/ITDevCon2024: Temporary ITDevCon2024 repository until I fixed the «git checkout “Illegal byte sequence”» of my Conferences repository, here is an idea to check out if I can implement it in Delphi:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/01
Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement.
After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments and finally upgrading most of my projects to recent enough C# versions, it was time to catch up on useful little C# language features released during my treatments.
This one is really nice: [Wayback/Archive] File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn.
I wish it had been released much earlier, as it so much reminds me of the unit keyword in Delphi which influenced C# a lot. Well, actually the unit actually started in UCSD Pascal and Turbo Pascal; UCSD Pascal ran on the UCSD p-Machine (more on that in a future blog post), which influenced the Java Virtual Machine, which was based on Java bytecode and a Just-in-time compiler in turn influenced the .NET Common Language Runtime.
There are many examples from other languages, paradigms and frameworks: I love how C# and .NET bring so much programming history together.
In Delphi it is easy: a source file can contain at maximum one unit (and apart from files included in that source file, no other source files can contribute to that unit) and the filename needs to match the unitname, so the unit is a self contained namespace.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/30
With the huge dependency of Delphi on the LLVM project – basically none of their cross-platform support falls apart without LLVL – I wonder how much Embarcadero and their. mother company Idera contributed back to the LLVM project (which isn’t hard, see [Wayback/Archive] Contributing to LLVM — LLVM 20.0.0git documentation).
I tried these queries with remarkably few results:
The ones found were contributed by [Wayback/Archive] jwiegley (John Wiegley) · GitHub and [Wayback/Archive] atoker · GitHub. I could not find back who atoker is, but John Wiegley was part of the C++ Builder 1 team [Wayback/Archive] The C++Builder 25th Anniversary: Visual Development, the Power of the C++ Language and 2.5 decades of Continuing Excellence but made the patches while working for Boostpro, for instance [Wayback/Archive] [cfe-commits] PATCH [1/2]: Implementation of Embarcadero expression traits.
Hoping the above queries are not good enough: anyone having a more complete idea of the Embarcadero/Idera contributions to the LLVM project?
Especially in the light of this bsky post a while ago:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/29
Somewhere in the drafts was a note to refer to an old Chris Bensen blog post on the Embarcadero server: blogs.embarcadero.com/cbensen/2005/12/07/22388
Alas, a lot of Embarcadero stuff is gone, some because of Idera not caring, others because as of Codegear, the team never was good at keeping infrastructure alive, nor cater for proper archiging at the Wayback Machine.
Luckily, the Borland days were different, as I found by browsing web.archive.org/web//http://blogs.borland.com/: almost 10k archived pages!
Searching for cbensen or 22388 then got me the actual post [Wayback/Archive] Delphi 2006 Hidden COM Registry Entries (the last link is dead, the others not indexed by search engines) and quoted below while adding some formatting: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/24
A while ago I found out that gist.github.com/lynatan/673e574faa8343fa01d7a91e75065c54 which I mentioned before in Delphi analog to C# ?? null-coalescing operator and Light Table like debugger evaluation and I wanted to
The reason was that I was working on the [WaybackSave/Archive] bit Time Professionals on X: “Live now: “Hidden Gems of Delphi Language: Operator Overloading and Class/Record helpers” @jpluimers” session which I presented at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Home where I also could enjoy the company of the other [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon 2024 | Speakers and the famous [Wayback/Archive] IT DevCon 2024 speaker dinner (which attendees can also join for a slight surcharge).
The presentation is at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024/delphi_language_hidden_gems/delphi_language_hidden_gems.md at main · jpluimers/ITDevCon2024 · GitHub and pictures of the event at [Wayback/Archive] ITDevCon2024 – Google Photos.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/16
Just in case I ever think “oh, I might try want to go the Variadic function arguments way in Delphi” again, I must remember “maybe not a good idea” and re-read these posts:
varargs.h – Wikipedia (now in [Wayback/Archive] stdarg.h – Wikipedia) with the identifiers va_list, va_start, va_arg, and va_end.cdecl functions may use varargs (Delphi) – RAD Studio (I already knew this, but it is good to have that bit linked here as well)varargs support got introduced in Delphi 6: for external cdecl functions.varargs:Fortunately, since Delphi 6, you can declare external functions like
wsprintfusing thevarargsdirective.
TVarArgList, VarArgStart, VarArgGetValue, and VarArgEnd.Note that this example, despite the description indicates it is, it is actually not varargs by array of const (which requires using TVarRec as under the hood it is an open array of TVarRec): [Wayback/Archive] How to create functions that can accept variable number of parameters such as Format().
Then some Free Pascal links, which is different from, but also similar to Delphi:
Queries:
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/09
This is soooo cool: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PluMGMK/vbesvga.drv: Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1
Modern Generic SVGA driver for Windows 3.1This is a rewrite of the Windows 3.1 SVGA driver, designed to support ALL available 8-bit, 16-bit, 24-bit or 32-bit graphic modes on any system providing the VESA BIOS Extensions (hence theVBEin the name). It is based on the Video 7 SVGA driver included in the Win16 Driver Development Kit, with most of the hardware-specific code gutted out, and with support added for multi-byte pixels.
Related:
svgapatch.zip properly archived.
svgapatch.zip downloadable from [Wayback/Archive] www.japheth.de/dwnload1.html at Wayback svgaptch.zip with the file being web.archive.org/web/20250106100041/https://www.japheth.de/Download/Win16/svgaptch.zip.It reminds me of other endevours to keep retro-software easy to use: Read the rest of this entry »
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 