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Delphi Galileo IDE (version 8 and up): Force files to be saved as UTF8 – The Oracle at Delphi

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/04

Though formatting mangled the registry key to add, the article is interesting: since 2003 (C# Builder 1), you can force the IDE to always save files as UTF8 which should alleviate a lot of encoding problems.

It beats me why this isn’t the default setting, but below is an example .reg file for Delphi 8 which should be easily transformed to more recent Delphi versions:


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\2.0\Editor]
"DefaultFileFilter"="Borland.FileFilter.UTF8ToUTF8"

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Delphi8-Force-IDE-to-write-files-as-UTF8.reg

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So basically (if formatting is kept), you browse to this key (replace Borland with the company for your specific Delphi version, and replace 2.0 by your IDE version):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\16.0\Editor

Then you add a new string value named DefaultFileFilter with value Borland.FileFilter.UTF8ToUTF8

More background [WayBack] The Oracle at Delphi: More IDE secrets – UTF8 and the Editor

The unmangled registry key (and more tips) was from [WayBack] BSC Polska: Hidden possibilities of Delphi 8.

Get the list of HKEY_CURRENT_USER paths for your Delphi version at Update to List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 shows HKCU/HKLM keys and doesn’t truncated fields any more.

–jeroen

Via: [WayBack] Is there any way (IDE expert?) to automatic set encoding of each PAS file in UTF-8 instead of ANSI? – Jacek Laskowski – Google+

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[dcc32 Warning] “W1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘operator explicit'”

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/03

If the Delphi compiler throws a Source: "W1025 Unsupported language feature: 'operator explicit'" at you, then it is likely that you forgot this, as per Uwe Raabe:

In the project options set “C/C++ Output file generation” to “Generate DCUs only” to get rid of the warning.

Via: [WayBack] Delphi Community Edition Rant. Just installed Delphi CE from the 3rd attempt. Two times I tried to install all features – both times the installer fell… – Sergey Kasandrov – Google+

Note that the documentation still indicates that W1025 has been documented since at least Delphi 2007 ([WayBack] x1025: Unsupported language feature: ‘%s’) as a C++ header translation issue, and still is ([WayBack] X1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘%s’ (Delphi) – RAD Studio), despite other causes (like "W1025 Unsupported language feature: 'custom attribute'") fail if you have only installed the Delphi personality.

–jeroen

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[RSP-19007] Form ScaleConstraints Fail – Embarcadero Technologies

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/02

[WayBack] [RSP-19007] Form ScaleConstraints Fail – Embarcadero Technologies

Via [WayBack] +Uwe Raabe Did Embarcadero fix TControl.ScaleConstraints() in the latest version? Do you have a patch for that? Simply changing the properties Min* agai… – Attila Kovacs – Google+

Fix: [WayBack] pisil.de/Patch.ScaleConstraints.pas 

// Workaround for TControl.ScaleConstraints bug
// Usage:
// Put "PatchScaleConstraints;" into the dpr right after "Application.Initialize;"

–jeroen

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Interesting thread on how to approach Hi-DPI and DPI changes with FMX in Delphi

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/02

Interesting read: [WayBack] Is there an “How-To Guide: Upgrading Your Delphi FMX Applications To Support 4K Displays” out there ? I’ve only found VCL examples… – Stéphane Wierzbicki – Google+

–jeroen

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SequoiaView Homepage

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/07/01

I thought I had scheduled a blog post about the great tool on [WayBack] SequoiaView Homepage, but didn’t. In the mean time, Paolo Buffa posted an overview with a really nice historic perspective:

Is amazing from how many years I’m using this program, and how many operating systems it managed to go thru almost unscathed, without modification.

Paolo Buffa

Source: [Archive.is] SequoiaView: a piece of history. – Data Center IT – Spiceworks

I still use it, despite it being quite old: 2002 era, written in Delphi 5. It’s beautiful in part because of its anciency, but also because it is so simple and intuitive that I still use it regularly.

The age also shows in the web page (which when writing it was still on-line): The SequiaView home page link above is actually a classic frame inside [WayBack] The SequoiaView Homepage. Back then, it was already starting to be considered obsolete to write HTML using frameset [WayBack] Framing (World Wide Web) – Wikipedia.

The SequoiaView [WayBack] Download Page even points to non-existing ftp-download URLs via counter CGI scripts:

None of them have been archived by the WayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web//ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/home/sequoia//

To verify alternative downloads, just check these hashes:

hash command filename hash output
$ md5 Sequoia1.3Install.zip MD5 (Sequoia1.3Install.zip) = 28d356f2bafe258805794257c284a075
$ md5 Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe MD5 (Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe) = 142586a5cc7a0139bde8c13e5cc4d301
$ shasum Sequoia1.3Install.zip 762ab30177a7f6a0d4f173fd2442ba7b61df4c2e Sequoia1.3Install.zip
$ shasum Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe c1db10a0f7d36adbc14b5a7a3f08fc35db1bee8b Sequoia1_3XPInstall.exe

I’ve a copy in my archive that I just use in a portable way: just copy over SequoiaView directory with these files in it:

  • Archives.col
  • DEFAULT.COL
  • Images.col
  • License.txt
  • Movies.col
  • ReleaseNotes.txt
  • Sequoia.cnt
  • Sequoia.exe
  • SEQUOIA.HLP
  • Sound.col

You can download this from gist.github.com/jpluimers/b0df9c2dba49010454ca6df406bc5f3d (ef94f1875377f4054e3a434f8942e1749f0af74a.zip).

A few things that could be fixed (if ever hopefully MagnaView open sources it: [WayBack] @jpluimers More @magnaview did you ever consider to open source the Delphi code for http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ or give someone NDA access to fix some bugs?):

  • Access violation when re-scanning a drive
  • Option to show multiple links to the same physical file
  • Indication of more rights  needed to index a file or directory
  • Better explorer integration (via context menu)

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MMX Needs New Icons – Are You Willing To Help? – MMX

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/30

[WayBack] MMX Needs New Icons – Are You Willing To Help? – MMX:

I am pretty sure all of you already noticed: The current icons in MMX not only look a bit old, they also don’t look well on the Dark Theme. They are not alpha blended and are only available in 16 x 16 pixel size. This may become a problem when the IDE will support High DPI in the future.

Unfortunately the stock icons available in the market simply don’t fit the purpose of most of the individual icons needed, so custom designed icons seem to be mandatory.

…

I have been asked several times where people can donate to support the development of MMX. While I am still not planning to accept donations for the time I am going to invest in the development, donating for the icons is a good way to show your gratitude. If you are not a able or willing to donate – that’s OK. Anyway, please consider to spread the word about this.

Many thanks to all that already donated and those who are going to do so.

For those still looking for the link to the MoneyPool, here it is: https://www.paypal.com/pools/c/8e4alQxGzA

–jeroen

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The Delphi compiler has a hard time coping with circular unit references

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/27

In [WayBack] Anyone here with an “F2092 Program or unit ‘?’ recursively uses itself” error in Tokyo? I have this error in Tokyo but the same project compiles ok in Berlin… – Luis Madaleno – Google+, I commented this:

Large circular reference cycles can trip the compiler into emitting this error (next to out-of-memory errors, access violations and internal errors and “unitX.pas F2063 Could not compile used unit ‘unitY.pas'”).

Solution that usually works: quit Delphi, delete .DCU files, start Delphi, build all, then compile. Cumbersome, time consuming, but since the error is intermittent and involves large code bases, it’s was hard to get it to R&D back in the days.

–jeroen

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WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/25

For my link archive: [WayBack] WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter

Via: [WayBack] Does anyone know of a C/C++ to Delphi converter? – Michael Riley – Google+

–jeroen

Posted in C, Delphi, Development, Software Development | 2 Comments »

missing TPopupMenu feature: checking for visibility

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/25

a method to detect when the menu was closed without a selection (i.e. none of the menuitem OnClick handlers fired). Add the unit below to your project and the form the popup menu is on will receive the custom messages defined in the unit when the menu appears or closes.

The solution by Peter Below in ExPopupList works from D5 on:  [Archive.is] missing TPopupMenu features? – Google Groups.

Now you can hook the [WayBack] TControl.OnContextPopup Event for a [WayBack] TPopupMenu activation, and the custom Windows messages CM_MENUCLOSED, CM_ENTERMENULOOP and CM_EXITMENULOOP to monitor the state of the popup menu.

Via:

–jeroen

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To use the – undocumented – GetItCmd.exe CLI version of the GetIt package manager, run rsvars.bat first – via G+

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/20

Interesting observation on [WayBack] How do you use the CLI version of GetIt Package Manager. I always get a “no items were found.” response. As usual, the EMBT wiki is total rubbish and do… – Graeme Geldenhuys – Google+.

What you need for GetItCmd, is to run rsvars.bat for your Delphi version first, which is exactly what [WayBack] Run-Dependend-rsvars-From-Path.bat – which I wrote a while ago – does.

I did not even know that there was a CLI equivalent of [WayBack] GetIt – RAD Studio , but it is there, totally undocumented: GetItCmd apart from two filename references on the French and German docwiki:

Apart from that, I could only find these links:

Another odd thing: rsvars.bat is also not documented, and has just one reference in the docwiki: [WayBack] Using CMake with C++ Builder – RAD Studio.

The use of rsvars.bat is simple: it sets the below environment variables (some older versions set less variables, like missing PLATFORM or PlatformSDK) for use with the IDE (bds32.exe), msbuild and GetIt.

BDS
BDSINCLUDE
BDSCOMMONDIR
FrameworkDir
FrameworkVersion
FrameworkSDKDir
PATH
LANGDIR
PLATFORM
PlatformSDK

(some of these are set to empty to they at least exist)

Later on, Marco Cantu reacted

The command line version of GetIt is not stable, so it was never “promoted” to being a feature. It was a tentative feature, we likely removed the English doc, but translations remained — so having that documentation is kind of an error. We ship is as we use it, with a specific command that works and is safe. In other words, use it as your own risk, as it is not an official feature.

So apparently, the only way that GetIt works, is through a specific command in GetItCmd. From an architectural point of view that gives me a  “lets get this tick on the feature matrix done no matter what the architectural consequences are” feeling.

–jeroen

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