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Splitting user settings from your Delphi projects:  DprojSplitter by Uwe Raabe

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/20

Reminder to self to try this out: [WayBack] Working in a team? DprojSplitter might be helpful! | The Art of Delphi Programming.

The most recent version (covering a wider range of Delphi versions) was at [WayBack] DprojSplitter for Delphi XE2 to XE6 available | The Art of Delphi Programming.

DprojSplitter handles the current build configuration and current plattform. In addition these settings are handled, too (found in CommonOptionStrs):

sDebugger_RunParams,
sDebugger_RemoteRunParams,
sDebugger_HostApplication,
sDebugger_RemotePath,
sDebugger_RemoteHost,
sDebugger_EnvVars,
sDebugger_SymTabs,
sDebugger_Launcher,
sDebugger_RemoteLauncher,
sDebugger_IncludeSystemVars,
sDebugger_UseLauncher,
sDebugger_UseRemoteLauncher,
sDebugger_CWD,
sDebugger_RemoteCWD,
sDebugger_RemoteDebug,
sDebugger_DebugSourcePath,
sDebugger_LoadAllSymbols,
sDebugger_LoadUnspecifiedSymbols,
sDebugger_SymbolSourcePath

Heck, you can even configure the ones to split: [WayBack] Configuring DprojSplitter to Your Needs | The Art of Delphi Programming

–jeroen

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Pattern: Service Mesh

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/19

I need to re-read this: [WayBack] Pattern: Service Mesh

Via [WayBack] What is a Service Mesh? What is the purpose of Istio? – The Isoblog. /[Archive.is] What is a Service Mesh? What is the purpose of Istio in Kubernetes? … – Kristian Köhntopp – Google+:

An article by Phil Calçado explains the Container Pattern “Service Mesh” and why one would want that in a really nice way.

Phil uses early networking as an example, and explains how common functionality needed in all applications was abstracted out of the application code and moved into the network stack, forming the TCP flow control layer we have in todays networking.

A similar thing is happening with other functionality that all services that do a form of remote procedure call have to have, and we are moving this into a different layer. He then gives examples of the ongoing evolution of that layer, from Finagle and Proxygen through Synapse and Nerve, Prana, Eureka and Linkerd. Envoy and the resulting Istio project of CNCF are the current result of that development, but the topic is under research, still.

–jeroen

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Switching Delphi XML DOM vendors

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/18

I thought I had written a blog article on switching DOM vendors before, but in retrospect that was a conference presentation somewhere in 2011: https://github.com/jpluimers/Conferences/tree/master/2011/EKON15-Renaissance-Hotel-D%C3%BCsseldorf/Delphi-XE2-and-XML

I mentioned some of the materials at [WayBack] delphi – Reading distinct values from XML using XPath – Stack Overflow.

It was back in the days I worked for better office, Gwan Tan was still alive and CodePlex was still a thing. Now the code is at [WayBack] bo library – CodePlex Archive: An archive of the CodePlex open source hosting site.

Some recovered bits are at https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/98dcec944538fd6986fd2d51f7a79d8b#file-mainformunit-pas that shows the selection process of a TDOMVendor, how to log its capabilities and how to use it all in the method procedure TMainForm.LogDomVendor(const CurrentDomVendor: TDOMVendor);

Hopefully one day I can resurrect the code one day…

Over the years, the vendor list has not changed much [WayBack] Using the Document Object Model – RAD Studio documents these vendors.

Compared to Delphi 2007 and earlier, OmniXML has gone and ADOM has entered.

On the MSXML side, you can change which version you use too, as explained in Quick tip: using MSXML v6 with TXMLDocument in D7-D2007 – DelphiFeeds.com with the original article at [WayBack] Quick tip: using MSXML v6 with TXMLDocument in D7-D2007 | Delphi Haven.

Basically he overwrites MSXMLDOMDocumentCreate with a method creating the right MSXML DOM document. That has now been deprecated as [WayBack] Xml.Win.msxmldom.MSXMLDOMDocumentCreate – RAD Studio API Documentation now points to [WayBack] Xml.Win.msxmldom.TMSXMLDOMDocumentFactory.CreateDOMDocument – RAD Studio API Documentation.

List of Built-in XML Vendors

The following table shows a comparison of the XML vendors that RAD Studio supports by default:

Implementation Unit Global Variable Description
MSXML Xml.Win.msxmldom SMSXML Fastest of the built-in RAD Studio XML vendors. Windows only. Default.

For cross-platform support, you must choose a different XML vendor. If you do not specify a different XML vendor, your application does not have XML support on other platforms than Windows, and you see a run-time exception when you run your application in other platforms.
OmniXML Xml.omnixmldom sOmniXmlVendor Much faster than ADOM, but slightly slower than MSXML. Cross-platform.
ADOM Xml.adomxmldom sAdom4XmlVendor Slower than the other built-in RAD Studio XML vendors. Cross-platform.

–jeroen

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Desktop Duplication API in Delphi – CodeProject

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/18

Cool stuff: [WayBack] Desktop Duplication API in Delphi – CodeProject.

It is based on:

There is also a GitHub repository: Delphi/DesktopDuplicationAPI at master · tothpaul/Delphi

Via: [WayBack] Little demo for the Desktop Duplication API  – Paul TOTH – Google+

–jeroen

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I’ve given up on entering non-ASCII characters when entering data on-line

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/17

I live in a street that has a non-ASCII character in it: Pyreneeën.

I’ve reverted back to entering the street name as plain ASCII for a simple reason:

Too often the ë gets mangled into encoding gibberish, similar to the é example in [WayBack] When Good Characters Go Bad: A Guide to Diagnosing Character Display Problems as these characters are very near both in UTF-8 and in the [WayBack] Unicode Characters in the Latin-1 Supplement Block:

I’ve seen these encodings, where only the top encoding is correct; the degeneration gets worse moving downwards, a classic Mojibake:

# encoded UTF-8 (hex.)
0 ë 0xC3 0xAB
1 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0xAB
2 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB
3 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB
4 ë 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x83 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x83 0xC2 0x82 0xC3 0x82 0xC2 0xAB
5 ë 0x26 0x65 0x75 0x6d 0x6c 0x3b

The last one seldomly happens, the first one relatively often, just like [Archive.is] fd.nl did a while on their finanancial pages.

These mistakes become sort of understandable (but not forgivable) when you look at the below table-fragment (the full table is at[WayBack] Unicode/UTF-8-character table – starting from code position 0080).

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syntax – Comments in Markdown – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/17

Comments that are not emitted to the output:

The most platform-independent syntax is

(empty line)
[comment]: # (This actually is the most platform independent comment)

Thanks nick-volynkin for answering this at [WayBack] syntax – Comments in Markdown – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

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DelphiTips/RecordProperty at master · tothpaul/DelphiTips · GitHub

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/13

Out of the box, Delphi does not support record properties because of two lacking features:

Paul Toth worked around both at [WayBack] DelphiTips/RecordProperty at master · tothpaul/DelphiTips · GitHub

He uses an intermediate helper where he redirects the get/set methods to from a property registration call.

Note that in the past, Pieter Zijlstra did a similar thing, but bumped into a Delphi 2010 problem where the status indicates it is till open: [WayBack] QualityCentral: 77635 – Open – The new RTTI of D2010 causes components with published record properties to fail to stream in.

Source: Yes ! I’ve published a Record property it could be nice to have this feature…

Via: [WayBack] Yes ! I’ve published a Record property it could be nice to have this feature in Delphi, but we need RTTI for record properties to simplify the code (an… – Paul TOTH – Google+

–jeroen

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Compression Decompressed | The website of Jack Preston, Computerer

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/13

The basics of data compression and how Youtube, Netflix and Spotify stream your stuff.

Step by step, you take a visual tour through the image compression process.

Source: [WayBack] Compression Decompressed | The website of Jack Preston, Computerer

Image source: [Archive.is] Twitter GIFs – Find & Share on GIPHY

Via:

[WayBack] Compression Decompressed or, Making Things Smaller. – ThisIsWhyICode – Google+

–jeroen

 

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Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace – twm’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/12

Reminder to self: check out the the support for proper escaping special characters (like \t, \r, \n or x20 for tab, carriage-return, line-feed or space) in GExperts [WayBack] Using escape characters in GExperts Grep replace – twm’s blog

Solves:

Via: [WayBack] If you enable regular expressions in the GExperts Grep search form, you can search for escape sequences like \t which is expanded to a tab character or … – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+

–jeroen

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Firebird CASE construct

Posted by jpluimers on 2019/06/12

Reminder to self: sort out why a while ago I had trouble with a nested [WayBack] CASE construct causing parsing anomalies in 2.5.8.

–jeroen

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