Author Archives: Andreas Hausladen

This RAD Studio IDE plugin enables the F12 debug hotkey for the Win32 debugger for Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and Windows 10. If you don’t know what this plugin is for, then you don’t need it. Download

Eugene Kotlyarov found a problem with Castalia’s clipboard history feature combined with a TRichEdit in a debugged application. If you copy text from the RichEdit to the clipboard the first time, the IDE and the debugged application stop responding and start reacting after a ~30 seconds timeout. After that, copy to clipboard works until you… Read More »

Calling a virtual method through an interface always was a lot slower than calling a static method through an interface. But why is that? Sure, the virtual method call costs some time, but comparing it with the difference of a normal static and virtual method call shows that the timings diverge too much. i7-4790 3.6GHz… Read More »

Delphi 10.1 Berlin reintroduces UTF8String and RawByteString for the NextGen compilers (Android, iOS). But ShortString and AnsiString are still missing. The compiler has full support for them but you can’t use them because they are declared with a leading underscore in the System.pas unit what makes them inaccessible because “_” is compiled to “@” what… Read More »

IDE Fix Pack 5.95 supports RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin. When Windows Defender (or any other anti-virus tool) sees the compiler creating a DCU file and the compiler calls CloseHandle on the file handle, the virus/malware scanner blocks the thread and takes its time to have a look at the file. This causes CloseHandle to take… Read More »

The DDevExtensions and the DFMCheck IDE plugins are now available for 10.1 Berlin. Download: Name IDE Version File Size Downloads Added DDevExtensions 1.61 5-2007 DDevExtensions161Setup.zip 734.07 KB 20323 times 2009-01-10 DDevExtensions 2.8 Features PDF DDevExtensionsFeatures.pdf 602.92 KB 18195 times 2014-12-27 DDevExtensions 2.4 7, 2007 DDevExtensions24Setup7_2007.zip 535.41 KB 13271 times 2011-07-25 DDevExtensions 2.86 2009-10.3 DDevExtensions286.7z 1.24… Read More »

I made a small update for DFMCheck RAD Studio IDE plugin. The new version 1.6 adds a “Yes to all” button to the “Open/Close all forms” confirmation dialog for modified DFM files and it uses the Vista+ taskbar progress feature. More information about DFMCheck:https://www.idefixpack.de/blog/ide-tools/dfmcheck/ Download: Name IDE Version File Size Downloads Added DFMCheck 1.6 5-10.3… Read More »

The IDE Fix Pack 6.0 BETA for XE2-10Seattle focuses on the Win64 compiler’s compile speed. It not only uses SSE2-SSE4.1 instructions to increase the compiler’s performance but it also optimizes for the most common cases. Micro optimizations are used for tight loops and functions that are called a million times. Even with this patch the… Read More »

IDE Fix Pack 5.94 supports RAD Studio 10 Seattle and adds some additional patches. Changelog: Added: RAD Studio 10 Seattle support Added: Patch for Clipboard History exception from 10 Seattle Castalia integration (10Seattle) Added: timeBeginPeriod/timeEndPeriod calls from IDEVirtualTrees disabled (battery drain) Added: Removed unnecessary memory reallocations for 64bit and AARM compiler (XE4+) Added: CodeInsight popup… Read More »

IDE Fix Pack for XE7 fails to load if the Summer 2015 XE7 Hotfix is installed. To get around this incompatibility I re-released the IDE Fix Pack 5.93 for XE7. This re-release requires Update 1 and can run with and without the XE7 Summer 2015 Hotfix. fastdcc for XE7 isn’t affected by this. Download: Name… Read More »