If I add a new patch to the compiler speed pack, I need to know if the compiler still does the same (but faster). The first indication that I broke something is, that the compiler throws an access violation. The second indication is if the compiler finished, but the lines of code, code size or… Read More »
The DDevExtensions 2.83 and the DFMCheck 1.5 are re-released for RAD Studio 10 Seattle. No changes or new features except for the RAD Studio 10 Seattle support are included, so the version number doesn’t change. It is a simple recompile. DDevExtensions Name IDE Version File Size Downloads Added DDevExtensions 1.61 5-2007 DDevExtensions161Setup.zip 734.07 KB 20323… Read More »
Delphi’s NextGen compilers (Android, IOS) removed support for UTF8String, AnsiString and RawByteString. But if you look into System.pas you see that those types are still there but Embarcadero makes them inaccessible from outside of System.pas by prefixing them with an underscore that the compiler converts to the at-sign. And you can’t write “@UTF8String” as it… Read More »
For all developers that got stuck at Delphi 2007 and who want to upgrade to Windows 10 can now use the special “Windows 10 Edition” of IDE Fix Pack 4.4 for Delphi 2007. The “Windows 10 Edition” also supports Windows 8.1. Requirement: Delphi 2007 December Update. Download: Name IDE Version File Size Downloads Added IDE… Read More »
Those who tried to use IDE Fix Pack on Windows 10 got the uncritical error message “failed: Faster IDE startup [IDE.Startup.Fast]” that appeared on every IDE start. The problem is that a byte sequence changed that IDE Fix Pack tries to find. Windows 10 uses “INT3” instead of “NOP” instructions to align functions and IDE… Read More »
On of the IDE Fix Pack patches (IDE.Startup.Fast) fails if it is used in the Windows 10 Insider Preview. The newest development snapshot now supports the Preview. The incompatibility was caused by Windows 10 Insider Preview using “int3” ($CC) instead of “nop” ($90) for code alignment. It looks like Mircosoft uses a kind of debug… Read More »
I’ve uploaded the PDFium Delphi VCL control code that was sitting on my disk for 2 months to GitHub. It contains the DLL bindings, an abstraction layer and an example VCL control.
Due to many requests to get the source code of the DLangExtensions Delphi preprocessor, I decided to upload the code base, as it was in 2009 when the project was discontinued, to GitHub. The project is still discontinued and not resumed. This means no support from me. Only the main project was migrated to Delphi… Read More »
The new version 5.92 fixes a bug in the TStringList optimization that caused UniDAC’s designtime editor to crash. It also binds the Ctrl+Alt+Enter shortcut to the “Find References” action. The IDE’s original behavior is to toggle the shortcut between “Find References” and “Find Local References” in the action’s OnUpdate handler, depending on the ErrorInsight parser’s… Read More »
There was a bug in the TStringList.IndexOf performance optimization that didn’t take into account that DB.TFlatList overrides GetCount and implements lacy loading. The optimization directly accessed TStringList.FCount which was zero because GetCount wasn’t called. This bug appeared when you tried to open a DataSet in the IDE. Another problem was that the fastdcc*.exe files in… Read More »