DDevExtensions 2.82 is a rather small update. It fixes the “Switch to the module’s project” incompatibility with XE6 and adds the option to disable the alpha-sort for the IDE’s class completion (Ctrl+Shift+C). If alpha-sort class completion is disabled and you press Ctrl+Shift+C all methods from the class declaration are appended to the already existing implementation… Read More »
With the latest Windows updates (KB2982791, KB2970228) Delphi 8-2010 can’t be started twice without a reboot because the IDE wants to create the file %TEMP%\EditorLineEnds.ttr that is now locked by the system. The IDE extracts a FONT-resource to %TEMP%\EditorLineEnds.ttr and then loads it with AddFontResource(). The IDE’s finalization code unloads the font. But with the… Read More »
If you have many DFM files and RES files in your project you may run into the rlink32 error “Too many resources to handle”. Every DFM file is one resource and a RES file can contain multiple resources. All together must not exceed 3626 resources. This limit comes from how rlink32 pre-allocates memory for all… Read More »
IDE Fix Pack version 5.6 adds support for RAD Studio XE6. All patches that are in version 5.5 for XE5 are also in 5.6 for XE6 except the patch for QC 111998 ($TDW macro used in Tools causes crash) that is fixed in XE6. XE6 introduces a project option to compile projects with the command… Read More »
With the IDE Fix Pack 5.5 release the end of 2010, XE2, XE3 and XE4 support is reached. This will be the last IDE Fix Pack for those four versions. This version fixes a long standing bug that was introduced with version 4.6 (2011-12-15) and that affected the debugger when it searched for the correct… Read More »
DDevExtensions 2.81 adds support for RAD Studio XE6. DFMCheck 1.5 supports RAD Studio XE6. System.ByteString for RAD Studio XE6 gives you the (hidden) native Byte-String types for all mobile platforms back.
Before I can install XE6 I have to uninstall some older versions of RAD Studio because I will run out of disk space on my SSD when I install XE6. The newer the Delphi version is the more disk space it takes, mainly due to the variety of supported platforms (Win32 debug/Win32 release/Win64 debug/…) After… Read More »
XE5 Update 2 broke the Android System.ByteStrings.o file. So I recompiled it with XE5 Update 2 and now you can use the Byte-Strings (UTF8String, AnsiString, RawByteString, ShortString) also with XE5 Update 2. The unit System.ByteStrings reintroduces: ShortString AnsiString AnsiChar PAnsiChar PPAnsiChar UTF8String PUTF8String RawByteString PRawByteString Usage:Add the System.ByteStrings.dcu’s path to the compiler’s search path and… Read More »
IDE Fix Pack 5.4.1 adds support for the just released XE5 Update 2. If you use the older version 5.4 with XE5 Update 2 you will see one or two error messages (depending on if you have the x64 compiler installed) that tell you that one patch couldn’t be applied to the x86 and x64… Read More »
The CLANG compiler that is used for BCC64 in XE3, XE4 and XE5 has a “bloated object file” problem if it comes to debug information for deeply nested templates. The generated object file can easily grow to 100 MB with a single line of code. int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { std::map<TEnumA, std::map<TEnumB, std::map<TEnumC, std::map<TEnumD,… Read More »