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 »
I’ve put IDE Fix Pack 4.5 back into development as it wasn’t as stable as I wanted it to be. But this also allows me to put new optimizations into the code and improve the performance of older optimizations. Furthermore I added support for RAD Studio XE2+Update 1. What has changed and what is new… Read More »
I have updated the DFMCheck IDE plugin to support RAD Studio 2010 and XE. Version 1.41 also fixes an “out of memory” bug that was introduced in 2008. DFMCheck converts the object structure of all DFM files that are used in the project file to a *.pas unit. This special unit is then sent to… Read More »
My last post about the death of DDevExtensions for XE Update 1 was an overreaction. It was late in the night, it was a copy protection problem and I wasn’t in the mood to fix this. It took me hours to identify which function hook in DDevExtensions caused the problem. But eventually I found it.… Read More »
Let’s start with AsyncCalls 2.96. It is a small update that adds Delphi XE support and a feature that I should have added when I ported it to Delphi 2009. The cdecl-functions now support the UnicodeString type. DDevExtension 2.1 adds support for the new RAD Studio XE. It took me some time to adjust all… Read More »
Yesterday I released a new version of the IDE Fix Pack. The new version 3.0 adds some object inspector patches and removes one patch that caused problems with the compiler and debugger hint windows. Changelog from 2.9 to 3.0 (2010-03-15): Added fix for: QC #80822: ObjectInspecor: Properties are duplicated after scrolling Added fix for: QC… Read More »
C++Builder’s CRTL now uses FastMM as built-in memory manager. You can see this in “source\cpprtl\Source\memory\_fastmm.c”. It has also AUTO_SHARE_MEMORYMANAGER defined what means that it can work with the Delphi FastMM memory manager and the BorlndMM.dll isn’t necessary anymore. There are also some optimized c-string and memory functions in the CRTL code. Looks like somebody got… Read More »
A new feature that nobody seems to have blogged about is that RAD Studio 2010 can switch between languages. You can now have an English IDE and compile against a German RTL/VCL or the other way round. The first indication of that new feature is that the installer shows you a list of checkboxes “English”, “German”, “French”, “Japanese”. The next… Read More »
Since last weekend my RAD Studio 2007 and 2009 has started to have a 9 seconds delay where the whole computer stands still. The crAppStart mouse cursor’s animation (rotation of the circle) was freezed and my hard disk was hard at work. That is something I don’t like at all. So I analyzed what updates… Read More »
Lately I didn’t have much time to work on my IDE plugins. One reason was that I had to adjust my RoboCup Junior Soccer management tool to the new international rules and then I was at the RoboCup World Cup 2009 in Graz, Austria and helped the organizers. After that I needed one week off… Read More »