There are many bug reports for error insight where it sometimes thinks that TObject and all the other things from the System unit aren’t declared. The stange thing is that with my IDE Fix Pack 2.1, I don’t see these false positives anymore (There are other bugs in error insight, I’m talking here about the… Read More »
My tool DLangExtensions which has added case-string-of, extended for-in loops, FreePascal generics, multi line strings and an extended Exit to Delphi 5-2007 is returning to life. I have successfully migrated the tool to Delphi 2009 and removed the FreePascal generics and the extended Exit because both are superseded by Delphi 2009’s features. The tool will… Read More »
In a recent newsgroup posting I promissed that I will write a Delphi 2009 IDE plugin that automatically change the meaning of string and Char to RawByteString and AnsiChar the source code. My plan is to keep the editor and the files on disk untouched and only ansify the buffer that is handled to the… Read More »
I’m working on the final steps for a release of the IDEFixPack 2007 2.0 and IDEFixPack 2009 2.0. Both tools will contain every available patch that I have for the specific IDE version. The 2007er version has 18 patches and the 2009er version has 8 patches. To make my and your life easier I’ve done… Read More »
Because the Delphi 2009 IDE also contains the missing-stdcall bug, I thought that it would be good to have the fix for it in the IDE itself until CodeGear releases an update that fixes this serious bug. The new IDE Fix Pack 2009 version 1.0 contains two fixes inherited from the IDE Fix Pack 2007… Read More »