DeHL 0.7 is up
After a few months of no releases, I finally decided to throw one out — so here it is, DeHL 0.7. This release is adding three more collection, new types and fixes some internal limitations of the library….
Read More »Class constructors and Generics
The new great addition to the Delphi language in Delphi 2010 is the possibility to specify a class constructor and a class destructor to your class/record. I will not describe this feature in this post since you can…
Read More »DeHL 0.6 available
Yes I know I have skipped 0.5. The reality is that 0.5 was due a long time ago, but I did not have enough free time on my hands to complete the unit testing for all new features…
Read More »Update for FSEnum
Since some people asked me to improve FSEnum unit (see this post). I decided to give it another go and add some features and improve the others. So what’s new? Optional Boolean parameter for all methods that tells…
Read More »Extending TObject with data at runtime
In a recent comment on this blog Patrick van Logchem suggested a way of extending an existing object instance with custom data at run-time (originally the idea of Thorsten Engler). The main idea is to be able to…
Read More »Enumerating over a directory structure
Me again, and again with enumeration techniques. In this post I will try to coven a very common problem all programmers have to face one time or another: enumerating all files recursively in a directory. Yesterday I had…
Read More »Arbitrary precision integers
I have decided to extract the BigInteger and BigCardinal data types from DeHL and make a bundle with them separately. Someone may be interested in these types and not so much in DeHL. The attached unit should compile…
Read More »Playing with Windows 7
I was playing around with some (default Windows) programs these days and noticed that taskbar items for those programs show some cool effects whenever there is some progress going on So I decided to write a little unit…
Read More »DeHL documentation
Since I had a few requests, I have started putting together some documentation on DeHL. It’s pretty basic and only includes some conceptual stuff, not API documentation. You can find it here. Version 0.5 is shaping up quite…
Read More »What’s new in DeHL 0.4
In the previous post I have mostly talked about Enex (Enumerable Extensions) I have enabled for all DeHL’s collection classes. Now I will list the other changes that got into this release that may be of interest to…
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