Tag: delphi
Delphi 2009 – Exit;
A very useful and cool feature in Delphi 2009 is the Exit keyword. Yes, it’s that Exit that “returns” from a function call. So what’s so exiting about it? Nothing really – for people coming from C-like languages,…
Read More »Delphi Generics: Problem 1
Kids, don’t try this at home 🙂 Error: [DCC Fatal Error] Tests.DynamicArray.pas(772): F2084 Internal Error: URW1135 There you have it 🙂 The fix is rather simple but annoying: Declare a new type in the class/record like this: And…
Read More »TSendMail Action
If you’ve ever wondered how to use TSendMail action in ExtActns unit – drop it, it’s useless. I’ve had a few people complaining they don’t know how to set the Recipients and Subject set it – you can’t…
Read More »New Delphi 2009 Generics
Finally Generics are a part of Delphi for Win32! This is a big push for CodeGear in order to bring Delphi out of stagnation it has been the last couple of years. Impressions after working with generics for…
Read More »New C#: Exactly my point!
I was debating some of the new flashy changes planned for new C# version with some of my colleagues … It seems no matter what Microsoft does it’s always considered as an in innovation in the field. Let’s…
Read More »Fond Memories: WoW
Came across a blog post a few weeks ago where someone was describing the methods he used to sniff WoW’s (World Of Warcraft) packets. That led me to think that I should write down about the time I…
Read More »TActionMainMenuBar Sucks!
Yeah … seriously! Tried to move away from the TMainMenu in Eduka+ today. Spent nearly 3 hours researching and trying out different approaches to make the Action based menu work… It seriously lacks clarity and functionality. So what…
Read More »$SetPEFlags
Quick update: It seems Delphi has a $SetPEFlags directive for setting the PE flags! Was searching for this for some time now. Now I can add a: {$SetPEFlags IMAGE_FILE_UP_SYSTEM_ONLY} flag so that windows only assigns a single core…
Read More »Eduka+ – It’s alive!
Eduka+ is one of my pet projects I’ve been working on a very long time ago (started 5 years ago I think). The Idea was to create a replacement for 2 programs used in Moldavian schools to teach…
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