I am happy yo announce that all books in the “Delphi in all its glory” series will be available in electronic format. They will be delivered not a PDF but under my own reader (exe file) called Orinoco eReader. Advantages You can read the book from you computer. Smaller price Fair price – With the […]
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My Experience with Cursor: The Promise and the Reality This week, I had the opportunity (or perhaps the misfortune?) to try out Cursor, a new tool that promises to enhance productivity for programmers. As someone who primarily works in Delphi, I was curious to see how it would stack up. Cursor is an AI-powered
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The Delphi in all its glory book shows that at design time the IDE is the host of all visual components on our forms. If a single control misbehaves at design time it might take down the whole IDE. In most cases this happens while we drag and drop such components from Components Palette on
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“Delphi in all its glory – Delphi for more than mere programmers” (ISBN:9798387412141) was released on time (March 2023) as promised. This is the first book in the series. You can find the printed book on your local Amazon (Amazon.com, Amazon.de, etc) or in electronic format. The source code for the example used in the
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SetFocus is broken in Delphi. Has been since v1 and there are no signs that it will be fixed soon. What does it mean, broken? Do I really have to explain it? We all know. Try to set focus on a visual control that is disabled or is invisible or simply is not focusable, and
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Here is a summary (extracted from Wikipedia) of the most popular software open source license. License Latest ver Linking Distribution Modification Patent grant Private use Sublicensing TM grant Apache License 2.0 Permissive Permissive Permissive Yes Yes Permissive No BSD License 3.0 Permissive Permissive Permissive[ Manually Yes Permissive Manually Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Public Domain Public
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Two weeks ago, a buggy project landed in my hands, to repair. The bug report was really unclear – it was just stated a piece of code that was supposed to upload some Json files to the Azure cloud was not working on some PCs. The code was something like this – well actually was
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Back in the early 90’s people invented a program called rich text editor. In it you could format text to be bold, italic. Paragraphs were also available. Then years went by, the rich editors got better and better until they culminated with really powerful and eye candy editors like MS Word. In parallel Linux came
I worked in a large project that had lots of frames and lots of dynamically created controls. When the software was running was difficult to figure out which control is which and were is created. So, I wrote this tiny piece of code that tells you which control is under the mouse. I was showing
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We all created at one point some small utility to do some dirty job for us. It started as a 100 liner then became bigger and bigger. And then we decided to publish it so the whole world can enjoy it. And this is when disaster hits: the users start to ask more and more
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01.2023 Some of my programs need to run as single instance. This means that if an instance of my program is already running and the user is trying to start another instance, the second instance should not run. However, before closing the second instance, I want to pass the command line parameters from that second
UnreadEditor does not start because Api-ms-win-downlevel-kernel32-l2-1-0.dll not found? Solution is simple: Open Explorer. Go to c:WindowsSystem32CompatTel Locate the DLL and copy it to c:WindowsSystem32
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Usually I have my D: drive sleeping because it is too loud.But sometimes, without obvious reason somebody wakes it up. To see who does that, you need to install the Sysinternals Process Monitor (Microsoft website).At startup you need to cancel the filter dialog that will be presented. In the program, under the Filter main menu,
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Today I was not able to save anymore images in PainShop Pro as jpg (png will work). PainShop Pro will simply freeze if I try to do this. The issue: a clipboard monitor called PureText was conflicting with PainShop Pro. Closing the program solved the issue. I have no clue why the programmers of PainShop
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How I fixed blurry/fuzzy image on Samsung Galaxy s6? The solution was amazingly simple: shake the phone very aggressively!. Looks like the camera actuator mechanism sometimes gets stuck in a certain position. This will fix it.
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Somebody asked me: can you tell if the machine on which you are running is a virtual machine installed secretly by some malware/hacker? I thought about that question and the answer is SURE. Without any doubt. A virtual machine will consume some resources by itself (quite a lot). If you observe these missing resources you
KSDev released this year CrossVCL – a framework that allows you to build multi-platform applications. What is the difference between Firemonkey and CrossVCL? If you want to make your current app multi platform, you need to port it to Firemonkey. With CrossVCL you don’t need anything!!! They really upgraded Delphi/C++ programming to a brand new
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List of IDE features that are cool Search backwards – Ctrl+F to do a search in your code. F3 to go to the next position Shift+F3 to go to previous position. Move/Relocate/Rename project’s files directly from Project Manager Navigate to recently modified code – Ctrl+Shift+F7 and Ctrl+Shift+F8 Search for usage – Right click a variable
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When Firefox Quantum was launched everybody praised it as the next best thing (browser).But if you look closelly you will only see modest speed improvements into the browser. HOWEVER, you will see massive slowdowns in Windows. At least I did in mine. Why because instead of taking 600-900MB for regular browsing the new Firefox takes
I recently observed that Setup files created with WinRar have a high false positive detection rate from antiviruses. Here are the conclusions of some test I made, in order to reduce the false positive rate: RAR version SFX module Detection ratio WinRar 3.11 32bit 1/66 WinRar 4.2 32bit? 3/66 WinRar 5.50 32bit 6/67 WinRar 5.50
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0) ALLOW LESS SECURE APPS: Login to gmail using your browser, switch to your google account (top-right round button), go to Sign-in & Security>Connected apps & sites, scroll down until reach Allow less secure apps:OFF and turn it ON (if it’s already on, leave as it is); 1) DELETE OLD GMAIL PASSWORD: Launch Thunderbird, select
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I recently have seen that 25% of my GDrive quota was occupied by something. But my GDrive has in it only 0.7GB. So, who gets the rest of the space. It turns out that there are files in my Google Drive that are not assigned to a folder. Therefore they are “hidden” from view. To
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I stepped last week in a multiple-bug situation with EurekaLog for Delphi. I again wasted MORE than a day with this buggy “exception tracer tool”. My DRP file is like this: PROGRAM MyProgram; uses {$ifdef win32}fastmm4,{$endif} EurekaLog_units_come_here This worked fine until I compiled the program to 64 bits. On 64 bit, EurekaLog refused to work.
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Most of my Delphi programs are flagged as virus by some antivirus programs. Some of these antivirus programs are really cheap/under-the-table products (such as Baidu and Comodo) other are big (TOP) name like Kaspersky. In theory you should report a false positive to the antivirus producers so they can fix their bug but if the
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Email sender settings in EurekaLog v7 SMTP Server [1] Simple MAPI MAPI Shell (MailTo) SMTP client [3] Can attach the ELP file Yes Yes [2] Yes [2] No Yes See sender’s email No [4] Yes Yes Yes No Email client software* Not required Required Required Required Not required Chance of success Highest chance among all
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I wanted to send an email (“Send via SMTP client”) from EurekaLog v7.4.8.0 RC 1 but I was getting this error: FAILED: Error code = -2146885613 The revocation function was unable to check revocation because the revocation server was offline EurekaLog 7.4.8.0 RC 1 Testing send with TELMailSMTPClientSender Options: _BugAppVersion=”21.0.17707.5020″ _BugID=”73D40000″ _BugIDSource=”bds.exe My email is
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Total Commander (aka Windows Commander) is the ultimate file manager for Windows (and recently for Android too). Who can use it? The regular Windows user that used all his life Windows Explorer will find Total Commander interface AT LEAST awkward. The interface concept and user experience is totally different in Total Commander. This doesn’t mean
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I need a 3GB internal harddrive. Looking through statistic data from BackBlaze, it seems that Seagate is the worst solution because of it HUGE failure rate. Yes the prices are good for this drive but you don’t want a cheap drive that will fail after 2 years. Right? The next brand with high failure rate
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Do you need a free web editor that supports HML5? I needed one and I really had to waste some time to review some. Here are the conclusions (and the conclusions only). NOTE: See the 2017 update at the end of the post! BlueGriffon 2015 Price: Free or 70 euros: http://www.bluegriffon.org/#whatsinside Comment: Seems robust and
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Delphi is still in Top 20… but barely.
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