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Prompt: Can I Claude Code build from command line via MSBuild and the analyze the ouptut of the Delphi compiler/msbuild? The compiler is located in c:\Delphi\Delphi 13\bin\dcc32.EXE but I would prefer to pas the dproj file to MsBuild. I think MsBuild is installed here: c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe Answer: this requires the user to enable the WSL Interop […]
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FuzzyStringCompare calculates an approximate similarity percentage between two strings. It uses a heuristic to count matching characters that are roughly in similar positions, allowing for a tolerance based on string lengths. The tolerance is about one-third of the longer string’s length plus the length difference. The algorithm greedily matches characters from the shorter string to
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Claude Installation /help Get usage help /config Open the Settings interface (Config tab) /doctor Checks the health of your Claude Code installation /exit Exit the REPL Claude Setup /model Select or change the AI model /output-style [style] Set the output style directly or from a selection menu This changes how Claude Code communicates with
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Intro Following a glorious review by a guy on Delphipraxis I decided to test Claude Code which was sold there as the ultimate productivity tool for Delphi (1h of development with Claude valuing as much as a whole day of alone programming). With hopes low (from my previous experience with AIs), I decided to perform
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I have this weird bug in Delphi 13 FMX where the height of the controls is not correct, at app startup. procedure TForm1.AfterConstruction; begin inherited AfterConstruction; MakeDemoBubble; end; TAutosizeBoxText (based on TRectangle) is parented in a ScrollBox. It is set to Align=Top. procedure TForm1.MakeDemoBubble; begin mmoUserResponse.Text := ‘WhatsApp-like text bubble. ‘ + #13#10+ ‘Cool and
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“Free Code Agent: Build Faster Right in Your RAD Studio IDE” Presented by Yai (CTO at Solutions, Embarcadero MVP) Core Idea * AI Code Agents are tools that accelerate coding tasks by generating, refactoring, and scaffolding code inside your IDE. * They do not replace developers; they augment productivity. * Example used: Gemini CLI
Note: This is an excerpt from my “Delphi in all its glory [Part 2]” book. Find the full chapter there. A memory manager is a very special piece of code that controls the allocation and deallocation of memory throughout the entire application. The memory management in Delphi is unique because ALL memory is
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Android’s lifecycle model is a mess. The OS freely kills your process whenever it needs RAM, and you—the app developer—are expected to deal with the fallout. Android shifts its memory problems onto the app layer, leaving you to rebuild your internal state because the OS felt like freeing 200 MB. FireMonkey tries to give you
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A stackOverflow user wanted to know why clicking on the form’s close button while some FOR loop is running does nothing: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var i: Integer; begin for i := 0 to 9999999 do begin Memo1.Lines.Add(‘hi’); Application.ProcessMessages; end; end; The issue comes from the lack of understanding of how the forms work. Here is
I decided to open source my AI client. For the moment it only supports Gemini, but it can be easily supported to support multiple LLMs by extending TLLMObject. * Support for sending multiple files to AI * Support for multi-turn chat * GUI to set up the LLM parameters * Save settings to disk for
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NameOf is a magic function introduced in Delphi 13. What it does is return the identifier name of a symbol (routine, variable, etc) as a string, as resolved by the compiler. It can be used for: Consistent naming Its main advantage is that if we later rename the function, the compiler forces the change
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I needed (for a project I am working on) to obtain the default language for the operation system. Preferable it should be in “human” format like “English” instead of “En-US”. The AI lead me to strange paths. In the end it tuned out to be quite easy so I created these two function (now part
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If you place the cursor on an identifier (variable/function name/etc), CnPack will show you where that identifier is used in your code. Look for example how easy is to spot where the FBuffPos variable is used in the code below: Also, see how “dangerous” instructions (“Exit”) have been marked in blue! Note: On your Delphi
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I’ve seen this trend where AI lacks (compared with other languages) when you try to use it for Delphi (VCL). Probably not their fault. Probably because of lack of code on GitHub…. 😞 Initially, I thought it was only an impression, but later tests (for example, generating a full program with Replit in Delphi and
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I was looking for a collapsible panel for many years.The most important feature I want from this control is to be able to collapse vertically. Here are the results of my research: FoldingPanel (VCL) I used FoldingPanel v1.3 http://www.torry.net/authorsmore.php?id=2386 for years. It comes with nice chevron bitmap too. Advantage: The component comes as a
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Delphi is great for RAD. We all love Delphi, even when we are mad at it. In my opinion Delphi has 3 issues that Embarcadero has to fix in order to make Delphi more attractive. 1. It has ACTIVELY work to bring new Delphi programmers. 2. Solve the problems with the IDE stability 3. Has
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Locating BPL dependency failure In one instance my package required another package, but its BPL was not present. The error I got was “Can’t load package xyz.bpl. %1 is not a valid Win32 application”. I used the Dependency scanner feature from ‘PE Explorer’ ( www.heaventools.de ) to detect this. There was supposed to be
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Recently, I came across a forum where somebody described FreeAndNil as an “abomination” and I think that’s a bit over the top. Let’s unpack this topic ca refully, with technical clarity and an eye for proportion. FreeAndNil(SomeObject) is just syntactic sugar for: if SomeObject <> nil then begin SomeObject.Free; SomeObject := nil; end; The actual
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I was undecided if I should attend to this conference or not because I didn’t had enough information about the previous one. So, here is my 2.5 cents. A Journey by Bicycle Setting off in early June from Denmark on two wheels, I pedaled a few hundred km for the Delphi summit.The northern weather delivered
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In FMX, unlike the VCL, the Visible property affects both design time and runtime when set in the Object Inspector. That’s why setting Visible:= False in FMX hides components in the Form Designer, which is a big inconvenience. If you edit the form at design time often, you can keep Visible:= True in the designer
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VCL had a nice and uniform message box system. Most important (and convenient), the messages were blocking. Because of the Android platform which does not support asynchronous messages, all this is gone. So I document here the behavior of few different ways in which we can display message boxes in FMX. None is perfect (not
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Generate your key here https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikey and enter it into the IDE. As URL enter: https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1 Parameters Top-P [official documentation] Top-P changes how the model selects tokens for output. Tokens are selected from the most (see top-K) to least probable until the sum of their probabilities equals the top-P value. For example, if tokens A,
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Delphi Athene – Release 1 (12.1) Support for split editor views in the IDE. Use multiple editors side by side, above and below each other, or a mix, all in the same window. Right-clicking a tab and choose Split or Move. Split will create another version of the selected tab, while move will close the
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IDE Removed deprecated features: VCL Translation Support & Modeling Object Inspector – New string list editor Multiline string Editor Multiline string literals The Find in Files dialog now has a new Subdirectory exclude mask option, which excludes specific folders from being searched when using the Search in directories and Include subdirectories There are default exclusions
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10.4 Styles are finally working! Better support for high DPI monitors. High DPI support in styles (skins) Per Control Styling Better cross platform support Custom managed records – records now support custom initialization, finalization, and copy operations. Developers can customize how records get created, copied, and destroyed, by writing the code to be executed at
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Dark-light themes for IDE The IDE includes some of Andreas Hausladen’s “IDE Fix Pack” fixes and improvements (FINALLY!) High resolution timer caused by using Virtual Treeview. Findhinstance optimisations. Debugger using CREATE_DEFAULT_ERROR_MODE when creating the process. Tstringlist indexof and Name optimizations. High DPI Image List Support. Can fully support multi-resolution, pixel perfect images on all controls,
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New custom VCL controls corresponding to some new Windows 10 UI controls, which can also be used on previous version of Windows. New VCL controls: TActivityindicator, TSearchbox, TRelativePanel, TToggleSwitch, TSplitview Modern looking SelectDirectory function Support for Windows 10 Notifications using the notificationcenter component Box2D physics engine. Object Pascal interfaces for the Box2D physics engine Support
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GetLinesEnumerator – New enumerators for reading file content Returns the line-by-line enumerator without loading full file content into the memory. Memory Efficiency: TFile.GetLinesEnumerator reads the file line by line, which is memory-efficient for large files. Unlike TFile.ReadLines (which loads all lines into a list), this method streams the file incrementally. I test it with both
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After a conversation about the low popularity of the Delphi language—further worsened by the lack of libraries for Delphi—I decided to share my odyssey in the world of bioinformatics, using Delphi as my primary development tool. My toy tool that turned into a commercial product Back in 2007, I wrote a small tool for
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So, because I built a program that has to resize/scale images up and down, I built this tool to test 13 resizing algorithms for Delphi. Tested algorithms Tests: Two of the above tests include 3rd party algorithms.If you don’t have access to their source code, you will have to switch off the {$3RDPARTY} switch.
Say no to crappy images in your Delphi programs. Finding the best resizing algorithm. Read More »
