The curse of Dennis D. Spreen

VerySimpleXML – a lightweight Delphi XML reader and writer

There are lot of possibilities if you’re in need to parse or write XML files:

• use TXMLDocument (the MSXML wrapper)
• or use xml components like OmniXML, NativeXml, ADOM, SAX, libxml2, DIXml, fcl-XML, Fast XMLParser, SimpleXML
  

Now here comes another one: VerySimpleXML – a lightweight, one-unit XML reader/writer in under 500 600 lines of code. Use it for small well-formed XML files (like configuration files, etc.). › Continue reading

Tags: Delphi Programming, xml

Solving circular unit references with class helpers

Sooner or later you run into the circular unit reference problem when using a single unit for each class. There are some solutions (move the common used structs into a separate unit, use type casting, redesign your obvious bad class design, etc.) – this is a solution using class helpers. › Continue reading

Tags: Delphi Programming

Lua 5.1 for Delphi 2010

This is a Lua 5.1 Wrapper for Delphi 2009 and Delphi 2010 which automatically creates OOP callback functions.
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Tags: Delphi Programming, Lua

Unicode in Resource files

Ever tried to put a unicode string (Delphi 2009) in a resource (.rc) file and tried to compile it with brcc32 or rc32?

You’ll get this error:  Expecting resource name or resource type name

The Solution is very simple (though it kept me searching some hours :-):

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Tags: Delphi Programming, Resource, String, Unicode