Delphi Programming
Porting to XE5 and the “W1030 Invalid compiler directive: ‘true'” warning
If you port your application to Delphi XE5 and you receive this warning
[dcc32 Warning] W1030 Invalid compiler directive: 'true'
There is already a standard code style
As François Piette (a very honourable Embarcadero MVP) recently wrote, coding style matters. He states “… this is mostly a matter of personal preferences as long as the style is constant…” but I totally disagree in this very important topic: there shouldn’t be any “personal preferences” in writing code. › Continue reading
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
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
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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Delphi Prism new language features
Andreano Lanusse wrote about the new Delphi Prism language features compared to Delphi Win32.
Some of them I really would like to see in Delphi Win32 and some I don’t like and disallowed it in our internal code creation rules. The most important I dislike is
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 :-):
Right To Left Forms support
How to enable Right To Left Forms (including icons and form captions) with Delphi:
OnClick Event in TTreeView Objects
This code returns the TAG of a clicked node in Delphi for PHP
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