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Month: July 2014

Delphiversions.inc

In the olden days[tm] there was a project for maintaining a Delphiversions.inc file which created human readable conditional defines from the VERxx conditional defines of the Delphi compilers. Since it seems to have vanished from the face of the Internet[tm], I have just added a new page to the Delphi Wiki which you can just … Continue reading Delphiversions.inc →

dummzeuch Delphi 2014-07-262021-09-17 1 Minute

Displaying a multi line error message without wasting space

I have got a form that usually displays outputs from various sources, each of which has a frame for its own purpose. Now, if an error occurs with any of theses sources, I want to display that error message on the bottom of the form, just above the panel that contains the action buttons. It … Continue reading Displaying a multi line error message without wasting space →

dummzeuch Delphi 2014-07-23 1 Minute

Adding fields to a TDataset in code

The Delphi IDE allows you to add fields to a TDataset (descendant e.g. TTable, TQuery, TAdoTable etc.) by right clicking on the component and selecting "Add Field" or "New Field". For a particular project I didn't want to do that because I kept changing the query for which I want to add the fields. But … Continue reading Adding fields to a TDataset in code →

dummzeuch Delphi, dzLib 2014-07-12 3 Minutes

GORM experimental release

GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a release and currently even the original download doesn't seem … Continue reading GORM experimental release →

dummzeuch Delphi, dxgettext 2014-07-052022-06-21 1 Minute

Comparing Variants

I hate Variants, did I say that before? They just make everything more complex than necessary. Did you ever try to compare two variants? E.g. you have got one that contains an empty string ('') and another that contains a date. Now you want to know whether they are equal or not. Simple? v1 := … Continue reading Comparing Variants →

dummzeuch Delphi 2014-07-01 1 Minute

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