Pointers can be really helpful, especially they can improve performance and readability, but they are also dangerous. I spent nearly a day tracking down the reason why the code a former colleague wrote about 5 years ago all of a sudden led to access violations. The code used to work fine, the problem only surfaced … Continue reading Pointers are dangerous →

David Hoyle just blogged about this topic (go ahead, read it first but remember to come back. 😉 ) https://www.davidghoyle.co.uk/WordPress/?p=2100 Welcome back. I think he is making two mistakes here (for suitable definitions of "mistake"): Don't store the form positions in an ini file, use the registry. These positions make sense only on the same … Continue reading Remembering an Application’s Size and Position on Multiple Screens →

If you are maintaining a library, component or plugin for various Delphi versions you will sooner or later hit a point where it becomes necessary to have different code for some of them. Some examples are: The constants faTemporary and faSymlink are only declared in Delphi 2009 and later, so you have to declare them … Continue reading Conditional compilation for various Delphi versions →