Common unit aliases for backwards compatibility to older Delphi versions

Backwards compatibility to older Delphi versions is an issue mostly encountered by component and IDE plugin developers. Borland, Codegear and Embarcadero actually did quite a good job in that area. Many ancient projects (at least back to Delphi 6) can simply be loaded into a later IDE and they just compile. The IDE usually makes … Continue reading Common unit aliases for backwards compatibility to older Delphi versions

Bugfix for Delphi IDE explorer in Delphi 10.3

In December 2018 I found out that some of the functionality in my Delhi IDE explorer was broken in Delphi 10.3, namely the function to select the current active control or automatically follow the focus. The reason was that the IDE now used the Screen.ActiveControlChanged event itself, disabling it for to my plugin. Today I … Continue reading Bugfix for Delphi IDE explorer in Delphi 10.3

Where does Delphi store the desktop settings? And what do they mean?

I keep forgetting this so this post is mostly so I can look it up: Delphi uses DST files to store the desktops - that is the layout of the various parts of the IDE. Theses files are in INI format and are stored in Delphi 2007 and later [users]\[username]\AppData\Roaming\[Company]\BDS\[version] e.g. c:\users\johndoe\AppdData\Roaming\Embarcadero\BDS 20.0 Delphi 2006 … Continue reading Where does Delphi store the desktop settings? And what do they mean?

TStringGrid has Rows and Cols properties

From the "How could I have missed this for decades?" department: The TStringGrid component in Delphi has got two interesting properties which I didn't know about: TStringGrid.Rows lists the strings and their associated objects for each row TStringGrid.Cols Lists strings with their associated objects for each column I found out about rows when I searched … Continue reading TStringGrid has Rows and Cols properties