Delphi has had a THandle type for a long time (at least since Delphi 6) but didn't use it consistently. I just had to check those declarations for various Delphi versions in order to get rid of compile errors or warnings in GExperts. Here is what I found: THandle is a type declared in the … Continue reading How the handle declarations changed in Delphi →

I just had a nasty surprise with Delphi 10.3 when trying to build a project that worked fine with previous Delphi versions. The problem turned out the text one of my pre build events wrote to the output. It contained the string "error :". Apparently Delphi 10.3 parses the output of the build events and … Continue reading Building a project in Delphi 10.3 fails if the build script output contains “error:” →