I wrote this Delphi IDE Explorer Expert when I was trying find the button for showing and hiding the background for the Firemonkey mobile form designer and turn the bloody thing off for good. Now I have ported it to all Delphi versions from 2007 to 10 Seattle. You can find the sources on SourceForge.
Author: dummzeuch
Remove the ad banner on the Delphi 10 Seattle welcome page
I don't know what Embarcadero thinks they can accomplish by showing their customers an annoying ad banner for the product they have already bought, but I don't like that and this post helped me to get rid of it. There are two steps: Locate the file that is being displayed. There are multipe default.htm files … Continue reading Remove the ad banner on the Delphi 10 Seattle welcome page
Experimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-09-06 released
The latest version is the first version that supports Delphi 10 Seattle. There is nothing really new about the formatter code. Achim Kalwa submitted a patch that solves yet another Unicode issue, this time with the Code Proofreader expert. Another change is that there won't be a regular expert dll this time. After polling on … Continue reading Experimental GExperts Version 1.37 2015-09-06 released
Rebooting a Linux server unattended
Just so I can look it up when I need it again: /sbin/shutdown -r now is the command that when run as root will reboot a Linux server. It can simply be added as a scheduled command in WebMin:
Using the %TEMP% directory
Sometimes you need to temporarily create a file or even a directory to put some files into. Windows (and most other operating systems, even MS DOS) reserves a special directory for this purpose and helpfully provides API methods for getting this directory (or you could just use the %TEMP% environment variable but while that is … Continue reading Using the %TEMP% directory
dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.2 released
I just released dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.2 on SourceForge. It now creates its own subdirectory under TEMP where its puts the unique subdirectories for the various copies of the .ttr file rather than cluttering TEMP. It also tries to delete this directory on startup (It can't do that on shutdown because the .ttr files cannot be deleted). … Continue reading dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.2 released
If PHP files get downloaded rather than executed on Ubuntu
you probably didn't install libapache2-mod-php5: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
Creating application icons from multiple PNGs
Note to self: Icons for Windows applications with multiple resolutions can be created by combining multiple png images using the convert tool that comes with ImageMagcic: convert 16.png 32.png 48.png 128.png 256.png -colors 256 icon.ico (From this answer to this question on superuser.com.)
Delphi Custom Container Pack updated for Delphi XE8
I just updated the Custom Container Pack sources to support Delphi XE8. It was mostly a matter of creating the packages for the "new" version. I also added XE8 to the compilerversion.inc file. It now compiles and installs. I have not tested it extensively.
GExperts code formatter is now a little bit more Unicode aware
A new release of my experimental GExperts version is available. I fixed yet another issue with Unicode / UTF-8. It works now with some Arabic strings which got converted to question marks before. The usual warning applies: My unit tests still work so apparently I haven't broken too much in the process. I also tested … Continue reading GExperts code formatter is now a little bit more Unicode aware