My Delphi Tools Manager tool according to Virus Total and there the Microsoft virus scanner contains the PUA:Win32/Puwaders.B!ml virus. Update: Virus Total no longer detects a virus, so I guess I was right all the time: It was a false positive. -- 2019-09-05 twm The description on Microsoft's site is as always pretty useless: Summary … Continue reading Delphi Tools Manager contains a virus – claims Microsoft
Category: Delphi
Delphi Tools Manager 1.0.0 released
I mentioned that I am working on the Delphi Tools Manager in my post about GExperts supporting import and export for the Tools menu. Today I finished the first version of this tool. It supports all Delphi versions from 5 to 10.3 (it is written in Delphi 10.2). So, what does it do: It shows … Continue reading Delphi Tools Manager 1.0.0 released
On (re-)installing Delphi without active maintenance
Apparently Embarcadero has decided to piss off the remaining Delphi users in the whole world, just to line their pockets. One of the annoyances of Delphi after Delphi 7 has been the enforced online activation. First, there was a 4 weeks grace period until that activation was necessary, but even that grace period has been … Continue reading On (re-)installing Delphi without active maintenance
GExperts adds copy and paste for Delphi Tool menu entries
In my last post I wrote about the export and import feature for custom Tools menu entries that GExperts adds to the Delphi IDE. I also mentioned that I was thinking about adding a custom clipboard format for copying and pasting these entries between multiple Delphi instances / versions. OK, I did that. GExperts now … Continue reading GExperts adds copy and paste for Delphi Tool menu entries
New GExperts IDE enhancement: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu
The Delphi IDE has the quite useful option to add custom entries to the Tools menu. These entries call external programs with some "Macros" that reference the current IDE status, e.g. the currently active project or source file and some of their properties like the output directory or the current editor column and row. GExperts … Continue reading New GExperts IDE enhancement: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu
Fix for Access Violation in u_dzAutocompleteStrings
A while ago I blogged about the various possibilities for auto completion in TEdits. I created several units that supply auto completion based on a StringList files directories path (basically also directories) They all followed a basic principle: Implement IAutoComplete and IAutoComplete2 and provide different implementations for the IEnumStrings interface. They worked fine in Delphi … Continue reading Fix for Access Violation in u_dzAutocompleteStrings
New Icons for MMX
Uwe Raabe, who took over maintaining MMX Code Explorer is collecting money to pay for a designer who will create new icons for MMX Code Explorer. While I don't think that nice looking icons should be high on the priority list, it's Uwe's decision, not mine. I sent some of the money I got donated … Continue reading New Icons for MMX
The 3 different License Types for Delphi
I blogged about the Embarcadero License Center (ELC) and how to use it remotely. But I never went to the trouble of explaining the different kinds of license types that are available for Delphi (after all: I don't sell these licenses, so why bother?). But somebody else just did: CodePartners blogged about Network Licensing in … Continue reading The 3 different License Types for Delphi
Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi
Sometimes your program needs to block the screen saver from automatically kicking in. My use case was that the program was recording data and whenever the screen saver was active, the data was lost (No idea why, it probably had something to do with the way HID is implemented in Windows.) So I was looking … Continue reading Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi
Autocompletion for TEdits revisited
I wrote about autocompletion for TEdits before here and here. Back then I was using the SHAutoComplete API function in the Shlwapi.dll because I am a lazy basterd™. That hasn't changed really but I also love fiddling with stuff, so some years ago, I actually added directory and general string completion to dzlib (and apparently … Continue reading Autocompletion for TEdits revisited