Programming is thinking, not typing (was: Common sense isn't)
Based on an idea and partial implementation submitted by Sven Harazim from Landrix Software I have just added support for GNUGetText to the GExperts Message Dialog expert. It now looks like this: And generates Code like this: Or, if you’d rather use the Windows API: which generates code like this: There are even two new … Continue reading GNUGetText support for the GExperts Message Dialog expert
Today, I finally found the time to read up on some rather ancient e-mails. One was from Paolo in the dxgettext mailing list about a bug in gnugettext.pas: With SVN revision 75 and the following, AddDomainForResourceString() has no effect, additional translations are not used. Suggested patch: original code from SVN revision 79: patched code: He … Continue reading Getting a good night’s sleep is important
Delphi (XE2) comes with various predefined so called live templates which you can display with View->Templates. One of them is called “raise” and expands to I don’t know about you but I use Exception.CreateFmt much more often than simply Exception.Create, so it annoys the hell out of me when every time I type raise I … Continue reading Delphi Live Templates: raise exception.CreateFmt
Today I had an interesting bug to fix: I used a form’s Classname (Yes, I have a reason not to use the Name.) to persist its size in the registry and wondered why it didn’t work. Looking at the registry entries I found, that there was an entry with the class name suffixed by a … Continue reading Classname with !dx suffix?
In Using my buildtools I wrote that you must prepare your project for translation with dxgettext manually. No longer, there is now a script PrepareForTranslation.cmd that does it for you.
My buildtools for Delphi have been available on SourceForge for quite a while. I use them in all my projects, including – slightly modified – in GExperts. Just in case somebody else is interested, I’ll outline how to use them in a project. Requirements First, your project has to follow the following structure: Project src … Continue reading Using my buildtools
GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a release and currently even the original download doesn’t seem … Continue reading GORM experimental release
After I had to install the gazillion jvcl packages into my Delphi IDE manually again (Yes, I know it comes with an installer, I have got my reasons not to use it.), I finally grew tired of this and wrote this tool: dzPackageInst is a command line program for installing designtime packages into Delphi IDEs. … Continue reading Install Delphi Packages from commandline
You know these innocuous file filters used by Open / Save dialogs? They usually look like this: First Filetype (*.ex1)|*.ex1|Second Filetype (*.ex2)|*.ex2|All Files (*.*)|*.* And since typing them is so difficult because you must remember to type all these pipe symbols, Delphi provides a property editor for it. Is there anybody who actually likes this … Continue reading Translating file filters
I always wondered why the assemble tool in dxgettext appends the translation files directly to the executable rather than using the existing mechanism of resources. This is no longer necessary. I have updated the gnugettext code to optionally use RCDATA resources named after the files. So you e.g. create a translations.rc file as LOCALE_DE_DEFAULT RCDATA … Continue reading Storing gnugettext translations as resources