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Colin Wilson’s XN Resource Editor
A really useful tool that I have used for many years, was Colin Wilson's XN Resource Editor. Before he apparently disappeared from the face of the earth, Colin was so kind to release the source code under the MPL on his homepage. Unfortunately this page now is also gone, only a few snapshots in the … Continue reading Colin Wilson’s XN Resource Editor
Specifying a date for MS SQL Server
Today I had the "pleasure" to fix a problem in a customer's SQL server database where some records had wrong values in date fields. The theory is quite simple. Find out which records are affected (there were only 7 of them) and correct the problem with a statement like this: update tablename set datefield='2008-02-14' where … Continue reading Specifying a date for MS SQL Server
GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-07-24 released
This is another test release before Erik is going to do an official 1.39 release. Please report any bugs you may find (preferentially in the GExperts community on Google+ or the bug tracker on SourceForge) Again, I have built installers for each Delphi version. These installers should install everything that is necessary, including the files … Continue reading GExperts 1.38 experimental twm 2016-07-24 released
Default color of a hint window
Since it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere and at least in Delphi 2007 there is no constant for it: The default background color of a hint window is [delphi] const clHintColor = $80FFFF; [/delphi] (Taken from THintWindow.Create)
Updated GExperts Documentation
I added some new pages to my blog to document all the changes and improvements I have made to GExperts that so far are not in the official documentation. I probably still missed a few...
Opening an explorer window from the folder select dialog
Ever used a program that showed one of the folder select dialogs and you wanted to open a normal explorer window showing that folder? There is no button for that and no entry in the popup menu, but you can add one: Create a new shortcut in C:\Users\≶yourname>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo Enter "Explorer" as the location and name … Continue reading Opening an explorer window from the folder select dialog
TMemo vs. Esc key
If you have ever had a TMemo on a modal form with an OK and Cancel button, where the latter has its Cancel property set to true, you might have found that Esc does not cancel the dialog while the memo has got the focus. According to David Heffernan that's because the VCL tells it … Continue reading TMemo vs. Esc key
Sarch path dialog behaviour changed from Delphi 2010 to XE
Yesterday, while working with Delphi 10.1 something happened that made me think I had introduced a bug in the search path dialog enhancement of GExperts: I had dropped some directories from the explorer onto the memo inserted by the GExperts enhancement, switched to the list view and back to the memo, then pressed the "Make … Continue reading Sarch path dialog behaviour changed from Delphi 2010 to XE