Monthly Archives: April 2017

Converted dfm to Text Format

Posted on 26. April 2017 by roman

Today Stefan Glienke mentioned at Google+ that there are some libraries which still use the binary format for dfm files. This is an issue since it is nearly impossible to recognize the changes in your vcs. I do remember old … Continue reading →

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Free Capacities

Posted on 10. April 2017 by roman

Hi all, I currently have free capacities. I’m looking for remote contract work. I’m a specialist in all Delphi versions, particularly components, SQL databases, ORM and multi-threading. — Thanks, Roman

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Supports

Posted on 6. April 2017 by roman

This week I had to maintain some legacy code that uses many interfaces and supports in order to find out if a specific interface is supported: type IMyInterface = interface(IInterface) [‘{F500EEDD-032E-4D15-A8C0-EFF673C2AF01}’] procedure DoSomething; end; procedure MyProcedure(const AIntf: IInterface); implementation uses … Continue reading →

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FreeAndNil

Posted on 6. April 2017 by roman

There are a lot of articles about the use and abuse of FreeAndNil but there is one point I really don’t like about FreeAndNil: It is not type-safe. Let’s have a look at the implementation: { FreeAndNil frees the given … Continue reading →

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VirtualTreeView Version 6.6.0

Posted on 5. April 2017 by roman

I just updated the TurboPack version of the VirtualTreeView to the version 6.6.0 and asked Embarcadero to update GetIt.

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Nice Approach For Exception Safe Code

Posted on 5. April 2017 by roman

Maybe everyone knows the issue with code that is not exception safe. Let’s see an example: function MyFunction: TMyObject; begin Result := TMyObject,Create; Result.DoSomething; end; The function MyFunction returns an instance of an object which is normally no problem. But … Continue reading →

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