Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

Tips and tricks how to avoid common mistakes or how to generally improve your code.

LockBox 3 and 2

Posted on 24. June 2014 by roman

I just updated the SourceForge project. Now LockBox 3 supports XE6 for Win32/Win64/iOS/Android and MaxOSX32. LockBox 2 supports XE6 Win32. For the Blowfish encryption there is a LockBox 2 version Win32/Win64/iOS/Android and MaxOSX32. If you like this version then consider … Continue reading →

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Donation

Posted on 22. June 2014 by roman

Hi folks, during the last weeks I had to maintain lots of open source components for many platforms for Delphi and also C++. Usually I’m doing this tasks in my spare time but the amount of work has increased extremely. … Continue reading →

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IBDAC

Posted on 20. May 2014 by roman

One of my customers is still working with Delphi 5 and wants to move to Delphi XE6. As you can imagine this is a huge step so that we have to do the conversion very carefully. In the Delphi5 code … Continue reading →

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madExcept and XE6

Posted on 25. April 2014 by roman

Today madshi sent me a private email and announced that there will be a XE6 version of madExcept this week. I guess that most of you already know madExcept. It is a great exception handling component that shows you in … Continue reading →

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Anonymous Timer and FireMonkey

Posted on 18. August 2013 by roman

I guess that everyone knows the good old timer and its OnTimer event. There is a timer for the VCL and for FireMonkey as well which are nearly similar. In both timers there is one thing missing: I would like … Continue reading →

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Indexing of Strings

Posted on 20. April 2013 by roman

As everyone knows Delphi strings are 1-based. This means that they are starting at the index 1 and ending at the index “Length()”. The reason is that Borland made the huge strings compatible to the old ShortStrings that had a … Continue reading →

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Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types, Part 3 – Update

Posted on 20. April 2013 by roman

As I already told you, I’m using the great record helpers for intrinsic types. XE3 already ships with the TStringHelper which is defined in System.SysUtils. I looked at the implementation and there a some parts that make me really disappointed. … Continue reading →

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Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types, Part 2 – Update

Posted on 20. April 2013 by roman

This week I used some record helpers for intrinsic types and I think that they are a wonderful feature. This means that you should update at least to XE3 to use this great feature. But as always there are some … Continue reading →

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Record Helpers for Intrinsic Types

Posted on 30. November 2012 by roman

I guess that most of you already heart about it. With Delphi XE3 EMBT introduced record helpers for intrinsic types. E.g. Marco Cantu and Nick Hodges already blogged about it. Just to explain what record helpers for intrinsic types are … Continue reading →

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IntraWeb and Session Timeout

Posted on 29. November 2012 by roman

This week I had to maintain an IntraWeb application. For those who are not familiar with IntraWeb it allows you to create a web application with Delphi. This means that you can design your web application with components and their … Continue reading →

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