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TFile.Size 2.0

Yesterday I got a suggestion for a better implementation for TFile.Size from Stefan Glienke. Many thanks for it, Stefan. In order to make the code compatible to other functions in System.IOUtils, I modified it in the way that I’m raising … Continue reading

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TFile.Size

I use very often the System.IOUtils units with the wonderful classes/records TPath, TDirectory and TFile. They are much more comfortable than the old functions from System.SysUtils like FindFirst etc.. But there is one method I’m really missing: It is the … Continue reading

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EncodeString

This week I had to migrate an application from Delphi XE3 to Delphi Berlin and this application uses a Base64 encoding. Normally Base64 encoding is not difficult stuff and Delphi XE3 simply offers the function EncodeString in the unit Soap.EncdDecd. … Continue reading

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GitHub or Bitbucket

I’m currently hosting the TurboPack components under GitHub but which not surprisingly supports Git. But normally I’m working with HG because of the great TortoiseHG tool. With the the help of the HGGit extension I can use TortoiseHG with Git … Continue reading

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RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin and TurboPack

Maybe most of you already heard the latest news, today RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin shipped. With the release of the version of RAD Studio I updated the TurboPack libraries. You can download the TurboPack libraries manually from the TurboPack website … Continue reading

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ConTEXT Editor 2nd

Today I published the ConTEXT editor. As I explained in my previous post ConTEXT is a small, fast and powerful freeware text editor, developed to serve as a secondary tool for software developers. It has originally been hosted here. During … Continue reading

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ConTEXT Editor

For an interesting RPG II to Delphi project I needed an editor with crosslines. Since the standard commercial an open source editors don’t offer this feature I played a bit with the open source ConTEXT editor which is not maintained … Continue reading

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VirtualTreeView and C++Builder

During the last weeks some people hat problems with the VirtualTreeView and the C++Builder. The reason was an issue with the not called initialization part. But we could find a workaround so that the current versions from JAM and TurboPack … Continue reading

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RAD Studio 10 Seattle and TurboPack

Maybe most of you already heard the latest news, today RAD Studio 10 Seattle shipped. With the release of the version of RAD Studio I updated the TurboPack libraries. You can download the TurboPack libraries manually from the TurboPack website … Continue reading

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TurboPack and Suffix

During the last weeks a lot of guys had problems with the TurboPack libraries. The reason for the issue is the following: They downloaded the sources, opened the packages with XE8 and installed them. The packages then could be found … Continue reading

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