tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117720752026-02-12T17:50:52.078+00:00Comments about happenings on DelphiDabbler.com and my wanderings through the world of the Delphi programming language.Delphidabblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04753825418913482066noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11772075.post-79693642074849476302026-02-12T17:50:00.006+00:002026-02-12T17:50:52.065+00:00

As I hinted in the previous post, another new release of my rather niche file date comparison utility has escaped into the wild. This one's v2.5.0.After releasing v2.4.0 I was browsing Delphi's RTL code that reads file dates and found that, when requesting the file creation date for Linux, the code actually returns the status changed date. After some research I found that most Linux file systems

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Hot on the heels of the release of v2.3.0 of CompFileDate, my file date comparison utility, comes v2.4.0.The main thing about this release is that I've managed to build a Linux version. That's a first for me. This release ends 30+ years of Windows only programming!There's a new script that creates debug builds for all OS targets, to save having to build them all separately from the IDE, but no

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What a time I've had since Christmas: a mild cold, then a weird dose of flu followed by a nasty cold that I can't shake off. Marvellous way to start the year.Still, when I'm not well I often do a bit of coding to take my mind of things, so here's a new release of CompFileDate that compares file dates! It's very simple. It can compare either file creation or modification dates of two files using

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Well, it's been a long haul to get this little diff and patch suite from v0.2.x to v1.0.22 years and 2 days ago I released my first attempt at translating Stefan Reuther's bdiff / bpatch utilities from C to Pascal. Stefan's original code was first published in 1999. This was v0.2.1(pas).Then, 1 day short of 2½ years ago the first v1.0 beta was released.1 year, 1 month and 1 week ago the release

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Despite continually threatening to retire the System Information Unit, here's an updateThe update was prompted by GitHub user weirdo12 who submitted a pull request that added $EXTERNALSYM compiler directives to make the code usable with C++ Builder. His code is included in this release.While adding the above code I decided I'd better update TPJOSInfo with details of all the changes to

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Did I say that the previous post was the last concerning changes in response to the release of Delphi 13? Well I lied!I remembered that my Code Snippets Collection didn't have any information about whether snippets compiled with Delphi 13, so I've been through all 700+ of them and checked. All the results are now in the database.The collection specification docs needed to be updated as

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And finally ... after a few updates to reflect the release of Delphi 13 Florence, last but not least we have an update to CodeSnip.This program can test compile snippets with any Delphi compiler installed on the host computer, along with Free Pascal. But every time there's a new Delphi release CodeSnip has to be modified to be able to use it. I wish there was a config file to update, but it's not

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The second thing I did after the release of Delphi 13, after updating my website, was to enable the unit-scope look-up program, DUSE, to create a new mapping of all the units used by Delphi 13 to their unit scopes.This is easy to do:Having clicked OK then Save And Close DUSE will read the names of all library units installed with Delphi 13. A new "mapping" named Delphi 13

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Now that Delphi 13 Florence is out, I've updated delphidabbler.com to bring relevant pages up to date. The changes are:The Delphi Version Numbers page has been updated with relevant information about Delphi 13. The most notable change is that the product version has now been brought into line with the compiler version, internal version and defined symbol. This means the product version has jumped

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The new feature currently planned for release in the forthcoming Delphi 13 that I'm most excited about is the inline if statement.According to Marco Cantu's blog post, the new syntax is like this:X := if Left < 100 then 22 else 45;Another use is something like this:ShowMessage(if Odd(X) then 'odd' else 'even');The values returned from the then and else parts must be of the same or compatible

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I just heard from Ian Barker @ Embarcadero that some Delphi and C++ Builder Community Edition users have been receiving messages that their CE license was expiring. Unfortunately, when they went to renew, they would get an unhelpful reply which didn't renew their license (and incorrectly mentioned a trial period).That issue should now be solved. If you've had that problem then hou should go to

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Yesterday the first release of my new console application, BogBat v0.1.0 was released.I wanted a program to replace templates (or placeholders) in a text file with values from a data file. I didn't need anything fancy such as loops, conditionals, built in text processing functions or white space control. Only simple replacement was needed. And the name, well it's the Bog Basic template

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Whoops!It's just been pointed out to me that the Array Utilities Unit I published yesterday isn't accessible because the GitHub repo is private. Thx Luca.I've now made it public.➡️ Download the 1st release from GitHubSorry about that

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Yesterday I added a shiny new unit to the DelphiDabbler Code Library - the Array Utilities Unit. It lives in the ddablib/arrayutils repo on GitHub.This unit, named DelphiDabbler.Lib.ArrayUtils.pas, provides a single "Advanced" record, TArrayUtils, that contains static methods that perform common operations on generic arrays. There are numerous overloaded versions of many of the methods.

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CodeSnip v4.26.0 has just been released.This release focusses mainly on adding more file formats when saving snippet information to file. You can now save such info in Plain Text, Markdown, HTML 5 & XHTML in addition to the existing Rich Text Format.The Help menu item that used to link to the CodeSnip blog now links here, as does any read-me file that links to the blog.There have been a few

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It's nice to be able to release a version of CodeSnip containing new features instead of bug fixes. Except that this release also includes bug fixes, including episode 3 of the hibernation bug fix saga.So what's new? Not a lot except for some new snippet export options:For the longest time you've been able to get a copy on the clipboard all the information about a snippet that gets

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It had to happen didn't it? Not long after my post about yesterday's bug fix release of CodeSnip, Oliver reached out to point out a potential problem with the way I'd implemented it. See the linked post and comments if you're interested in the details.Suffice to say that the problem was sufficient for me to hunt for an alternative solution. Having found one I've rushed out

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This is just a quick post to apologise to Oliver for accidentally deleting his very useful comment on yesterday's post about fixing a long running bug in CodeSnip.I've reinstated as much of his comment as I could glean from an email notification as a reply to the deleted comment.Suffice to say, I'm now fixing the CodeSnip fix as a result of the info Oliver provided!So thanks for your help

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This has been a  l o n g  time coming.For several years a nasty access violation bug has been lurking inside CodeSnip. It crashed the program when the computer was resumed from hibernation, but only sometimes. Because the bug was intermittent and required numerous hibernation / resume cycles to be run before it finally cropped up it defied diagnosis for a long, long time.Until now.

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Here we go again. I've found another repo with some outstanding issues and part completed code. So once again things have been finished off and the result is the release of Version Information Editor (VIEd) v2.17.0.The release is pretty much a tidying up exercise. The code, like me, is old and not pretty. So too make it less embarrassing there's a lot of refactoring been done. Some dialogue boxes

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As part of my current manic programming streak, I've been poking around in some of my neglected repos (I really do have too many). I noticed that last year I'd been doing some work on PasHi , my Pascal source code highlighter console app, but had never finished it. So I finished it, and the result is this v2.4.0 release.A few more command line options have been added and one bug has been

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My busy streak of programming continues!v0.5.0 of GBG, my little utility that creates files filled with pseudo-random bytes of Garbage, is now available.Previous releases would fill up a 10MiB buffer of random stuff and then repeatedly output that until a file of the required size had been generated. So, for files smaller than 10MiB all the data was random but for larger files the data did

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What I hope is the last v0.x release of my Fractions unit has just been released. If all is well v1.0 should finally be out in May 25, just 12 years after it first appeared.This unit provides an advanced record, TFraction, that encapsulates an immutable fraction and a whole bunch of methods for manipulating them. There are also a lot of operator overloads that make it easy to perform arithmetic

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Following a bug report I've updated DUSE, the Delphi Unit Scope name Expander program, to allow Delphi 12 unit names to be imported easily.That's it really. If you use DUSE and Delphi 12 this is worth the update.🠞 Get DUSE v0.3.1 from GitHub.

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v2.2.3 of the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Collection has just been released. It includes bug fixes, so you should updatedFor details see this post on the CodeSnip blog.

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