I never knew Delphi 2010 could detach from a running process until Delphi XE offered it as an option in a message box, replacing OK/Cancel with Terminate/Detach/Cancel. Make your application user-friendlier by using custom message boxes with custom buttons that clearly indicate their purpose and offer a full set of choices.
Delphi 2009 was the first Delphi version to produce Unicode applications. When it was released I ranted about the needless strings checks that it did. Those were a bit of a hack to allow C++Builder developers to port their applications to Unicode more easily by fixing up at runtime what the developer failed to fix […]
The screen on the recently released iPhone 4 has twice the resolution or four times the number of pixels than all preceding models. The new resolution is about 300 DPI, which is the resolution at which the human eye can no longer see the individual pixels. By comparison, most desktop monitors are around 96 DPI. […]
Delphi XE and C++Builder XE include lots of goodies: regex support in the RTL, subversion integration, Beyond Compare differ, AQTime profiler, and CodeSite logger.
RAD Studio is now shipping. It includes Delphi XE, C++Builder XE, Delphi Prism XE, and RadPHP XE.
The successor of Delphi 2010 will be called Delphi XE rather than Delphi 2011. Embarcadero has also published a new roadmap for Delphi.
I just got a bug report for the latest version of TPerlRegEx. A user from China was getting these errors trying to compile TPerlRegEx: [DCC Warning] PerlRegEx.pas(265): W1063 Widening given AnsiChar constant (#$B7) to WideChar lost information [DCC Error] PerlRegEx.pas(265): E2030 Duplicate case label Needless to say, TPerlRegEx compiled just fine for me on my […]
CodeGear published a “Delphi and Unicode” white paper. It’s an excerpt from the upcoming Delphi 2009 Handbook. I did the technical review of that book’s section on Unicode.
Simple rules for developers migrating from Delphi 2007 to 2009 who haven’t worried about string performance in the past, and don’t want to start to worry about it now.
Benchmark results of running isolated code a million times in a tight loop are meaningless, for a variety of reasons.
Detailed explanation of the reasons behind and impact of the new “string format checking” compiler option in Delphi 2009. Delphi programmers should turn it off, but C++Builder programmers should turn it on.
The “A” functions in the Win32 API are wrappers around the “W” counterparts, with added code page conversions. The Delphi 2009 RTL and VCL use the “W” calls, resulting in a slight performance increase compared with Delphi 2007.