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The Spirit of Delphi: January 2011
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Sooo you like the "Peak preview" of Windows 7? If so, then I bet you would want to play with it in your Delphi application, correct? Here's how you do it in a few steps:. A) create a new VCL forms application;. B) add Dwmapi to uses clause;. C) copy and paste and paste from the following code;. EmptyStr) and ( LHParent = 0) or (LHParent = LHDesktop) and ( LExStyle and WS EX TOOLWINDOW = 0) or (LExStyle and WS EX APPWIN...
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The Spirit of Delphi: Generic array slice
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Friday, January 18, 2013. Not sure if anyone created(in delphi) something similar yet, which should indicate that it's usage is very limited, but here it goes. Ever played with huge arrays and you always have to copy chunks into smaller arrays which then you want to feed to some algorithm(or pass a bunch of indexes)? So, what is an array slice? Says that it grabs a slice. A block of memory into another, we can surely do better than that, right?
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Delphi Pipe – twm's blog
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From someone who traveled abroad to learn appreciating his own country. Yahoo pipes is shutting down – DelphiPipe will die. Comments Off on Yahoo pipes is shutting down – DelphiPipe will die. Yahoo just announced that they will be shutting down Yahoo Pipes. On 2015-08-30. Unfortunately that means that DelphiPipe. Will also die, because I don’t have the resources to move it to anywhere else. At least there is a new service that competes with DelphiFeeds. Andy’s Blog and Tools added to DelphiPipe. Many of ...
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The Spirit of Delphi: October 2010
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Friday, October 22, 2010. Sooo you got your first milion, now what? Let's just say that you just won € 1.7 mil. in lottery(tax free). What would you do with that much money in the current economy state? There are lots of things you can do with it, but the million euro question is: What's the best thing you can do with it. For you and MAYBE for others as well. Let's just list a few possibilities. Quit the job and waste the money;. PS Don't forget, ...
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The Spirit of Delphi: July 2010
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Saturday, July 31, 2010. You got 25% chance of success, do you feel lucky? I remember few years ago playing a game called Silkroad(which stolen 2 years of my life – that's another story), in this game when you do alchemy, in some situations, you have a X percent chance of success, I had a lot of successes but also failures, anyways. I was wondering how do they calculate the success? You can implement an idea in many ways. Add "Math" to uses clause).
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The Spirit of Delphi: May 2012
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Tuesday, May 8, 2012. SynMiniMap updated to v. 1.1. SynMiniMap has been updated, update or get it by clicking here. The new version carries a few fixes and enhancements:. Editor scroll using MiniMap(normal reversed). Ability to override tab width, by default it will grab the editor's tab width, now you can override it and set it to 4 for example, very useful if editing html and suffering from div-itism. If you wish to contribute to the project the...
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The Spirit of Delphi: June 2010
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Monday, June 21, 2010. I remember two years ago working for a company that had as main activity OCR, I really really hated what I did, but I expected to get a job as a programmer in the end(which did not f* * * happen), I had to do something so that time would pass faster, my last resort was music, here are some song that made my time pass much easier:. Evanescence - my immortal. Evanescence - Bring Me To Life. Theatre of Tragedy - Venus. I suspec...
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The Spirit of Delphi: For romanians
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Tuesday, September 18, 2012. Salutare, am un card cadou(transmisibil) de la emag in urma unei achizitii, valoarea cardului este de RON 103, daca cineva este interesat/a sa achizitioneze un produs din categoriile enumerate mai jos pana in data de 23 septembrie(adica duminica asta), lasati e-mail-ul intr-un comment si va voi trimite codul, e-mail-ul nu va fi facut public. Eu nu pot sa-l folosesc deoarece nu am nevoie de nimic din aceste categorii.
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The Spirit of Delphi: August 2010
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Generic method to invoke a save dialog. There are many times when you need to invoke a Save dialog(TSaveDialog) and more likely you do NOT wish to add another component on the form. here's what I came up with:. Add "Dialogs" to uses clause). Posted by Dorin Duminica. Sunday, August 15, 2010. Links to this post. Thursday, August 5, 2010. That's fine until your chart data changes every X period of time, let's say each 5 minu...
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The Spirit of Delphi: April 2010
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The Spirit of Delphi. Programming tips, tricks and tools. Monday, April 26, 2010. How to compare two streams byte by byte. If you wish to check for differences between two files but you don't want to "see" them, just to know the percent of differences, here's a utility function that does just that. Buffer2[Index] then / difference found! Var Stream1: TFileStream; Stream2: TFileStream; Differences: Extended; begin Differences := 0.0000; if OpenDialog1.Execute and (OpenDialog1.Files.Count =...TurboHashedSt...
