Category Archives: Tips and Tricks

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

Platform Icons in Alexandria 11.1

Posted on 28. March 2022 by roman

With the brand new version Alexandria 11. 1 of RAD Studio Embarcadero introduced icons for the platform in the so called project gallery. Since Alexandria 11.1 supports High DPI the platforms icons fit to the current resolution of the screen. … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, RAD Studio 11 Alexandria, Tips and Tricks, TMS Software, TMS Web Core, Uncategorized | Comments Off

UltraEdit

Posted on 28. August 2021 by roman

Maybe most of you already heard it but Idera has acquired UltraEdit! I’m using UltraEdit for many years. It is a very powerful text editor which many features. I mostly like the hex editor. Anyway, maybe in the future UltraEdit … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off

TBytesStream

Posted on 29. June 2021 by roman

I guess that you all already worked with a TBytesStream. It is derived from a TMemoryStream and offers direct access to the underlying TBytes: … TBytesStream = class(TMemoryStream) private … property Bytes: TBytes read FBytes; end; … So far so … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Encoding of .pas files part 2

Posted on 6. April 2021 by roman

In my last post I explained that it is a good strategy to encode .pas files in UTF8. From RAD Studio 10.4 you can set under “Tools/Options/User Interface/Editor” the “Default file encoding” to UTF8. In older versions of RAD Studio … Continue reading →

Posted in RAD Studio 10 Seattle, RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, RAD Studio XE5, RAD Studio XE6, RAD Studio XE7, RAD Studio XE8, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Encoding of .pas files

Posted on 3. April 2021 by roman

This week I would like to talk about the encoding of .pas files. Normally they are ANSI encoded which is no problem since all Delphi statements are ASCII encoded. But the exception are comments. Many developers overlook this issue, but … Continue reading →

Posted in C++-Builder, Delphi, RAD Studio 10 Seattle, RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, RAD Studio XE5, RAD Studio XE6, RAD Studio XE7, RAD Studio XE8, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off

Delphi 10.4.2

Posted on 3. March 2021 by roman

I just installed Delphi 10.4.2 and compiled a huge customer’s project. This project has about 2.3 million lines of code. Normally it is written and maintained with Delphi 10.3.3 Rio. For working inside the IDE it is compiled for Win32 … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, Tips and Tricks | Comments Off

Async and Await in TMS Web Core

Posted on 27. January 2021 by roman

Today we published a blog article on the TMS Software web site. In this article Leon explains how to write complex asynchronous Web applications with TMS Web Core and Pascal. The trick is that asynchronous calls can be written in … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, HTML, RAD Studio 10 Seattle, RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo, RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, RAD Studio XE7, RAD Studio XE8, Tips and Tricks, TMS Software, TMS Web Core, Uncategorized, Visual Studio Code | Comments Off

Did you know…?

Posted on 10. December 2020 by roman

Did you know that the RAD Studio Welcome Page shows if you have installed all necessary updates? I just learned that a necessary patch for macOS Big Sur was missing in my installation. Here you can see the current status … Continue reading →

Posted in C++-Builder, Delphi, RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off

TMS Web Core and FinalBuilder

Posted on 8. December 2020 by roman

TMS Web Core offers a command line compiler that can be used in Continuous Integration systems like the FinalBuilder. There you can simply add the so called “Execute Program” action to your project and select the TMSWebCompiler.exe as the program … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, Third Party Components, Tips and Tricks, TMS Software, TMS Web Core, Uncategorized | Comments Off

ModelMaker Code Explorer

Posted on 30. November 2020 by roman

Today I would like to recommend the ModelMaker Code Explorer (MMX) as a must-have IDE plugin. It allows to refactor, sort and organize the code. It also shows bad coding style like long methods, magic numbers and hard-coded strings. Originally … Continue reading →

Posted in Delphi, Third Party Components, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized | Comments Off