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Hello Uwe, How to clone MMX settings to another system? "Sytem" mean, diffrent windows, diffrent IDE version. Which file and where is that (path & filename)? I think for settings, ini file is always better then registry entry. For multi user (OS) windows, this file(s) or path be in registry. otherwise under istall dir can be. This is my suggestion just. Thank you, regards.
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Deep Dive into Design Patterns
Lars Fosdal replied to Primož Gabrijelčič's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
The book is on my desktop, under the 70-762 Developing SQL Databases book. I need to start reading. -
I always thought that happens as soon as you are in the thread (not necessarily reading it). But I guess you want to mark it read without entering it, correct?
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Getting the Windows version
Sherlock replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
How about turning those few lines into an abstract? Something short and juicy like "In this blog post I'll discuss the possibilities to get the real Windows version". That should be enough to either get the attention of the interested, or inform the uninterested of the contents so they can move on. BTT: Very useful, thank you! - Yesterday
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I am looking for the best place to ask questions regarding Spring4D's persistence functionality known as Marshmellow. I am starting a SQLLite3 project and would like to know how Spring4D maps the specified types in the Column attribute to SQLLite types. I also have a lazily loaded list owned by another object, call it Parent. When a Parent is created and saved to the database if I then try to add a Child object to the lazily loaded list, I get an error that: 'No delegate has been assigned'. My code looks like the examples I see in the test projects. What am I doing wrong?
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A more common issue could be if the file is accessible for read or not. Being written or otherwise held locked from another app, f.x. and whether a retry is desirable or not.
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Wow, first time using repeat ... until
Lars Fosdal replied to Mike Torrettinni's topic in Algorithms, Data Structures and Class Design
You are right. I was confusing it with the i++ vs ++i effects. -
Wow, first time using repeat ... until
David Heffernan replied to Mike Torrettinni's topic in Algorithms, Data Structures and Class Design
No. The only C++ loop with an interaction statement is for. -
RSP-11530 was fixed for Rio, which means it should also show the correct Build.
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Getting the Windows version
dummzeuch replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Thanks for explaining that. Somehow I thought that adding a link after these few lines would be make it clear that there is more to the post, especially since the category is about blog posts. Apparently it's not. -
Getting the Windows version
dummzeuch replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
I stand corrected. Somehow I missed the additional calls to GetNativeSystemInfo and GetProductVersion. Yes, at least in Delphi 10.3 (I haven't checked previous versions), TOsVersion detects Windows 8.1 and 10 correctly. -
Any advice when to use FileExists?
David Schwartz replied to Mike Torrettinni's topic in General Help
Historically speaking, the old DOS FAT file system was notoriously inefficient when it came to looking up filenames. The original FAT directory segments held something like 63 x 8.3 filenames and the last entry was a pointer to the next segment. Each time you ask for a file, the FAT file system would begin a linear search at the first directory segment and scan through each one to the very end of the list before it knew if it existed or not. It was always faster to get a list of files first into a memory buffer, sort it, then search that first before probing the file system. But the real solution laid in splitting things up so you didn't have more than a few directory segments anywhere. That usually led to something where you had two directory levels: one that was simply A to Z, and the next that contained folders or files that begin with that letter. Sometimes it would help a lot to go down and additional level. Also, FAT directory segments were filled from front-to-back. If a file was deleted, the slot for it would be cleared. A new filename added to a folder would take the first available slot. So putting thousands of files ('n') into a FAT-based folder would take on average O(n/2) tests for filename equality. Going from front to back probing with names, whether it was an ordered or unordered folder, would take the same amount of time. Introduction of long filenames added further delays if you used the long filenames. I'm not sure what FAT32 did to improve this, if anything. Windows introduced caching of directory segments that sped things up considerably. From what I understand, NTFS introduced something closer to what Unix does, and resolved this inefficiency somewhat, although I never did anything that pushed the limits of an NTFS-based file system the way I used to do with old FAT-based file systems. With faster CPUs and more extensive caching in Windows, the problem seemed to fade out. Part of the solution was to use FindFirst/FindNext, even if this meant you built a list in memory to search against before asking the file system for anything. -
Wow, first time using repeat ... until
Lars Fosdal replied to Mike Torrettinni's topic in Algorithms, Data Structures and Class Design
@David Heffernan, isn't there a variation where the iteration is done before the statement? -
Barcode 128 and printing width
Attila Kovacs replied to Magno's topic in RTL and Delphi Object Pascal
With custom display DPI's too? Doesn't your thermal printer support any language? -
Can you set the TImage canvas info to the same properties as the printer canvas? From experience, the PPI / resolution / dimension puzzle comes into effect, and if the TImage is operating with different world coordinate resolution than the printer, you run into problems with scaling. If you use WinAPI GetDC and GetDeviceCaps on the printer - you should be able to get the info you need.
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Getting the Windows version
David Heffernan replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
I think that the point Angus was making was that he read the text, and did not follow the link. The text seemed to be the first two paragraphs of the blog post, but without mentioning that there was more to be found by following the link. I have to say that I read the post two or three times wondering what it was that you were trying to tell us. Since the text you did include was only part of the story, it would in my view, have been better not to have included any text and just referred us to the offsite link to your blog post. That's at least three people that were confused by the post. Listen to our feedback or not. It's completely voluntary. 😉 -
Yes, one of the first things I did back in XE7. However Writeln(TOSVersion.ToString); returns: Windows 10 (Version 10.0, Build 0, 64-bit Edition) Because in in TOSVersion.Create: if not GetNetWkstaMajorMinor(MajorNum, MinorNum) then GetProductVersion(kernelbase, MajorNum, MinorNum, BuildNum); The call to GetNetWkstaMajorMinor doesn't return a Build, if it failed GetProductVersion would have returned the correct Build.
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I need to "compress" a barcode type Code128 print with a termal printer. The size needed is 3.5cm. I have a TImage with a size that if I print it works as it should. The Printer form I am using has a kind of TImage so I can move the image using TImage.Picture, but I supposed that once I stretch the report form image it could be printed, but no. The final rendered image gets "cutted" or lost the quality. I really dunno how to fix it.
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Use Reverse Geocoding - How it really works?
Magno replied to Magno's topic in Network, Cloud and Web
So, it uses the Google API at end, as I supposed. Thank you guys!!! -
Yes, iOS 10.x simulators are working. I was so tired downloading and testing those simulators that I feel the need to ask in here. Thanks.
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In my last blog post Getting the Windows version, I claimed that there is no way to get the actual version number of Windows 10 without reading the version information of the Kernel32.dll and interpreting it 1. Since then I have been told that there is actually a Registry key that contains the Windows version: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion It has several entries that can be used to get the same version info that the Winver tool displays to the user. On Windows 10 that’s: ProductName ReleaseId CurrentBuildNumber UBR On my test installation they get me “Windows 10 Pro” Version “1809” (OS Build “17762”.”437″) (The quotes denote values read from the registry.) https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/04/22/getting-the-windows-version-revisited/ Just to make it clear: The above text is not the full blog post.
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Getting the Windows version
dummzeuch replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
This was not about a video but about a blog post. But feel free to continue not reading anything I post. It's completely voluntary. I agree that most videos on programming are a waste of time. It's still my opinion that somebody who comments on a blog post should at least have read it. If you had, you would have noticed that I already mentioned RtlGetVersion and discarded it because it does not give me the information I wanted. Just in case you are interested nonetheless: I have just written another blog post crediting your hint. If you don't want to be credited with something that you apparently deem to be too trivial for your attention please let me know. -
GExperts Procedure List: Show ALL procedures in the whole project
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in GExperts
I understand. It's Easter. You are not only a good programmer but also a very humorous man. -
Getting the Windows version
Angus Robertson replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Yes, I see the word video in very small letters buried in a line at the top of the screen, but I read these groups backwards from Unread Content, and you never mentioned you were posting a link to a video in the root post. That would have be sufficient for me to skip this thread, even less time to watch beginners how to program videos . My apologies for wasting your time by posting something useful for other developers. Angus -
Getting the Windows version
dummzeuch replied to dummzeuch's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
The category is "Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos". But hey, who am I to interpret that ...
