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If only there was a code formatter written in Delphi that is open source!

The best practice is coding in a way that you don't need it

A new powerful highlighter called Omni (for omnipotent) has been added to SynEdit. Importantly, this highlighter allows the saving/loading of highlighter settings to/from ini files. The project now includes 189 new ini-based highlighters in addition to the 75 ones that were already included. Sample using the PowerShell ini-based highlighter. Notice that code-folding is automatically supported. Structure highlighting is also supported: A component editor has also been added that can be used at both design and run-time. See this discussion for details. This is based on a significant code contribution by Jan Fiala, the author of PSPad. Kudos to Jan!

We're excited to share the first public release of pasfmt, a free and open-source code formatter for Delphi. It is a complete and opinionated formatting tool. The latest release has support for: Complete line wrapping (and unwrapping) for all Delphi structures Configurable line length limit Removing trailing whitespace Change spacing around all tokens (e.g., operators and keywords) Parallel file formatting with directory traversal Removing repeated empty newlines Line ending normalisation To get started, either try our web demo, or download the executable (this one for Windows) and follow the getting started guide. Additionally, there is an IDE plugin with support for: In-editor formatting Format-on-save Cursor tracking You may be wondering how this tool compares to the existing formatters (e.g., GExperts, JEDI, Formatter.exe). This tool goes a lot further than the alternatives by having a complete opinion on how every line should be wrapped or unwrapped; the original layout is (almost) ignored. By ignoring most of the input format, it produces consistently styled code across a whole codebase. We hope that you enjoy pasfmt, let us know what you think!

Don't worry, there will be lots of documentation. - And I might even be generous enough to open source it. I would, however, strongly recommend rewriting pasfmt in a more sane language sooner rather than later.

Sadly not. I don't want to be littering my code with //formatting off/on etc. So I format by hand and it is what it is.

It is a fair enough question. In the context of a code formatter, it means that it has a strong opinion on what the code should look like. Predominantly, this manifests in having few or no configuration options and a highly consistent style. Other formatters like prettier, biome, and google-java-format call themselves opinionated.

Great idea crumbled by rust. There are other languages which would have been more appropriate to use for the implementation and would make contributions easier. Sad. And to expand on that: When picking an implementation language, besides evaluating what solves the problem at hand, you also have to consider target community and who are going to deal with it down the line - especially for open source projects and that weighs higher than one's favorite language. Rust has a toxic community, an ecosystem mess akin to npm and overall just a poorly designed language with unnecessary complexity driven up by hype. (I know this from first hand experience of having to deal with rust projects before and digging inside the rust compiler) While some have drunk the rust kool-aid, I'd rather have seen Modern Object Pascal used or, if you want to be fancy, Zig. There are good reasons why many prominent projects are abandoning rust.

That comment didn't age well I guess

Wow. A Microsoft scanner being lenient on an app written by a Microsoft compiler, and harder on an app written by a competitor's compiler. Who would have thought... 😜 And we all know how well AI writes good code...

IIRC, Snagit has that as default shortcut.

TO be honest it is not exactly a service but stapled to one, see this cryptic error most likely caused and reported from User-Mode Driver, as kernel mode driver are more detailed error, yet in both cases these drivers belong and part of to an OS service as mentioned above, i think it is between System Restore, Defender or some network mapped drive.

Hey, we have AI nowadays to solve that problem: Just tell it to convert the rust code to Object Pascal and be done. And if the first one does not succeed, try others.

None of them have a: "Don't touch my assignment alignments" option? 🙂

They are using the same DLL instance? That is not how you should make the import lib for MSVC. Use MSVC's command-line DUMPBIN and LIB tools to create a new import lib from the DLL itself. Use DUMPBIN to create a .DEF file for the DLL's exports, and then use LIB to generate a import lib from the .DEF file. Which items are you referring to exactly? There is nothing "bold" in what you showed. You really should not be calling Application->ProcessMessages() at all. What is the actual crash? What is the error message, verbatim? Does the crash happen while the DLL is being loaded into memory, or inside of DllEntryPoint()? Have you tried debugging the DLL in the IDE? Configure your DLL project with your MSVC app exe as its Host. Then put breakpoints in the DLL code as needed. When you run the DLL project, it will execute the MSVC app, which will then load your DLL, and the debugger should attach to it so it can step through the DLL code normally.

Windows Composition API Is Still WinAPI ? Even though it’s sometimes called the “composition API,” functions like SetWindowCompositionAttribute or DwmSetWindowAttribute are exported from system DLLs (e.g., user32.dll or dwmapi.dll) and thus part of the Windows API. On Windows 11, you can apply Acrylic (DWMSBT_ACRYLIC) or Mica (DWMSBT_MAINWINDOW) to a window without a custom GPU pipeline, and it’s still hardware-accelerated by DWM behind the scenes. Delphi Borderless Form Native Windows 11 Rounded Corners You can request real rounded corners via the Windows 11 API

I have found a startup or two that is using Delphi. But, I'm not really looking for that kind of situation. Too much of a roller coaster ride for me.

My bad.. I had forgotten that I did some modifications to Grijjy.OAuth2.pas to allow signing with ES256 as well as RS256. For now, I've attached the modified unit here. Please place it in the same folder as the project. Grijjy.OAuth2.pas

These parts make the whole answer smell of AI - a bad one, since those folders do not exist

Am I right in assuming that the plugin calls the executable to do the formatting? Calling an executable is rather expensive (meaning: slow) in Windows, it would be really nice it you could also produce a DLL, that can be called from this plugin (and possibly other tools). 32 and 64 bits, if possible.

My formatting is so quirky that I prefer to hand-craft it.

Must be something specific on your PC. Using Delphi 12.2 Patch 2 on Windows 10 64-bit, when I create an INI file with the specifications you have described, it takes only 150ms with TIniFile. Switch to TMemIniFile and that drops to under 5ms.

Hi there I started my own Delphi YouTube channel and I want to create more content. Therefore, I came up with this idea. Let me know... O:-)

I want "F2084 Internal Error L902" gone !!!

Some of my stuff is in the QA portal (menu fixes I think) and I still have to use it despite the reports being marked "fixed." But most of my workarounds are done on-the-fly with my own inherited form and frame classes and would be too much bother for me to pull out to show anybody. I guess if I were to share a "feel" for how it's going, I'd say it's getting better. I think Embarcadero should force their developers to use their own IDE in a mixed-DPI environment in various configurations and not stop fixing scaling issues until they can do everything seamlessly. Who knows, maybe they already have, and they just aren't exposing the problems I run into.