Lars Fosdal

It makes missing string quotes obvious, and it helps clarify text building expressions.

SourceCode Pro - No italics BG = Cream Current line = light greenish numbers = red comments = dark gray as I want the code to stand out and keep the comments low key - after all, they should only be necessary as a last effort read 😛

We are making the plunge from SVN to git (on GitHub) and would like some input. Note that although there are other forms of git hosting than GitHub, we don't have a choice in the matter, so recommendations of other forms of hosting are off topic. The obvious candidates (if you are using GitHub) are git for Windows and GitHub desktop. Are there other valuable tools that one should have? Also - how is the git integration in the Delphi IDE, on a scale from 0 - totally worthless, 5 - usable, to 10 - good enough?

Millions of lines of code keep me tethered to Delphi. My employer is paying for it, but the lack of viable alternatives keeps us here, bugs or not. Yet, I predict there is .NET projects eating into my schedule in my near future. I.e. a fresh, new set of bugs to learn to work around.

Two books that are gold for picking up good coding habits - even this long after they were written: Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina & Brad Abrams (Third Edition)

Two things: 1. I really try my best to avoid negations in booleans 2. I try to name methods that do stuff like verbs and where possible put the parameter in context of the name Hence processOrder(aUseWidget: Boolean) { if aUseWidget then { processOrderWithWidget(); } else { processOrderWithoutWidget(); } } And SetControlsEnabled; // Implicit True SetControlsEnabled(True); // Explicit SetControlsEnabled(False);

I think code completion in 10.4.1 is still using the old parser, hence it still misbehaves around certain constructs. @balabuev You should add your example to one of the existing code completion issues in QP - or register a new issue.

Aside from that aPort should be a Word to avoid invalid port values above 65535 ... TMS FixInsight supports a hint for this, though: O804 Method parameter ''Foo'' is declared but never used

Signed .exes helps a little with internal validation and can stop arbitrary (driveby) .exe files from being run, but - yes - they can be cracked and spoofed. But - for such malevolent .exe files to propagate in your network, you already have had a bigger security breach.

I am sure many people would love to see that on GitHub. Any chance?

What if you separate them with a semi-colon instead of a comma?

Moved the questions meta discussion to a separate thread.

Ah, yeah... It is a bit embarrassing, but I still have not even looked at spring4d. I really should. I did follow it on GitHub, but never got around to actually delving into it.

I still use Shell's Sort - but with a bit of extra work to keep the original ordering intact for identical elements. Is there a good implementation of Timsort for Delphi to be found?

Do they still exist? If you manage to find the list of forums (Blogs, Community, Forums), it simply points here: https://www.embarcadero.com/support Is there still an official support forum? It is not easy to find, if there is...

When I write something lengthy, I sometimes do that in OneNote or Google Docs (Autosave FTW) before I paste it into the forum UI and do the final formatting touchups. Web UIs can be so unforgiving.

@mtjmohr It is possible to lock a thread - but that is usually reserved for threads going wildly off in an non-friendly direction. Simply stop adding comments that are "off-topic" to old threads and start new threads for new topics instead.

Quick sort is known to suffer performance-wise on already sorted lists, but with only 100 to 200 elements, that should not be the problem. Other than that, keeping your working data outside UI controls is sound advice.

I noticed that f.x. Paint.NET has the desired behaviour - and respects the Windows theme. Is it still possible to use something like those old-school "spy" programs to see the window class and attributes of the tool windows, to see if anything stands out - or should we assume that it is all done with custom message responses and/or custom paints? None of these have controls with dropdowns or inputs, though - as those are on the toolbar. Not sure if that is coincidental or a design necessity. It also paints the captions alike when not focused.

Well, back to the main windows title color trickeries for you, then 🙂

What if you did not have a popup form as such, but instead have a frame floating in front in the form? You could make the frame look like a form, and it would take a little extra work to make it movable - and it would not be possible to position it outside the parent form.

Does it really matter for the user if the title bar of the main window is not focused? The meaningfulness of the current focus color behaviour has become increasingly diluted by the Electron apps (and others) that run custom colors that doesn't respect the Theme settings at all - focused or not.

It may be that the trick required is to fake the focus color of the main form when the popup is focused, and that the main form is refocused as soon as the mouse goes outside the popup.

Ok, that is a challenge. What kind of control is it that gets focused in the popup? Would it be possible to deny the focus event somehow?

Looks like it is a check for passing the same param twice, not necessarily a check for the out param thing.