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May I remind you that adding suggestions to the sf.net ticketing system increases your chances of gettimg them implemented?

I should have looked closer at the rfindunit results: There is no identifier that starts with newshortcut, its only part of a word. The uses clause manager searches only for identifiers that start with the given search text. So, maybe it should also search for identifiers that contain in anywhere. As for using rfindunit sources: I looked into it a while ago and found only one advantage: It extracts identifiers from the dcu files when no sources are available. This turns into a drawback when the dcu format changes (which it will). I definitely won't invest the time for reverse engineering the dcu format whenever it changes.

By default, the uses manager only looks for identifiers only in the favorite units. If that is empty, you won't get any. In the settings you can tell it to search all units instead.

For the first time ever I just looked into the option set functionality of the project options dialog: There are Apply and Save buttons for each section and each configuration that read / write .optset files which are in XML format and contain the settings to be changed at some configuration level. This seems very complicated to me, so I wonder whether anybody actually uses it, and if yes, for what and how ?

Some long standing bugs in the GExperts code formatter have been fixed. It’s great to see nearly all unit tests finally succeed. About 10 new test cases have been added too, so the improvement is significant. The fixed bugs including some that have bugged (sorry 😉 ) me for years, ... [read on in the blog post]

The issue as reported to Embarcadero happens with a newly created plugin that uses some small code part copied from GExperts. It's reproducible as described there.

GExperts can do the latter, but not automatically for a whole project, only for the uses clause of the current unit.

I have enabled a notification service for new job offers containing the keyword "Delphi" in Germany from a popular IT magazine. I get about one notification per week. About half of them contain "Delphi" as part of the requirements also listing other programming languages like C#, JavaScript and C++, where it isn't clear what the main language - if there is one - is (it could be maintaining legacy Delphi sources and an ongoing effort of porting to another languages, but that's not clear and since I have never atually asked I don't know). The other half is mostly database centered, about half of these list a recent Delphi version (10.x) the others don't say anything about the version. But some even mention mobile development together with Delphi so at least some new development is going on with current Delphi versions. I don't get notifications on other job offers but I doubt that they are as low as for Delphi for anything but maybe COBOL. Of course that's only a small sample: It is for Germany only It is only from one source In particular it does not include jobs that are offered by "word of mouth", which in the Delphi area seems to be a majority here.

Can somebody explain to me what TForm.Action is for? And how it can be used? The OLH is here, but it does not specifically talk about TForm: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Rio/en/Vcl.Forms.TForm.Action It refers to an example http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/CodeExamples/Rio/en/TFormAction_(Delphi) which I also don't understand. From the example I gather that TForm.Action is not assigned by default, but when and by which mechanism is it executed? It's not that I need it, I just came across this property for the first time (it has existed for over a decade).

I'm not questioning the advantages of actions in general, just that of an action property in TForm. I still haven't understood what that particular one can be used for.

So, the Action is executed when the user clicks on the form?

Make the browser window narrower and it disappears altogether. Then you have to use the menu. Not really an improvement.

"Diesmal funktioniert alles" The last line from "Computer sind doof" by Spliff I don't think there is an English translation of the lyrics or sub titles for this song, sorry. It basically tells about lots of things going wrong when using computers (actually embedded microprocessors, what nowadays would part of the "Internet of things"). Mostly just annoyances. The last part then describes a sequence of computer failure events that leads to the death of Leonid Breschnew and him causing a nuclear war. The last sentence then is "This time everything works."

I have been bitten by methods changing a given record multiple times: Some examples are * changing a const parameter * a property no longer changing its value after adding a getter method for it (boy was that one hard to track down) Nowadays I try to avoid them, but sometimes they are just too convenient...

The IDE's Search -> Go to Line Number dialog contains a drop down which apparently remembers the last used line numbers, so the user can re-select them. I don't remember ever using this feature. Does anybody else?

You mean "doing something with computers" is useful? If you really wanted to learn something useful, you should have learned gardening, masonry or carpentry. 😉

I'm sure we all feel with you. Everybody has been there at some time. So enjoy your Scotch. 😉

Unfortunately it supports only Delphi 2010 and later. (Yes, I know, it's my own fault that I still use Delphi 2007, but that doesn't change the fact.)

TFormatSettings.ListSeparator is supposed to return the character the user has configured in the Windows configuration dialog: This works fine if it only contains a single character, which at least the possible selections for English (UK / US) and German (Germany) actually are: ';' and ','. But this dialog also allows to enter any string as the list separator, e.g. 'asdf' which will cause TFormatSettings.ListSeparator to return ','. The reason is that it gets filled calling GetLocaleInfo with a buffer size of 2 (in Chars) which will return 0 because the buffer is too small: function GetLocaleChar(Locale, LocaleType: Integer; Default: Char): Char; var Buffer: array[0..1] of Char; begin if GetLocaleInfo(Locale, LocaleType, Buffer, 2) > 0 then Result := Buffer[0] else Result := Default; end; This will then set Result to the Default parameter (which is ','). Is this a bug or a documented feature? I couldn't find any documentation on it. If it's a bug, of course the question is, what should it do instead? Since TFormatSettings.ListSeparator is a Char, it cannot return more than one characters. Are there any locales where a list separator with more than one character is commonly used? E.g. Chinese ? (I always suspect the Chinese to do something unexpected. 😉 )

Nobody seems to have mentioned watches yet. If you want to keep a eye on a value at various places, a watch is the way to go.

Actually Delphi has WriteLn which does exactly what Python's print does (for simple types, no idea whether Python's print can handle complex types) Unfortuntately WriteLn writes to the console which usually doesn't exist in GUI programs so it will result in an exception.

As far as I remember these popularity curves are percentages of all programmers, so if the total number of programmers rises and the number of programmers that use <language> stays constant, the popularity curve for <language> falls.

Do Delphi inline variable declarations actually work by now? I remember various bug reports on them and decided not to use them until that code is stable. And then I forgot about them...

I think that window uses TVirtualTreeview which would make it nearly impossible to read it's content and modify it with a plugin, unless there is an OTAPI interface for it. But this is guesswork, I haven't really checked either.

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