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Darian Miller
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Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 Results
Darian Miller replied to Uwe Raabe's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Out of 71,000 responses Delphi had 162 people say they wanted to try Delphi in this next year. Cobol had 263. What's your point? Does it really matter if we're statistically tied for last with Cobol? -
Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2022 Results
Darian Miller replied to Uwe Raabe's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Ouch....Delphi in last place for "WANT" to learn language even after Cobol. 71,467 responses % of developers who are not developing with the language or technology but have expressed interest in developing with it -
problem upgrading to Delphi 11.1 Patch 1
Darian Miller replied to Dave Novo's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
How are you handling per-user licensing? -
Sometimes all it takes is to walk away from the problem for a short while.
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2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Darian Miller posted a topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Now includes Delphi / RAD Studio options. I encourage you to take the survey! https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/make-your-voice-heard-2022-stack-overflow-developer-survey-includes-delphi -
2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
It seems to still be available, until end of day. I'd suggest trying a different browser - we need your vote. 🙂 -
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2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
Just a quick reminder to take the Developer Survey as it closes on June 1 https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/05/11/stack-overflow-2022-developer-survey-is-open/ -
Delphi 11.1 - a month later
Darian Miller replied to Mike Torrettinni's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
I agree with most of your observations and 11.1 is a lot better in may ways - but for me, ctrl-click is failing most of the time and some of the automatic code completion gets in the way more. I've increased the delay and rely on it less. It seems almost what 10.4 should have been. -
New Delphi job opportunity
Darian Miller replied to Berocoder's topic in Job Opportunities / Coder for Hire
Often times, the currently employed Delphi developers have been on the job for a number of years and are making decent money. The managers that are attempting to hire replacement Delphi developers seem to offer way too low of starting salaries to get the experienced developers to change positions so it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy that they can't hire Delphi developers. For example, I just saw a job ad in the U.S. for Delphi developers that is offering $60-80k to start. I doubt they will even get a single resume. If they do, it will be from overseas with little or no Delphi knowledge. -
Every now and then I run into the task of parsing HTML. I've used MSHTML and while it works, it always seems a bit kludgy to work with. Is there an alternative that you use and could recommend? (Usually simple tasks - like give me all the anchors listed in a UL within a particular DIV.)
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HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
About as far as I got on that tool is forking it and translating all of the Chinese strings/comments into English using Google Translate https://github.com/radprogrammer/htmlparser -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Thanks, I'll probably have time to try it again this weekend. -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
<body><div id="1"><h2 id="h1"> text1 <ul><a href="a1">First</a><a href="a2">Second</a></ul></div><div><h2 id="h2"> text2 <ul><a href="a3:>Third</a></ul></div></body> I could not get chaining to work. On a basic example, I'd want a list of anchors for h1 and another list of anchors for h2 within a much more complex source. I tried retrieving the header by id and searching for anchors under and I didn't get any results. After a short time, I switched to another suggested solution (htmlparser) but ended up moving on to something else. -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Note: the example code you provided fails as a canvas was not specified. -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Feature requests - allow parser usage without specifying a canvas. Also allow XPath from a particular node or chain multiple XPath statements together...currently having trouble filtering an already filtered input. In some sample HTML docs, there are Header elements that separate nearly identical lists of values with a handful of items before/after the lists. The headers have IDs so I'd like to select the list after the header. Perhaps it's because an XPath noob but it seems easiest to simply iterate all elements and find the header I'm interested in and grab data until the next header shows up in a state machine. -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Wow, thanks for the code sample too. I have some more code you can write for me. 🙂 Does canvas choice matter in this case when just parsing? Seems like a canvas is required. (I added htcanvasgdi to uses clause.) -
HTML Parser alternative to MSHTML?
Darian Miller replied to Darian Miller's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Ah yes... I have only used that as a cool editor, but I'll check it out. Not sure why I didn't find "DelphiHTMLComponents.com", especially since I've been a paying customer for quite a while! LOL. Somedays are diamonds, some days are stones... My wife says I have "CRS" syndrome. (Can't Remember 'Stuff') -
Delphi 11.1 Crash on Search Menu Access
Darian Miller replied to MathewV's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
It happened with a project that I have worked on nearly daily since the release of 11.1 (so not an one time initialization type event.) -
FWIW, this is a batch file I use for forcibly refreshing the icon cache without rebooting taskkill /f /im explorer.exe cd /d %userprofile%\AppData\Local del IconCache.db /a start explorer.exe
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Delphi 11.1 Crash on Search Menu Access
Darian Miller replied to MathewV's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
It happened to me for the first time this weekend. I could not replicate the issue. I believe I did have some text highlighted in the editor as I was copying to paste into the search form. -
Delphi on Windows 11 on MacBook Pro 16 (2021)
Darian Miller replied to Lars Fosdal's topic in Cross-platform
If you upgrade to 12.3 Monterey and use RAD Studio 11.1 - be aware that PA Server has a dependency on Python that is no longer present in 12.3. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-37609 -
TThread Resume Suspend deprecated (Not synchronization)
Darian Miller replied to Clément's topic in RTL and Delphi Object Pascal
There is nothing wrong with creating a suspended thread and then activating it later. That's a little different than calling Suspend on an active thread which needs much more care. -
Delphi 11.1 is available
Darian Miller replied to Uwe Raabe's topic in Tips / Blogs / Tutorials / Videos
There is a problem in saving the setting. Make the change to one Theme and hit save seems to work. Making multiple changes doesn't always save. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-37602 -
Update from Marco on Twitter