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PeterPanettone
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IMO, SVG Magic is a fantastic component which potentially creates a new paradigm for user interfaces. Look at this COMPILED demo where I show some of its capabilities which can be used in a toolbar UI (try the trackbar, for example): Freely_Scale_Toolbar_Controls_With_SVG_v2.zip Here you can check the exe: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/553141624ae35f3d6215730bb6e16301301903b91609ee0d90cfbc69148ecb37
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Marking of the main form in a multiform VCL Application
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
OK, so now we know that it has no use for Schokohase. I think that I have no use for Schokohase's opinion. -
Marking of the main form in a multiform VCL Application
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
Of course, I too use a naming which makes these things clear. But it's also clear that often (or sometimes) we get projects where the naming is not so clear, so I would wish to have a REDUNDANT indication of these things. BTW, REDUNDANCY is an important concept when creating user interfaces. Imagine you live near a nuclear reactor where it's user-interface isn't particularly redundant... (maybe created by a chocolate lover...) -
I have filed a bug report here: https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/bugs/128/ The bug report has also the WinWord document file attached with which the bug can be reproduced.
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I have analyzed what GExperts exports as HTML clipboard format: Version:0.9 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000002128 StartFragment:0000001413 EndFragment:0000002112 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Fragment of MainForm.pas</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> <meta name="generator" content="SynEdit HTML exporter" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { color: #000000; background-color: #FFFFFF; } .pas1-assembler { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; } .pas1-character { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #0000FF; } .pas1-comment { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #008000; font-style: italic; } .pas1-float { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #0000FF; } .pas1-hexadecimal { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #0000FF; } .pas1-identifier { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; } .pas1-number { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #0000FF; } .pas1-preprocessor { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #008000; font-style: italic; } .pas1-reservedword { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000080; font-weight: bold; } .pas1-space { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; } .pas1-string { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #0000FF; } .pas1-symbol { background-color: #FFFFFF; color: #000000; } --> </style> </head> <body> <!--StartFragment--><pre><code><span class="pas1-reservedword">function</span><span class="pas1-space"> PAIsWindowMinimized(h: HWND): Boolean; </span><span class="pas1-comment">// Detects whether a window is minimized or not </span><span class="pas1-reservedword">var </span><span class="pas1-space"> wp: Winapi.Windows.WINDOWPLACEMENT; </span><span class="pas1-reservedword">begin </span><span class="pas1-space"> wp.length := SizeOf(Winapi.Windows.WINDOWPLACEMENT); Winapi.Windows.GetWindowPlacement(h, @wp); Result := wp.showCmd = Winapi.Windows.SW_SHOWMINIMIZED; </span><span class="pas1-reservedword">end</span><span class="pas1-symbol">; </span></code></pre><!--EndFragment--></body> </html>* This is what CnWizards exports as HTML format: Version:1.0 StartHTML:000000176 EndHTML:000003298 StartFragment:000001389 EndFragment:000003263 StartSelection:000001389 EndSelection:000003263 SourceURL:http://www.cnpack.org/ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title></title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=gb2312"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="CnPack Source2Html Wizard (http://www.cnpack.org)"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #000000 } .u0 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #000000 } .u1 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic;color: #008000 } .u2 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #0000FF } .u3 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #008080 } .u4 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #000000 } .u5 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;color: #000080 } .u6 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #FF0000 } .u7 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #000000 } .u8 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #0000FF } .u9 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #000000 } .u10 { font-family: "Courier New"; font-size: 11pt;color: #0000FF } --> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <!--StartFragment--><span class="u5">function</span> <span class="u4">PAIsWindowMinimized</span><span class="u9">(</span><span class="u4">h</span><span class="u9">:</span> <span class="u4">HWND</span><span class="u9">):</span> <span class="u4">Boolean</span><span class="u9">;</span> <br><span class="u9"></span><span class="u1">// Detects whether a window is minimized or not</span> <br><span class="u5">var</span> <br> <span class="u4">wp</span><span class="u9">:</span> <span class="u4">Winapi</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">Windows</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">WINDOWPLACEMENT</span><span class="u9">;</span> <br><span class="u5">begin</span> <br> <span class="u4">wp</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">length</span> <span class="u9">:=</span> <span class="u4">SizeOf</span><span class="u9">(</span><span class="u4">Winapi</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">Windows</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">WINDOWPLACEMENT</span><span class="u9">);</span> <br> <span class="u4">Winapi</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">Windows</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">GetWindowPlacement</span><span class="u9">(</span><span class="u4">h</span><span class="u9">,</span> <span class="u9">@</span><span class="u4">wp</span><span class="u9">);</span> <br> <span class="u4">Result</span> <span class="u9">:=</span> <span class="u4">wp</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">showCmd</span> <span class="u9">=</span> <span class="u4">Winapi</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">Windows</span><span class="u9">.</span><span class="u4">SW_SHOWMINIMIZED</span><span class="u9">;</span> <br><span class="u5">end</span><span class="u9">;</span> <!--EndFragment--></body> </html> * BTW, the fragment exported by CNWizards does not create the squares in the faulty WinWord document.
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I've tried it now with a fresh new WinWord document where I pasted the clipboard content. No squares there. Then I retried it with the document where the squares have appeared yesterday. The squares appeared again. So I have to conclude that the problem appears only in a specific WinWord document. I could not find out why.
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IDE Command Line Switch for NOT auto-loading the previous project
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi IDE and APIs
Thank you! It works. I wonder whether the documentation is intentionally misleading there. -
When I create a new VCL Application from scratch in the Delphi 10.3.1 IDE with File -> New -> Windows VCL Application then everything including CODE INSIGHT works well. This newly created VCL Application project has the "Use MSBuild externally to compile" project option set to FALSE as default: But when I set the "Use MSBuild externally to compile" project option manually to TRUE: ...(and then rebuild the project) then CODE INSIGHT does not work anymore: This affects the Code Insight popup menu which normally is invoked after typing a DOT: ...and so the Code Insight popup menu does not show up anymore! Question: Is this a BUG in the IDE?
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Yes. What are the squares doing there?
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No, I often get projects where this option is set to True.
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I also always try to avoid Πρόωρη εκσπερμάτωση.
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That would be like Christmas, Easter and birthday together.
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Add a system-menu item to all applications?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Windows API
Until now I achieved what I wanted to achieve by intercepting the right-button-mouse-click on the title-bar of any application window. But now I have a system program which also does exactly that, so it overrides my action. -
New GExperts IDE enhancement: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu
PeterPanettone replied to dummzeuch's topic in GExperts
Thank's for the clarification. I sometimes feel the smell of Atari in the Delphi IDE, or am I wrong? -
New GExperts IDE enhancement: Export and Import entries for the Tools menu
PeterPanettone replied to dummzeuch's topic in GExperts
Very good idea! Is it possible to export/import all Tools entries at once or only one by one? -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone posted a topic in Delphi Third-Party
I am using the CnWizards version of "Intellisense" (code-completion) as it has several advantages with respect to the native Delphi code-completion (see the screenshot). However, both code-completion popups lack the ability to show whether a selected property is published or public: Or is there a distinction which I do not see? -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
And please note that the SUBJECT of this conversation is "...code-completion popup..." -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Come on, we don't live at Atari times anymore. -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
I often write in uppercase without having the intention to shout. -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Nobody is shouting. We talk about source code documentation here. -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
However, the CnWizards Code Input Helper seems to have options to show source code documentation: But I don't see any source code documentation in the CnWizards Code Input Helper, although there IS documentation in the source code where I am testing this. -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Where did you get this? Marco Cantù answered at the Quality Portal: "RAD Studio IDE offers Help Insight, which can grab XMLDoc documentation from the source and displays is alongside in a very similar way. The limitation is we don't have large coverage in terms of XMLDoc." Stefan, maybe you confuse something here. We are talking about SOURCE CODE DOCUMENTATION. -
Show public/published distinction in code-completion popup?
PeterPanettone replied to PeterPanettone's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Also, look at how other IDEs show the documentation in the code completion popup: Why the Delphi code completion popup does not show the documentation in the code completion popup? Is there a Delphi IDE add-in which displays the documentation in the code completion popup like in the above screenshot? -
What's the state of JCL/JVCL?
PeterPanettone replied to Stefan Glienke's topic in Delphi Third-Party
Embarcadero should hire them and pay them a decent salary! Embarcadero should also hire a few dozens of first-class Delphi developers and maintain the major open source Delphi libraries! What is Embarcadero doing with the many billions of $$$ they get from Delphi licenses? -
I have added this feature request in GExperts: https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/feature-requests/65/ This OPTION would add a lot of useful flexibility to directory Search in Grep Search: If Grep Search finds a shortcut link (*.lnk) of a directory in the search directory (e.g. pointing to D:\MyProject) then Grep Search additionally searches in directory: D:\MyProject If Grep Search finds a shortcut link of a file in the search directory (e.g. pointing to F:\MyRoutines.pas) then Grep Search additionally searches in the file: F:\MyRoutines.pas This would allow me to create a directory full of shortcut links pointing to preferred source code directories and favorite source code files to concentrate the grep search on specific content. This would be very useful! What do you people think?