Tag Archives: Delphi

Treeview and storage

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Arthur

I‘ve not written a while about programming, let alone anything about that mailing program, RoundAbout. Today’s subject is the Windows TreeView control and its data section, the TreeNodes. As you probably know, a TreeView shows data in an hierarchical way, … Continue reading →

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Yo, autocomplete.

Posted on October 9, 2011 by Arthur

One of my biggest pet peeves is ‘AutoComplete’: the functionality of a text box to suggest (and complete) previously entered data. I’ve seen many bad implementations and the one fresh out of memory I can remember is Opera’s URL box, … Continue reading →

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The State of the Machine

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Arthur

I get cranky when I see people use regular expressions or simple substring routines when extracting strings from, for example, e-mail addresses. The first method, while powerful, is memory hungry, the second method is plain childish. You should only use … Continue reading →

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Find, you

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Arthur

Last weekend, I decided to pick up my Delphi compiler and work a bit on Fandro: in real life, I found out that I wanted to be able to launch Fandro from Explorer’s context-sensitive menu and henceforth, I worked on … Continue reading →

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Ice, Ice, Maybe

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Arthur

Everytime a Wix script (Windows Installer XML) fails to compile, it logs ICE errors. For some kind of reason, whenever these errors or warnings pop up, I keep humming the tune of Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby” (Youtube, if you’re … Continue reading →

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Click. Clack.

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Arthur

Some stuff I ran into earlier. I read that Windows 7 (Microsoft much-touted successor of Windows Vista) is positioned as the ‘Linux Killer’ (original article at Computer World). From that article: The threat to Windows comes entirely from “netbooks” — … Continue reading →

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Barba-what?

Posted on November 25, 2008 by Arthur

Staying on the programming topic: One of the best parts of Roundabout (previously) was the filtering mechanism: before mail was downloaded, the user could (if needed) invoke the Filter dialog box and mark which mails were going to be downloaded … Continue reading →

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Retro-Code

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Arthur

I was looking for older code through some older projects and I ended up looking at the code of RoundAbout, a Delphi project I headed with a German (Roland), an American (Marcos) and plenty of other contributors. I thought, I … Continue reading →

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Speed

Posted on July 5, 2008 by Arthur

I thought Mark’s posting about the new Adobe Acrobat 9 was the hilarious. If you’re into more snark, try the Adobe Acrobat 9 installation guide as done by the MicroPledge site. After the unpacking, the install process itself took 10 … Continue reading →

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Multi-meh

Posted on June 12, 2007 by Arthur

Meh: Earlier I found out OWL is a web ontology language and that it has nothing to do with the OWL that was wrapped in a box of Borland compilers (Wikipedia on Object Windows Library). Alfons should know more about … Continue reading →

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Owner-draw

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

One point with which I want to close off for today: Ownerdraw stuff in C#. Yesterday, I was comparing code to create owner-draw listboxes and comboboxes in both Delphi and C# and noticed how remarkably easy it’s to switch from … Continue reading →

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Code and gear

Posted on February 21, 2007 by Arthur

Yesterday, I received an e-mail from CodeGear that the new Delphi platform has been released (or here for fancy images). A bit expensive and I fear for the future of the Delphi environment: notice how the environment now closely seems … Continue reading →

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Owner draw

Posted on July 14, 2004 by Arthur

While doing some ownerdraw stuff in regular Windows stuff (stuff is my favourite word, as you can see), I noticed something weird: I was forced to ‘refresh’ regions by code, instead of relying on the tools of the specific programming … Continue reading →

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