DelphiDabbler's Blog

Update: The site is no longer closing! Some of the changes below may still happen, but the site itself is staying up. See this post for details. Keep an eye on this blog for updates. You may have noticed that I've not done any programming or updates to Delphidabbler.com for quite a long time. Neither have I been active here. I keep telling myself that I'll get round to maintaining and modernising the site, but the hard fact is I won't. So I'm announcing that delphidabbler.com will get few if any more updates and will close in one year. I've just renewed the web space for another year ... it will expire on 15 June 2020 and after that the site will be gone. I will try - no promises - to do one final release of CodeSnip that removes it's dependency on the web server. I will be retaining ownership of delphidabbler.com for at least a while longer because I'm dependent on it for email. The plan is to point it at my GitHub account and to move more stuf...

I've just deleted my DelphiDabbler and CodeSnip Google+ pages in advance of the pending closure of G+

What a long time between posts! Not a lot (i.e. nothing!) has happened on DelphiDabbler.com for well over a year now. Among other things that means that the Delphi Tips database hasn't been updated - and it won't be in future. So I've decided to deprecate it with the view of removing it from the site. To avoid losing all the data forever, I've 'printed' each tip to it's own PDF file and placed them in a Git repository on GitHub - see https://github.com/delphidabbler/delphi-tips . In addition to the tips from the site I've also added a couple of extra documents that contain numerous other tips. One has loads of tips from the former Delphi Pool website and the other contains tips published in the past by Topellina . If anyone wants to take over the database just fork the repo. If you want the original HTML include files and associated SQL database just open an issue on the GitHub repo and ask. Or leave a comment below. The great majority of the tips hav...

After a mere five and a half years in beta, I've finally got round to finishing off and releasing v2.0 of my PasHi Pascal Syntax Highlighter . This is a command line program that highlights Pascal source code and outputs CSS styled HTML code. I use it to highlight source code for my website. Version 2 is a massive update from version 1 - there are loads of new commands. This would turn into a very long post if I was to list everything the program does - there's a comprehensive user guide for anyone interested. For a list of changes from the last v1 release see the change log . There's a GUI front end that can control PasHi to save typing in lots of commands. That too is now out of beta. Here's a pic of the program after it's used PasHi to highlight some code using an emulation of Delphi's twilight style: PasHi lives on GitHub. You can grab the program and its source code from the GitHub release page .

Version 0.2.8 of the BDiff / BPatch Utilities has just been released. This version is mainly a recompilation with Delphi XE to enable support for Unicode file names and Unicode internal string processing. Zip files containing the executable files and source code are available from GitHub. You can also fork the project on GitHub if you wish.

Release v5.3.0 of the System Information Unit from the DelphiDabbler Code Library has been released. This release adds support for detecting Windows 10 "Version 1607", i.e. the Anniversary Update. It can also now detect Windows 2016 Server tech previews 1 to 5. Some other tweaks have been made: for a full list see the change log .

Release v2.2.1 of the Hot Label Component from the DelphiDabbler code library has been released. This new version fixes a memory leak introduced in v2.2.0. Users of that version are strongly recommended to update.