DelphiDabbler's Blog

Just released  CodeSnip  v4.21.2, which is a minor bug fix release. Updating is strongly recommended but not essential. Full details of this release are discussed in detail over on the  CodeSnip blog . ⏬ Download the new release from the  v4.21.2 release page  on GitHub.

I was casting around looking for something new to write in Delphi 11 when it struck me that there hasn't been an easy way to view the SWAG archive since I took down the viewer from my website and, well, archived the archive! Now I can't imagine there's going to be much demand to view this rather ancient archive of Delphi & Turbo Pascal code, so I'm not spending too much time on this. So, here's v0.1.0 of SWAGView for your delight and delectation: SWAGView v0.1.0 running on Windows 11 👉 You can grab a copy from the program's  releases page . 👉 There's also some brief  online help  and a  web page . 👉 The source code is on GitHub in the  ddabapps/swagview  repo. ⚠️ Be aware that SWAGView doesn't come with a bundled copy of SWAG - you need to download that from the SWAG GitHub repo and then install it from within the program. Full instructions here .

It's the 1st of July, so it's time for another update to my System Information Unit. Once again TPJOSInfo has been updated to detect the various Windows 10 & 11 builds and revisions released during the previous month, June 2023. Grab this release from the project's GitHub  releases page .

Release 0.3.0 of the app formerly known as Unit2NS was released yesterday. Unit2NS is/was a little application that, given a unit name, finds all the unit scopes that contain a unit of that name. For example, on Delphi 11.3 Enterprise there's a unit named Json in the following unit scopes: Data.Bind FireDAC.Comp.BatchMove REST System The thing is, when I released v0.1.0, I'd referred to these unit scope names and " namespaces ". As a commenter pointed out, this was wrong. Said commenter was right that I was wrong. It was quite simple to change the text in the UI and docs, but  the trouble was that the "NS" in Unit2NS stood for "namespace", and it's been bugging me. So I decided to change the name, I could have turned round "NS" to "SN" (for scope name), but that seemed like a cop out, so I've gone the whole hog and changed the name to ... 🎺🎺🎺... DUSE: D elphi U nit S cope E xpander. Corny, maybe, but I tried lots of...

Yesterday I released gbg v0.2.0, followed a few hours later by v0.3.0. Busy day! v0.2.0 When I announced the first release of gbg  someone suggested an option to generate ASCII characters instead of random bytes. That's what I added in v0.2.0. There were two options that could be added to the command line: -a to generate printable ASCII characters with codes 32 to 126. -A  to generate all ASCII characters with codes 0 to 127. Here's the new commands being used with some sample output: v0.3.0 I like my command line programs to be able to display their version numbers, so I added the -V option to do just that. The Usage screen also got updated: Any More Suggestions? Any more requests? Either leave a comment on open an issue on GitHub. Downloads You can get the latest version from the GitHub releases page . I'd skip v0.2.0 and go straight to v0.3.0, but it's up to you.

As I mentioned in last November's post Version Information Manipulation DLL gets an update after 15 years!  this DLL is more than a little niche. That post described what the DLL does, so I'm not going into detail here. To get more info take a look at the user guide . So, after waiting 15 years to get to v1.1 it's taken just 7 months to jump to v2.0. In essence v2.0 just drops support for ANSI version information resources. That shouldn't be a problem these days, because ANSI version information is only required when reading 32 bit programs on Windows 9x or when processing 16 bit resource files. Still, if you do need ANSI support, you can go back to v1.x. 👉 Get v2.0.0 from GitHub . One of the DLL's demo programs

This new patch release of Version Information Editor fixes a couple of annoying bugs that affect macros and fields. It's worth an update because the bugs could easily affect you. See the change log for details. 👉  Get v2.15.1 from GitHub .