I tire of hearing it. Who uses Delphi? Isn't it old? It's niche? Can I get a job in it? Around 20 years or so of hearing the same ill-considered non-sense perpetuated. It's time to set the record straight, and to be honest too. There's…
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The U.S. government recently made an appeal to the software development industry, to stop using C and C++, and to favor “Memory Safe” languages instead. Object Pascal is recognized by the NSA as a memory safe language, however, there does seem to be some misunderstanding…
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I’m a fan of interface driven development in Delphi, and I am not quiet about that. Like any syntax feature however, it’s important to understand both the benefits, and the costs of the feature. Interfaces have several great benefits, but of course they also come…
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In this video, I demonstrate a technique for communicating between threads in a Delphi application, without using typical locking mechanisms such as critical sections. I create essentially a ring-buffer based signaling system ( a message pipe ) for sending messages from one thread to another,…
Continue reading...Over the years, I don't think I can count the number of times that I've wanted to send window messages to some other application. It can be useful for automating the target application, or even as a primitive form of Inter-process communication. Each time, I…
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