About the author
Years ago, I took Lutz Roeder's C# implementation of Digger and translated it into Delphi for Win32 and Delphi.NET at the same time, and designed a native editor (in Delphi for Win32) for editing it in the Delphi IDE as well. I can't remember if I designed a native editor for it in Delphi for .NET. After looking at the CodeCentral entry, it seems that I completed the Delphi for Win32 port in 2004 and the Delphi for .NET port in 2006. While C# generated code meant to run on .NET and Delphi generated code meant to run on Win32, the port I completed accounted for garbage collection on .NET and translated it into memory management in Win32.
Recently, I again translated it from Delphi for Win32 to Java, or, if you will, the Android platform, and in the process, learnt about how to do some anonymous coding, timer code, asynchronous messages, threading, graphics, overlaying graphics onto background graphics, and zooming on the Android platform.
A few months ago, I even completed a prototype of an Android version of a Song Finder (which I initially did on Delphi for Win32 a few months ago), which if released, will find any song you want on the Internet
Where am I going exactly with all these? Frankly, I don't know...
Continued discussion of undocumented Delphi 8 Property Access Specifiers, and other ways of adding and removing delegates / events handlers, including clearing the list of all the delegates / event handlers.
This article discusses the new Delphi 8 property access specifiers.
A method pointer is now the same as a global procedure, ie, procedure of object = procedure.