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Chee Wee's discoveries and tech blog

Stuff I did while in Borland / CodeGear...

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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Some of the most interesting stuff I did while I was in Borland and CodeGear included: Writing a MSI wrapper for InterBase that eventually brought in a...
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Debugging a component editor in Delphi

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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If you read Borland's documentation on how to debug components, you'll notice that there is no documentation on how to debug a component editor. Here's...
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Debugging a child process in the Delphi IDE

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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General guidelines to debugging a child process in the Delphi IDE. Written for Dave Nottage and other forgetful people :-) [10:50] Dave: ..and I want to...
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Undocumented Delphi 8 Project Settings Persistence File

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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There's an undocumented Delphi 8 Project Settings Persistence File. It's known as DefProject.bdsproj. It's located in Documents and Settings\<User Name>...
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Writing to the SD card on Android

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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After upgrading to the Android SDK 1.6, and upgrading my Android phone to Android 1.6, I was puzzled why my SMS Backup application stopped working, as...
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Getting the hash for a generic type

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Imagine when you have a generic type, such as the following class, and you need to get the hash for K, so that it can be mapped to V. TMapEntry<K, V>...
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CaliberRM Training

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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As some of my friends may know, I've been away from my desk at Borland Singapore recently. I was sent to the CaliberRM Training at Borland Atlanta...
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Undocumented Delphi 8 compiler directive AUTOBOX

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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The Delphi 8 compiler introduces the AUTOBOX directive. In the spirit of the Delphi Language Guide, I have presented information for the AUTOBOX directive...
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Security breach released salary and confidential data

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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Recently, I discovered that the recruitment agency working for one of the companies I used to worked for had a security breach. And as such, the salary...
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Anyone interested in a C#, Delphi User Group in Singapore?

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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I am looking into organizing C#, Delphi, and other language user groups in Singapore. How many people out there are interested in joining? To indicate...
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An idea on unifying counselling and technical support...

Posted over 15 years ago

by chuacw
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An idea has been germinating in my mind on how counselling and technical support can be unified and married up. Will probably write up further on this...
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Good and bad days

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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There are good days, and there are bad days. When the days are good, I can get lots of things done. I can come out with a great idea, I can write programs...
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How to enable Sync Edit Params?

Posted over 17 years ago

by chuacw
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To enable Sync Edit Params, simply go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Borland\BDS\4.0\Code Insight and create a new string value with the name Sync Edit...
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Movie Reviews CMS database schema

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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Definition for AuditTrail Column Type Description AuditID int Table index Action varchar(50) A string containing the type of action the user has taken...
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Console prototype for SongFinder completed...

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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I completed the console prototype for the SongFinder during the previous hour. Total time spent: 3.5 hours (including the 2.5 hours here ). Now, I have...
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Determining if a property is inherited...

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Given two classes, Class1 and Class2, where Class2 is inherited from Class1, and a property Prop1, reading the DeclaringType of the PropertyInfo for Prop1...
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Changing colours on Nexus One trackball

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Turning on the trackball cd /sys/class/leds/jogball-backlight echo 7 > brightness echo 5 > period echo 255 0 255 > color Turning off the trackball...
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A nice regex for URLs...

Posted over 14 years ago

by chuacw
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Here's a nice regular expression to use for capturing URLs: ((https?|ftp|gopher|telnet|file|notes|ms-help):((//)|(\\\\))+[\w\d:#@%/;$()~_?\+-=\\\.&...
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Next Singapore Delphi User Group meeting

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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The next Singapore Delphi User Group meeting is tentatively planned on 24-27 May. This will coincide with a planned conference on that date. Whether you...
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Undocumented implementation details of sets and enumerations Part 1

Posted over 20 years ago

by chuacw
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Sets and enumerations have been in Delphi since the beginning of Delphi. Here's an example program. The example program gives the exact output in both...
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A testament on the strength of Delphi

Posted over 19 years ago

by chuacw
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A newsgroup posting demonstrates that Delphi can be used to keep large companies honest. From: Scout < Toothpaste@farts.com > Subject: Should I be...
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Adventures in translating Java to Delphi.NET: Part 2

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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Continuing from my Adventures in translating Java to Delphi.NET: Part 1 article... In translating Java to Delphi.NET, one of the weirder things I came...
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Stuff to remember on developing Android apps

Posted over 11 years ago

by chuacw
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findViewById works only after setContentView has been called on the layout containing the View that needs to be found. It's possible to remove the...
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Task Switch on the Android

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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To show a lists of running tasks, press and hold the home key. To switch to one of the tasks, just tap your finger on one of the task icons.
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Drag and drop for TListView

Posted over 16 years ago

by chuacw
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In the OnDragDrop event of a TListView, the source item and the destination item can be obtained thus: procedure TFormX.ListView1DragDrop(Sender, Source...