News for 2010
- New wiki documenting the Resource File Unit now available
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This new wiki that documents the Resource File Unit duplicates some of the information in the PDF user guide. The wiki will be updated and corrected more frequently than the user guide, which may eventually be withdrawn.permalink29 August 2010
- Release v2.3 of the Message Dialog Box Components
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This release adds a new property, DlgType, that has been requested by a user (issue #9). The property enables the dialog box type (icon, buttons, default title etc.) to be set using a subset of the same flags that are passed to the Windows MessageBox API function. The new property is rather complex and a read of the Message Dialog Components Wiki or help file is recommended before using it.28 August 2010
- New wiki documenting the Console Application Runner Classes now available
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This new wiki that documents the Console Application Runner Classes duplicates the information from the PDF user guide. It will be updated and corrected more frequently than the user guide, which may eventually be withdrawn.22 August 2010
- New wiki documenting the Message Dialog Components now available
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This new wiki that documents the Message Dialog Components duplicates the information from the help file. It is useful for those who don't have WinHelp installed (Vista and later by default) or who have Delphi 2005 and later which can't integrate the help file into the IDE.20 August 2010
- Release v2.2.1 of the Message Dialog Box Components
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With release 2.2.1 the Message Dialog Components at last compile and work correctly with Delphi 2009 and 2010 following prompting by a user.17 August 2010
- CodeSnip v3.6.3 released
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CodeSnip v3.6.3 has been released. The code that communicates with web services has been completely re-written to avoid some of the character encoding errors experienced in earlier versions. The "About The Program" tab of the About Box has also been updated and corrected.22 July 2010
- Released v0.2 beta of the MD5 Message Digest Unit
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This update to the MD5 Message Digest Unit changes the parameter type of the AnsiString overloads of the TPJMD5.Calculate and TPJMD5.Process methods from AnsiString to RawByteString. This change enables ANSI strings of any code page to be processed without conversion to the default code page.21 July 2010
- Released v1.0.2 of the Console Application Runner Classes
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This new version of the Console Application Runner Classes finally fixes a problem that was causing the code to fail when compiled against a Unicode Windows API, i.e. with Delphi 2009 or Delphi 2010. This was down to a "feature" of the Windows CreateProcessW API function. Thanks to the two users who pointed this out - you know who you are!20 July 2010
- CodeSnip v3.6.2 released
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CodeSnip v3.6.2 has been released. This release fixes a formatting bug in the code generator along with a potential bug in the code that parses the markup used for a snippet's extra information. Also fixed a memory leak.18 June 2010
- Component Help Installer mailing list now closed
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Now that Component Help Installer has been mothballed it seemed time to wind up the program's mailing list. This has now been done. A final newsletter has been sent and records of the subscribers have been deleted.12 June 2010
- New Arrays category added to Code Snippets Database with six new snippets
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The new "Arrays" category is a receptacle for any routines that manipulate or interogate arrays. The first six routines (AppendByteArray, ByteArraysEqual, ChopByteArray, CloneByteArray, ConcatByteArrays and SliceByteArray) all work with byte arrays (array of Byte or TBytes).11 June 2010
- Several snippets updated in the Code Snippets Database
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The IsValidURLProtocol routine was refactored, the IsNumeric and Pause routines were updated per suggestions by tester "Montor" and the Delay routine was changed to deal with potential roll-over situations with the GetTickCount API function.10 June 2010