Author Archives: Francesca Gaillard

Reading Version Information from your EXE

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Francesca Gaillard

Very often, you have to check some information contained in the VERSIONINFO section of your application and most of the examples you can find on the InterWebz are doing it by using this WinAPI routine: GetFileVersionInfo.

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A little bit of zis, etc. #4

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Francesca Gaillard

It’s been almost a year… I’ve been pretty busy and I have had some posts in the works for a long time that still needed some attention. I’ve decided it was time to clean the closet and get them out … Continue reading →

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Embedding and playing Sound/Music in a Delphi Application

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Francesca Gaillard

Or The new old stuff… We had to make the application play specific sounds as a status indicator that doesn’t require the user to look at the screen. To avoid external dependencies, the idea is to embed some WAV files … Continue reading →

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A little bit of zis, etc. #3

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

Back from the DelphiLive conference… A big thank you to Frank and Michael who made this a very nice event. There was a lot of excitement about the new XE2, from the attendees to the speakers to the Delphi team. … Continue reading →

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A little bit of zis, etc. #2

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

I know, I’ve been not very much of a blogger lately… Delphi XE2 is announced and it surely looks like a very interesting release (and probably with some nasty bugs as well, we’ll see)… I take the bet it will … Continue reading →

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The Unfortunate Effect of WM_SETREDRAW

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

… or why simply replacing LockWindowUpdate by WM_SETREDRAW is not that straightforward. As you know, when you want to avoid flickering or multiple partial redraws of your Forms, during a flurry of updates for instance, even though it is very … Continue reading →

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When The Debugger Leaks…

Posted on February 6, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

… you may end up chasing memory leaks that don’t exist. I was at work investigating some bizarre behavior of our application when dealing with a big customer file and I had ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown turned on as it was very likely … Continue reading →

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A little bit of zis, etc.

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

I haven’t blogged in quite a while… I have been busy at work and at home. And now I’m with the family for an extended week-end in the mountains. So, this post will be more like a pot-pourri of little … Continue reading →

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French Delphi Speech Session Downloadable

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

The zip of my CodeWay 4 session (in French) is now available for download here. FYI, the old CodeRage 4 session (in English) is also available from Embarcadero: “Speech Enabling Delphi Applications (zip)”

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FieldByName, FindField: too convenient to be honest

Posted on November 28, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

I don’t know about you, but I can’t count anymore the number of times I’ve seen this code pattern (in code snippets online as well as in production code): while not ADataSet.Eof do begin […] ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName1’).SomePropertyOrMethod; ADataSet.FieldByName(‘MyFieldName2’).SomePropertyOrMethod; […] ADataSet.Next; end; … Continue reading →

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