Andreas @AndyHTech

Software Developer idefixpack.de Germany Joined February 2011

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Andreas @AndyHTech

a month ago

Wine 10.10 claimed that a 32bit #Delphi app was 16bit. After hunting down that issue(Wine source, WINEDEBUG=+all) I found a very old Delphi component pack that imported FreeLibrary16 from kernel32.dll via index 36. Wine redirects this to krnl386.exe16, in Windows=>wrong function

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 months ago

It took me almost 2h to realize that the newest Windows 11 update changes the color of the drive usage bar in Explorer. And I thought some program, I recently installed, was the culprit and I tried to get the lighter blue color (RGB 38,160,218) back. (New color: 0,112,203).

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Andreas @AndyHTech

6 months ago

AMD's Chipset Driver installer still requires you to have the "VBScript" feature installed, otherwise it tells you that you don't have an "AMD system" and fails. Maybe somebody should tell @AMD that Microsoft has deprecated VBScript and is going to remove it from Windows 11.

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Andreas @AndyHTech

8 months ago

A new bug fix release of IDE Fix Pack 6.5.1 (2009-10.3) is now available. This is especially for Delphi 2010 users. idefixpack.de/blog/2025/01/i…

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Andreas @AndyHTech

a year ago

Sometimes I really wonder what #Delphi "thinks" by generating such unnecessary push/pop code. mov eax,[ebp+$08] add eax,ebx push eax ?????? pop eax ?????? xor edx,edx div esi or ecx,eax

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Andreas @AndyHTech

a year ago

New IDE Fix Pack 6.5 release for #Delphi 2009-10.3 idefixpack.de/fixpack

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Andreas @AndyHTech

2 years ago

Eventually I found time to build the binary JCL and JVCL installers for #Delphi 11 Community Edition. Don't ask for Delphi 12, there is no Community Edition yet. idefixpack.de/blog/bugfix-un…

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

Netflix's web page in Edge with an active fTPM (AMD) is unusable. Chrome doesn't have that problem. (different DRM). I hope AMD's next BIOS update really containts a fix. (amd.com/de/support/kb/…)

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

Working in #FreePascal/Lazarus I have to constantly remind myself that "string" means "ShortString" and not "AnsiString/UnicodeString". {$mode objfpc}

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

Three developers had to analyze why the database became slow as he** during a planed performance test. In the end it turned out that the data center moved the VM (that was marked as a "performance test environment") to the slowest HDD storage server they had without telling us.

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

Maybe I should allocate some (not available) spare time to making major changes to the #IndyComponents and create PRs. But they would be enormous and reviewing them would cost probably days. #Delphi

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

When you wonder where your app hangs and it turns out that it is busy moving memory around in the Indy-InputBuffer. Why is it even 160 MB large. Oh the TcpClient.Connected method reads 32k every time you call it. Maybe it should try with 1 byte instead of a full RecvBufferSize.

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

#Delphi #IndyComponents can you please not copy my data around as if there is no tomorrow. Just send my data to the socket. TBytes was a bad idea. Unnecessary zero-init when overwriting it immediately, no pointer arithmetic to move the start resulting in copying TBytes everywhere

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Andreas @AndyHTech

4 years ago

I have created the JCL and JVCL binary installers for #Delphi 10.4 from the GitHub main branch. So if you can't use the regular source code installer, you can use those to install the JEDI libraries. idefixpack.de/jedi