Scott Hollows

Im calling it … DelphiFeeds is dead

4 months later and still nothing.
Step away from the patient. Im calling it. Time of death April 2018

DelphiFeeds its still running, but no new feeds in 20 months.
Its moving, but no pulse. DelphiFeeds is a zombie

DelphiFeeds_Is_Dead

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My post from December 2017

What is going on at DelphiFeeds ?

It hasnt added any new web sites or blogs for at least 16 months and they dont reply to email. Maybe dead is too strong a word … but it is running on cruise control and has not been updated with new Delphi news, blog and tips sites.

Convert Delphi VCL window handle (HWND) To String

Simple example of converting a window handle (HWND data type) to a string in a Delphi VCL program

cardinal(vMyWindowHandle).ToString

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Is DelphiFeeds dead ?

What is going on at DelphiFeeds ?

UPDATE – April-201 – 4 months later and still nothing.
Step away from the patient. Im calling it. Time of death April 2018

Its still running, but no updates so its dead but still moving

DelphiFeeds is a zombie

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Disable Delphi TTimer during the OnTimer event

When writing a Delphi TTimer event, I often disable the timer and re-enable it at the end of the event.

If you dont do this, the OnTimer event could fire again before you have finished processing it.

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Increase / decrease the Delphi IDE font

Download my free software to add hotkeys to the Delphi IDE to increase and decrease the font size in the code editor. Handy for doing presentations

Other ways to change the font size

The Delphi IDE provides hot keys to do this (Ctrl Numpad + to increase and Ctrl Numpad – to decrease) but that only works with a numeric keypad. It doesnt work on most laptops that do not have a full numeric keypad so my software uses different hot keys Shift Ctrl Alt [ and Shift Ctrl ]
You can also change the font size using IDE options.
Menu -> Tools -> Options -> Editor Options -> Display -> Editor Font Size

AutoHotKey

The software was written in AutoHotKey. I was going to write it in Delphi, but I couldnt find my global hot key units so I had a quick coding frenzy and wrote it in AutoHotKey instead.

You dont need to install AutoHotKey as I have provided a compiled version

Gotchas

Be careful not to press the [ and ] keys too quickly or it will get confused and act as if you pressed those keys by themselves and “[” will get inserted into your text. If I had a bigger brain and more time I would fix that.