I am getting a cascading set of "EClassNotFound" errors in in my Delphi 2007 project. Doesn't seem to be caused by the missing Name property value as often is the case, and though adding RegisterClass(XXX) in the initialization section(s) fixes the EClassNotFound error at hand, another one follows it seemingly indefinitely. I finally c...
I've got a number of Delphi forms where we use a couple of special characters - the 'degree' symbol, and the 'ohms' symbol. These characters are used in label captions saved in the DFM file and are not generated or modified at runtime. Back along when we first designed these forms the degree symbol was easy because it is in the Ansi char...
Our Delphi 7 development team stores form files (dfm) in text mode, and uses a source control system (Subversion) to track changes. Sometimes, we noticed that a form file returned to binary format between revisions, causing diff tools like TortoiseMerge to complain. Using the Subversion change log, I can see that the DFM file was store...
I have a structured file with hierarchical text which describes a GUI in Delphi (a DFM-File). Let's assume I have this file and I have to match all "Color = xxx" Lines, which are in the context of TmyButton (marked), but not those in other context. Within the TMyButton-Context there won't be a deeper hierarchical level. object frmMain:...
Is it possible to edit a DFM (Delphi's form script format) in such a way that a form closes itself when shown? I don't code in Delphi, so I'm not familiar with how these forms work, but it seems I could put code (but not standard Delphi code as it seems) in the OnShow or OnCreate events of the form. However, after trying several stateme...
We've noticed that when checking in updates that our .DFM files have had ExplicitWidth and ExplicitHeight properties added for what appears to be no particular reason. My two questions are, what are they for and why do they get automatically added by Delphi? Below is an example with the property in: object Splitter2: TcxSplitter ...
For documentation and further inspection, I would like to run an 'extract strings' on all DFM files in many projects to find all SQL statements. Are there command line tools which can do this? The DFM files are all in text format. ...
Hi! We used Delphi 6 long times ago. Our problem, that Delphi have two problems with DFMs: 1.) When some linked resource (like DataSet) will removed, Delphi many times forget to ask you that "some of the resources are linked, you need to redirect...". This happens, when the actual form is not added to the project, or it is not opened. ...
Tool: Delphi 6 Pro I created a new component in my main components package that is a descendant of TFrame using the Component -> New Component option. When I try to draw the component on a form during design time I get a "Resource {component class name} not found" error. I tried adding the line {$R *.dfm} to the component unit just af...
Hello StackOverflow, I'm new to delphi and I'm looking up on ways to learn more about delphi underlying technology plus make something useful here in my job in the process, also if anyone has any tip or see anyway i can improve my idea please fell free to speak your mind... i want to do make some kind of Scaffolding for dfms, the ideia...