Issam's Blog - About Delphi Programming

I've released AppManifest for Delphi2006, even it's not difficult to add a new customisable manifest to Delphi2006 projects, but some folks see that AppManifest can make life easy in Delphi2006 too
remember: to let AppManifest works well, don't use XpManifest and AppManifest in the same project.

Regards

In Delphi2007 and Delphi2009 it's a little bit difficult if you want to change the embedded manifest in the Delphi projects, let us say for example if you want to change the Vista UAC options to set the "requestedExecutionLevel" to "requireAdministrator", even there are some workarounds, but these workarounds have "side effects" and need extra work from developers, while in other development environments like Visual Studio this task is quite easy, and you can add manifests to projects like any other items, Now this new Delphi Add-In AppManifest will make this task easy in Delphi as well,

لكل الذين اختاروا دلفي لتكون من بين أدوات تطويرهم، الخبر السار الذي طال انتظاره ... ربما. مجتمع دلفي يثبت من جديد قدرته على التجدد و ابتداع الحلول: دعم تعدد المنصات قريبا عن طريق إضافة جديدة Plugin الاطلاق الرسمي لها متوقع أن يكون هذا الاسبوع. الدعم في البداية سيكون مقتصراً على منصة الـ MAC ثم ستتبعها الـ Linux وصولاً إلى 64 bit Windows و Windows Mobile
للمزيد عن هذا الخبر المفرح

in QC may be you can find many reports about Delphi resource files bugs and enhancing requests, and some of them may be about using $R directive in "wrong places", even there are no mention about such "wrong places" in the documentation. this bug QC#72574 also about using $R directive in "wrong place", or let me say "wrong way", even it has some kind of "fun side".

I've released IBrowser version 1.1, new features in this version:
. Support overlay icons.
. Support multi file-masks filters, semi-colon delimited.
. Predefined filters.
. Lock/unlock tracking editor.

Do you know Louay kayali? He is one of my favorite plastic artists, his style is simple, warm, and meaningful. his paintings reflex the simple and poor Arabic life, these are my favorite paintings:

In front of the coffee shop

I read a comment on Andreas Hausladen blog asking for help with TDBNavigator bug QC52439 , I think everybody knows the great efforts that Andress gives to the Delphi community, so i decided to give Andress a hand on this and here is my workaround about this bug:
note: this bug exists in Delphi2007 and Delphi2009
1- open  "Buttons" unit.
2- in the TSpeedButton class  locate these lines in the Paint Procedure

At last I can smell it's wonderful feeling after a week of struggling with Flu, it was a rough "fight" but the Delphi Developer wins at last, and the cost:
- a lot of medicines -actually there are many empty medicine boxes on my table now- "TUSSI GRIP" is one of them and it did a great job, I recommend it.
- a lot of lemons, it really helps and I recommend it either.
- a lot of handkerchiefs ... yeah believe me it's a lot
- one week delay on business; well that's not good. I have to work harder in the next days.

عنصر TThemedDBGrid هو عنصر مفيد جداً حيث يقوم بتغيير مظهر TDBGrid ليتلائم مع مظهر الويندوز xp أو الفيستا الأنيق، و هو عنصر مجاني و مصدر مفتوح من قبل المبرمج Andreas Hausladen حيث هي عبارة عن وحدة جديدة تقوم بإضافتها إلى المشروع و هي ستقوم بتعديل مظهر جميع عناصر الـ TDBGrid الموجودة في المشروع أثناء تشغيل البرنامج، النسخة الموجودة كانت تحوي مشكلة عند تغيير الاتجاه ليصبح من اليمين لليسار أي عند تغيير الـ BiDiMode ليصبح bdRightToLeft كما في الصورة

I am still using Delphi2006 for my database projects, but two days ago I’ve started a small Database App in Delphi2009, and it was a shock when I discovered that there is an obvious bug in TDBGrid  in Delphi2009, Delphi2009 Update1 and Delphi2007, this bug will be “visible” if you change the BiDiMode property of TDBGrid to  bdRightToLeft.