Category Archives: Miscellaneous

XER Tools 2.0b

By | January 26, 2020

Today, I’ve released an update to XER Tools which contains the following bug fixes and feature enhancements: Bug Fixes Fixed the themed rendering of the About dialogue; Fixed incorrect successor field information when exporting to Excel or copying to the clipboard; Fixed high CPU usage associated with highlighted records; Removed the raising of an Exception… Read More »

I accidentally deleted someone’s email

By | December 11, 2019

Apologies, but someone contacted me today or yesterday via my GMail account in answer to I think my last post. Unfortunately it when into GMail’s spam folder and in an attempt to mark it as Not Spam I’ve accidentally deleted it because I was not paying enough attention while trying to eat some food. If… Read More »

CodeSite and TCP/IP

By | September 29, 2019

There are some circumstances when debugging an application where the default dispatch mechanism for CodeSite does not work. The default mechanism is to use the WM_COPYDATA windows message. In my case this is an Excel COM add-in and the WM_COPYDATA doesn’t work so I had to switch to using TCP/IP. There are a number of… Read More »

Favourite Editor on the Explorer context menu

By | March 24, 2019

I’ve always wanted to put an editor of my choice on the Explorer context menu but never got around to looking up how to do this until now (its really easy). You can accomplish this with some simple registry additions but you will need to be an administrator to gain access to the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT area.… Read More »

Editor Views in RAD Studio

By | June 5, 2018

Overview Well, this was the blog I tried to write before Xmas before I found it didn’t quite work in all circumstances. So here I’ll describe how to create a custom editor view in RAD Studio along with editor status bar panels. These editor views are full editor tabs not sub-tabs like the sub-views I described before, therefore they are not… Read More »

The Trials and Tribulations of RegEx’ing and Other Stories…

By | March 4, 2017

RegEx’ing C++ So I thought I was on to something using expandable macros to create complex regular expressions. I managed to defined an expression that recognised C++ class definitions and match these throughout all my C++ code (I still had to write all the DUnit tests). So what am I talking about. In a previous… Read More »

WordFence

By | September 18, 2016

If there are any of you out there who run a WordPress blog and do not have WordFence installed (here’s free and paid versions), please go and install it now to ensure you website is well protected. I’ve had 3 separate attempts today to access my blog: 1 from the UK (disappointing), 1 from the… Read More »