Debug visualisers are a type of IDE plugin that allows you to changethe display of a variable in the various debug windows (Local Variables, Watches, Inspector, and Evaluate/Modify.) For example, the TDateTime visualiser takes the double value that represents time and instead displays that time converted to a string. You register a debug visualiser for a type, so all variables of that type…
Recently a security issue allowing allowing local code execution after visiting a malicious URL was identified in Subversion, git and Mercurial. All three source control systems released a synchronised security update.
In RAD Studio, we use an external installation of both…
In RAD Studio 10.2Release 1 (or 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements in the debugger.
Windows debugging: general quality
Do you debug multithreaded applications? You might have noticed that wait chain traversal, showing which threads were blocked on…
In Tokyo Release 1 (otherwise known as 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements toour C++ support: a small but useful change in the IDE, and some significant improvements in the toolchain itself.
Toolchain: compiler, linker, etc
Debugging and viewing variables, and general compiler
In 10.2.0, we made a lot of changes to the Clang compilers to improve evaluatingvariables…
CodeGuard is a tool for runtime error checking in a C++ application, and catches memory leaks, invalid handles, invalid memory use (such as writing past the end of a buffer), pointer validation, accessing freed memory and resources, and more. If you’ve never used it…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the…
We are pleased to release a hotfix for RAD Studio 10.2. This hotfix addresses:
debugger issues for Android, iOS, and Linux;
Delphi Win64 compiler issues;
a C++ RTL issue addressing a crash on exit;
a security issue in the C/C++ RTL. Our thanks to Łukasz Wyporek for notifying us of this issue.
You can find full details about each issue in the readme and download page on CodeCentral.
We also have…
RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo will be out very soon, and I’d like to let you know some of what you can expect to see new on the C++Builder side. While the majority of work is for Linux, which will be available for C++ in 10.2.1, we’ve worked on three key…
Update July 24, 2018:With thejust-released Community Edition of C++Builder, we’ve updated these posts.
Please visit the new version of this blog post here.
Community Editionreplaces the old Starter edition, and is a full-featured, free…
