Debug visualisers are a type of IDE plugin that allows you to change the 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, and…
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 10.2 Release 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 which other…
In Tokyo Release 1 (otherwise known as 10.2.1) we’ve made a number of improvements to our 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…
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, check…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your application showing 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 FireMonkey…
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…
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 areas:
Improved…
Author: NatSam
Would you like to add C++ to your Delphi application? Or add Delphi code to your C++ application? Here’s how.
One thing you might not know is how closely integrated the C++ and Delphi languages are in RAD Studio. You can compile a single application in a…
Update July 24, 2018: With the just-released Community Edition of C++Builder, we’ve updated these posts.
Please visit the new version of this blog post here.
Community Edition replaces the old Starter edition, and is a full-featured, free, Professional-level edition of…
