Are you maintaining an application that has been around for more than 5, 6 years? Using a pre-Unicode Delphi version (pre D2009) to do so?
Would you like to switch to a newer Delphi version to gain the advantages of Unicode, generics, extended RTTI, 64 bit, the REST client library and other such niceties?
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Your application allows your users to create and save files. You help your users by remembering where the last file was stored they don’t have to navigate their entire folder structure every time they want to save a file.
So far so good.
First time experience
To make you application even better,
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Boy, do I feel stupid!
As David pointed out in the comments to take one of this subject, there is a much easier way to get all the instantiated forms at run time:
Forgot all about Screen.CustomForms existence. And it’s been there since at least D5…
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For reasons quite unfathomable by me, you would like to get your hands on a list of all forms in your project. [1]
But wait. Do you want this at design time? Or at run time?
Oh, at run time. Pfffew. Ok. I can do that.
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Can’t get a ListView to display the values from your database in columns properly?
You want to display information from your database. You would like it to be displayed in a list with columns. A ListView can do that.
Should be as easy as 1-2-3.
Just set up a query,
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You are working on your application and want to add some color to spruce it up a bit. Setting colors using Delphi’s Object Inspector is a breeze. That is, when you use the predefined colors from the color property’s drop-down list.
Or when you use the color dialog that opens when you double click the Object Inspector’s edit for the color property.
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Enums are nice!
You have found out about enumeration types and you clearly see the advantages they hold over plain, tired, old integers. They are specific, self documenting, type safe – you can’t pass one type of enum when another is expected. Oh yes, you love enums. And enum sets.
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You are in the Delphi IDE and need to make a new form. It looks like another form you already have, but not quite. You could copy and tweak it. That’s the quick way to get the result you need. That’s the way most of your predecessors have gone about creating new forms.
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