After installing the official Delphi Berlin Update 2 I have faced nasty problem. One of my unit was using the Vcl.ScreenTips unit (for TScreenTipsWindow). And
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Take care of CONST and interface parameters!
As one of the good guys (Agustín Ortu) recently pointed about one very tricky thing about const parameters and interfaces I decided that it is
Try or not to try
The widely used and a simple thing like exception handling is often done in a wrong way. There are documentation about try/finally and try/except statements of
Hide the routine from Delphi auto-complete
There is a little trick for hiding the routine from the Delphi autocomplete: type TTest = class public procedure &&DoThat; end; procedure TTest.&&DoThat; begin end;
Casting to record types and use of absolute
Everyone knows the possibility to cast the types explicitly in Delphi. Often we cast the Integer to Pointer, TObject or one class to another class
Forcing the linker to include your class
To force the linker to include your class into executable (often needed for RTTI) you can just write single line in the unit initialization to
