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David Heffernan

Ulverston, United Kingdom

Age: 42

Twitter @davidheff

Answers that I frequently refer to:

  • How does accepting an answer work?
  • How to return text from Native (C++) code
  • How can I allow a form to accept file dropping without handling Windows messages?
  • TLabel and TGroupbox Captions Flicker on Resize
  • How do I make my GUI behave well when Windows font scaling is greater than 100%
  • Buffered files (for faster disk access)
  • TProgressBar never fills up all the way - seems to be updating too fast?
  • Why should I not use "if Assigned()" before using or freeing things?
  • Control enumerators to turn recursive parent/child walking into simple for/in loops
  • List of Delphi language features and version in which they were introduced/deprecated
  • Undefined Behavior and Sequence Points
  • Reduce exe file
  • How can I make a form that is not disabled when another form is shown modally?
  • How can I stop my application showing on the taskbar?
  • Simply code hooking
  • Consumer thread / blocking queue

Other useful resources:

  • Rob Kennedy's What is the exact value of a floating-point variable?
  • Launching an interactive process from Windows Service in Windows Vista and later
  • Teach Your Apps To Play Nicely With Windows Vista User Account Control
  • Window Features
  • Short, Self Contained, Correct (Compilable), Example
  • Raymond Chen's epic series on modality
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