Video of Delphi Code completion and code browsing features you may not know about

11/2/2006 10:22:55 PM #

Steve,

the link to the video is using a relative path and is screwed in FeedDaemon (becomes feeds . feedburner . com / files / codecompletion.html)

Just thought I'd let you know

Sebastian

Sebastian

11/2/2006 11:49:35 PM #

Dude, why did you set the movie's height to 16777215?

You've got a decent height in the object tag, so it looks OK in Internet Exploder, but the embed tag is screwed up, so the movie is completely unusable in Firefox. (Audio, but no video to speak of...)

Joe White

11/3/2006 12:27:26 AM #

Dude!  
  The height is now fixed so thanks for letting me know. I used CamStudio (an OS) app to create it so things aren't perfect. I did get the height on the other video I posted right but flaked on this one. FWIW, I can't hear audio in FF but perhaps that's just me. "Exploder" (I always laugh at that) works though (at least IE6 does).

-Steve

Steve Trefethen

11/3/2006 4:51:16 AM #

I tried to watch this video in FireFox and Opera. After they both eat about 1 Gb of memory (about half of video) I have to kill them. Is it only me?

Vlad

11/3/2006 7:54:10 AM #

Thanks Steve,

Really informative.

Regards Eelco

Eelco

11/3/2006 8:19:52 AM #

The distorted height and excess memory consumption bugs are known issues in CamStudio. There are work arounds and fixes on the CamStudio page.

Lachlan Gemmell

11/3/2006 9:08:38 AM #

Thank you for your effords,

great video.. some of the features where completelly unknown for me (code completion at uses, sorting of the window) great !!! Just only one comment about the video (just a suggestion.. not a claim of course).. You should use the default camtasia html template for posting this flash movie as the timeline of the video works. In your template the timeline does not work.

Regards,

Lluis.

Lluis (Albert Research)

11/3/2006 1:29:08 PM #

Thanks for the video. Ditto what Lluis said. BTW  Vlad is right. These web swf movies if they are in higher resolution tend to fill up the memory pretty fast. Open up the page and watch the VM meter rise in Task manager.

Did you try with Windows Media files? Windows Media Encoder 9 has a screen capture mode which is as powerful as any of the swf capturing utils, plus the file size is considerably smaller, and the memory usage is negligible. Oh, and resizing of the movies does not produce tearing artifacts such as those in swf files.

x86
www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

x64
www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

Nardev

11/4/2006 3:12:20 AM #

Dang it, how long has THAT been there.

Ugh, I wish I had realized about the code completion in the class, esp. the multiple select a LONG time ago.  That saves a TON of time and typing.

It all works in D7 except for the uses clause and adding interfaces to the Class( statement. (Well, that and templates, of course)

you forgot ctrl-down to compliment ctrl-up (jumping from declaration to code and back again) - I can't live with out 'em!

C Johnson

11/4/2006 4:14:41 PM #

Steve,

if you're ever looking for more exotic features to demonstrate:

- incremental search in the editor (Ctrl+E)
- keyboard navigation of Object Inspector (Ctrl+Tab, Tab, ., backspace, incremental search)
- reorganizing components with Drag&Drop in Structure Pane (OK, not *that* exotic, but probably nice for newbies)

Cheers

Sebastian

Sebastian

11/4/2006 6:57:22 PM #

Hi Sebastian,
  Great suggestions I feel another video coming on!

-Steve

Steve Trefethen

11/5/2006 11:28:33 AM #

Hi, I have a problems watching this swf too, memory usage goes up constantly, please, check Issues section here http://www.camstudio.org/

Another Vlad

11/6/2006 1:08:58 AM #

Hi Vlad's,
  I've followed the issues section on the camstudio website so hopefully the memory issues have now been resolved.

-Steve

Steve Trefethen

3/25/2007 12:59:31 PM #

Steve,
since I realize you're busy I went ahead and described a few of those exotic shortcuts in my brand-new blog. Check it out at msohn.blogspot.com/.../...board-navigation-in.html

-Sebastian

Sebastian

3/25/2007 10:58:19 PM #

Sebastian,
  Welcome to the blogosphere!

Steve Trefethen