Delphi in a Nutshell

by Ray Lischner

NutShl50 package

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The NutShl50 runtime package contains the following units. Note that its options are set to save the nutshl50.bpl package in your Windows system directory.

Colors.pas

Convert a color from RGB to HSV and back again. Convert a color to a gray scale.

CpuID.pas

Use the Pentium CPUID instruction to get information about a processor chip. This is a demonstration of using ASM in Delphi.

Curr64.pas

Use the Int64 type instead of Currency to avoid its problems and limitations.

Dates.pas

Convert dates and times between local & UTC date/times and between UTC and UNIX-style times.

FileIO.pas

A variety of routines for working with files, directories, file names, and I/O.

Fpu.pas

Useful routines for working with the floating point unit. Get or set the rounding mode, precision mode, or exception masks. Determine the floating point class of a number (that is, if the number is finite, infinite, or NaN).

Futures.pas

The TFuture class computes a value in a thread and provides the value at some future time. An application uses futures to compute values that are not needed immediately. See the Threaditor project for an example of using futures.

GrayPal.pas

Create a gray-scale palette. Demonstration of using Delphi and dynamic memory to use C-style arrays.

Helper.pas

Demonstration of how a class can be made off-limits and inaccessible except to other classes in the same unit, despite being declared in the unit's interface section. Use this example as a template for writing your own helper classes. THelper is just a template, not a useful class so it is not part of the nutshl50 package.

IOStream.pas

Example of writing a custom TextFile driver. A TextFile driver lets you redefine how Delphi's standard I/O routines (WriteLn, ReadLn, etc.) work. This example reads from and writes to a stream. See the CpuID project for an example of its use.

LinkedList.pas

Demonstration of how a class can override NewInstance and FreeInstance to change how its memory is allocated.

Matrix.pas

Transpose a Variant matrix. Demonstration of how to access a locked array.

Printable.pas

Declare the IPrintable interface, used by VmtImpl.pas. Use IPrintable whenever you need to print complex structures.

Rect.pas

Simple class to demonstrate method overloading, properties, and other aspects of Delphi class definitions.

Str.pas

Convert almost any type to a string, demonstrating the use of variant open arrays (array of const).

Swap.pas

Functions to swap bytes in a longword or quadword (Int64), instead of the bizarre and useless Swap function in Delphi.

Tile.pas

Demonstration component that displays a bitmap, tiled to fill its bounds.

TrimStrings.pas

Replacements for the Trim, TrimLeft, and TrimRight functions. The replacements work with multibyte strings, unlike their Delphi counterparts.

VmtImpl.pas

Implementation of the interfaces in the VmtInfo unit.

VmtInfo.pas

Interfaces for accessing runtime type information (RTTI) and a class's virtual method table (VMT). Provides much more functionality than Delphi's TypInfo unit, with the added benefit of type safety.

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