April 2019 – losLab Software

Delphi 5 TDateTimePicker Format

During add Delphi 5 compatibility to the Purchase Order calculation sample of HotXLS Delphi Excel Spreadsheet component, an error occurred while compiling under Delphi 5. The line which set the date format of the TDateTimePicker control does not compile:

DateTimePicker.Format := 'MM/dd/yyyy';

1	DateTimePicker.Format := 'MM/dd/yyyy';

TDateTimePicker control of Delphi is a wrapper around a Microsoft control. It allows you to […]

ftol and the 64bit Delphi inline asm changes

function _ftol( f: double) : Integer; cdecl;
begin
  asm
    lea    eax, f
    fstp  qword ptr [eax]
  end;
  result := Trunc(f);
end;

function _ftol( f: double) : Integer; cdecl;

begin

asm

lea eax, f

fstp qword ptr [eax]

end;

result := Trunc(f);

end;

Above is a Delphi inline asm version of the ftol (Floating Point to Integer Conversion) function used by our HotPDF Delphi PDF component. When compiling above Delphi codes in the 64-bit target platform, Delphi will raise below error: [dcc64 Error] E1025 Unsupported language feature: ‘ASM’ The reason is: The 64-bit Delphi compiler DCC64 does […]