Good Practices for JavaScript “asm” sections in DWS/OP4JS
The compiler supports writing “asm” aka JavaScript section in the middle of Object Pascal, there are a few good practices as well as tips to keep in mind, let’s review the menu:
OP4JS: “How do I…”
Jon Lennart Aasenden just posted on G+ several links to new “How do I” entries in the OP4JS Documentation:
- Working with controls, the boxing model
- Using the TW3HttpRequest object
- Add a new form to my application
- Create and use a timer object
- Rotate a control by X degrees
- Plot pixels on a off-screen bitmap
You may also want to read Primoz Gabrijelcic’s article “First Steps with Smart Mobile Studio“.
DelphiTools.info relocated
The DelphiTools.info website has just been relocated, it also transitioned from a Linux host to a Windows one.
There were a few glitches with WordPress during the transfer, but they should hopefully have been solved, if not, feel free to post about them here!
SynEdit performance bragging rights?
Committed another round of speedups in the SynEdit SVN, and AFAICT SynEdit is now amongst the fastest text and highlighting editors out there!
To benchmark it yourself, if you don’t have a large text file hanging around, you can make a “meaningful” one easily.
Christmas present for SynEdit users
Just committed to the SynEdit SVN a few enhancements:
- much improved performance for long & large files,
still not quite notepad++-class just yet, but my profiler tells me there are many juicy low-hanging candies left 🙂 - improvements to the TSynGeneralSyn highlighter (single & double quote mode, token callback, and a few other niceties)
- DWScript syntax highlighter has been moved to the SynEdit SVN, the copy in the DWScript SVN will no longer be the primary reference
edit 27/12: committed another optimization, AFAICT, when working on large files, SynEdit is now faster than the Delphi IDE code editor and *way* faster than Scintilla/notepad++ 5.9.6.2 (with and without a syntax highlighter like DWS’s)