Tag: tips and tricks

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] In a comment on my previous post, David Heffernan noted that the IDE messes around with other parts of the application DPR in addition to the uses list. He is right. Another area that the IDE likes to muck about with is the code in the DPR begin .. end itself ! Fortunately there is a simple way to avoid that also.

[Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes] Over on stackoverflow, Ann Gossard had a question about using an $ifdef in the project (DPR) uses list to use one unit in preference over another, specifically in debug builds. In this situation, it immediately occurred to me that unit aliases might be creatively deployed. What follows is a slightly expanded version of the answer I posted to that question.