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As of October, 2016, Embarcadero is offering a free release
of Delphi (Delphi
10.1 Berlin Starter Edition ). There
are a few restrictions, but it is a welcome step toward making
more programmers aware of the joys of Delphi. They do say
"Offer may be withdrawn at any time", so don't delay if you want
to check it out. Please use the
feedback link to let
me know if the link stops working.
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Mensa®
Daily Puzzlers
For over 15 years
Mensa Page-A-Day calendars have provided several puzzles a year
for my programming pleasure. Coding "solvers" is most fun,
but many programs also allow user solving, convenient for "fill
in the blanks" type. Below are Amazon links to the
two most recent years.
Mensa®
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(Hint: If you can
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It is occasionally useful to look a
the largest files on a drive while doing housecleaning chores.
Here's a program that will display a sorted list of a specified number of
the largest files on a user selected hard drive regardless of the folder structure.
For programmers, items of potential
interest include:
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A GetFiles procedure that recursively searches folders on a drive and
builds a stringlist of all files. The list is then sorted by size
and the specified number of files names displayed along with size information.
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When the use clicks on a file, a ShellExecute call is made to start
Explorer.exe to display the containing folder with the clicked file
pre-selected.
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A call is first made to
GetWindowsDirectory to ensure that we can locate Explorer.exe.
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A couple of Format usage
tricks that it took me a while to learn:
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leading zeroes zeroes in a format
string for use the precision field, so '%.10d' pads an integer
field to 10 characters with leading zeroes.
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There is no integer format specifier
that will insert comma punctuation so we convert integers to floating point and
use the %n format specifier. Format('%14.0n',[size+0.0]);
will display file sizes up to 99,999,999,999 bytes with embedded
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Addendum April 30, 2007:
Colin K. just reported that file sizes for very large files (greater than
maximum 32 bit integer size, about 2.1GB) caused the
program to abort. It turns out that Borland changed the file size field to
64 bit integer sometime after Delphi 5 so large files compiled with a late
version can have the abort problem. For the version I use, D5, the program
just reported negative file sizes in those cases. It turns out that even
in D5, the full size is available by combining two 32 bit integer fields
from an extension area of the file information record. That fix was applied
today. As usual when revisiting a program, I made a few other
changes.
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The file search is now about
twice as fast as the original version. |
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The results can now be copied and
pasted elsewhere, to a text file for printing foe example. |
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Scan time and number of file
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Addendum November 10, 2008:
At a user's request, Version 3 was posted today which adds "last Modified
Date" to the displayed information. A new button was also added which
saves the list of large files as a Comma Separated Value, CSV, file.
It is simple to import this file into Excel where it can easily be
re-sorted by date, stamp or filename.
Addendum February 10, 2009: One
of the last two updates seems to have broken some of the features of the
program. Namely file name data was incomplete when clicking a file to open
its folder, and when formatting to create the CSV (Comma Separated Values) file.
In any event, Version 3.1 posted today seems to have fixed those problems,
hopefully without introducing any new ones J.
August 16, 2011: If
reporting of file sizes greater than 4 GB ever worked, it got broken somewhere
along the line. That got fixed today with version 3.3.
Running/Exploring the Program
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| Created: October 19, 2002 |
Modified:
May 11, 2018 |
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