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Actually it's "EMB" text compression, probably they should patent it and proudly add in About product information. Much better than LZ4, LZO or LZMA, because it's 3d multilayer

NEW in 10.3.1 10.3.1 includes the following enhancements: ● IDE Productivity Tooling: With Bookmarks, Navigator, and code minimap, developers can quickly move around their code, useful in large units; locate and remember important areas; and visually quickly scroll through their current code within the IDE ● Expanded support for iOS 12 and iPhone X series devices, addressing upcoming App Store requirements ● RAD Server Console UI redesign and migration to the Ext JS framework, providing an enhanced user experience when viewing RAD Server API analytics ● Improved FireDAC support for Firebird 3.0.4 and Firebird embedded ● HTTP and SOAP Client Library Enhancements on Windows ● New VCL Windows and FireMonkey Multi-Device Styles for quickly updating the look and feel of an application ● Fixes to over 150 customer-reported bugs Wiki entry: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/e/index.php/10.3_Rio_-_Release_1 Specific Bug fixes: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/New_features_and_customer_reported_issues_fixed_in_RAD_Studio_10.3.1

Delphi/Rad Studio desperately needs a proper package/library/component manager. A package manager provides a standardized way of consuming third party libraries. At the moment, use of third party libraries is very much adhoc, and in many cases this makes it difficult to move projects between machines, or to get a new hire up and running quickly. Other development eco systems, like Ruby, .net and Javascript, recognised and solved this problem many years ago. Getting a Ruby, .net or Javascript project up an running, in a new working folder or new machine is trivial. Delphi Package Manager RFC

Off-topic, but actually, that is multi-posting. Cross-posting is posting to several newgroups on the same server, with one single post (i.e. the single post has multiple targets and a reply in one group will usually appear in the other groups too, unless the reply was specifically set up not to do that).

Chocolatey is Nuget repurposed for installing applications, not for installing code libraries. It's also a .net application. As much as I love .net/c#, I think a delphi package manager should be written in delphi.

If you want to keep your settings you should answer NO. The question is about removing the settings.

New Delphi, old bugs, including serious: I think I’m slowly starting to Understand Delphi Hater's blog... RSP-23466 RSP-23320 + hundreds of others.... I wonder if this will ever happen, to manage this product properly, why do they think that developers needs tons of new usless features instead of making fast and solid current functionality.

A related project, MultiInstaller, is not a package manager, but a good way to install multiple packages, directly from git repositories (e.g. Github), from zip files or from existing folders in one-step. I can start using a new version of Delphi in minutes rather than days. The project is fork of the Silverpoint MultiInstaller.

Hi, I've had lots of enquiries recently about when Bookmarks and Navigator will have a version available for 10.3 - they've been updated and new features added for every release until now. I'm please to say they will be available with the upcoming version of RAD Studio (10.3.1) which is coming out soon. The reason for for being included, and for the lack of news about a 10.3-compatible release in the past month, is that the plugins have been acquired by Embarcadero and so will now ship with the IDE itself. This is great news. I wrote the plugins originally to add features I wanted to the IDE, and hundreds (thousands, actually!) of developers have given great feedback. It's great to know the features will be available to everyone. In addition, due to the pressures of work, I haven't had much time to maintain or extend them recently, and so having them under Embarcadero's wing means they'll live on and be developed as part of Delphi and C++Builder itself. More info in the linked post! - David

GExperts has recently gained a few new features: Two new experts to start/stop recording and to replay a keyboard macro. These are minimal experts which allow you to add additional keyboard shortcuts to the existing IDE functionality. The idea and the code were contributed by Dejan M. Goto Previous / Next modification Editor Experts. These again ... https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/12/15/new-features-in-gexperts/

Found the solution: - Empty TRestRequest.Ressource property - Remove all parameters except the Header with the subscription key - Use following BaseURL instead: https://api-eur.cognitive.microsofttranslator.com/translate?api-version=3.0&from=en&to=de Now all works like expected. But i even do not know why i should not use the TRestRequest.Params and the Ressource property instead of the URL parameters...

@dummzeuch Missing icon file added.

This causes problems with the ide; the GetIT-Package-Manager doesn't work without it for instance. Instead of fixing this problems they removed the option to deactivate this "feature".

Installed. Went pretty smooth. Inline variables code insight still not fixed. Other than that seems good. Installed the new Navigator plugin from GetIt.

Very good initiative! The absence of dependency manager is a big problem of Pascal ecosystem. Not only CI scenarios suffers from it but library developers - there is no option to make a library dependent on another library as it become too complicated for most people to install and use it. So most libraries have *commons.pas units which contains pretty same purpose routines and classes. I thought about it a lot and the only reason why I not started such a project is that I believe it should be a community effort. Or we'll end up with another package manager without packages and users. I'm familiar with Maven from Java ecosystem and it does it's job well. Some quick thoughts: I see no much sense binding it to a particular IDE or even compiler. Let it work for FPC too! Components and packages are good but libraries are also good and much easier to manage. I think such a tools should have a command line based core with plugins for IDEs when needed. In that case CI server will be able to build project from scratch as it should be. Simple workflow - a project config file at input and a directory structure with library/package files at output. A package can be identified with an ID - something domain name-like works good here and partially solves problems with copyright etc. Please no GUIDs here! To identify a dependency seems to enough: (ID, version, compiler/platform, type) type is source or binary (dcu/ppu). Therefore, to use a library it's needed to create a config file and run the tool. After it ends its work there is a ready to use directory structure with all needed files and maybe even compiler config file with paths.

Indeed, I'm working on it. Now that I have finished my book, OTL will again become a top priority side project. It's hard to tell how much work is yet to be done as at the moment some very basic parts are still missing and I don't know how much time I'll need for them. A crowdfund would be nice - one where you can give me additional time inside a day. 30h per day would be good to have 😉

Thanks for this blog post. Instead of just ranting about GetIt you start taking real actions. I appreciate that very much. Some ideas came already to my mind while reading, but I need to think a bit about them first. Regarding the design time components, I had tried to get this covered with my Package Magician mentioned in this blog post: There Can Only Be One – At a Time! While it works in the majority of cases, it heavily relies on the packages to be unloaded cleanly - sometimes not even standard Delphi packages can guarantee that. Unfortunately some of the big players in the package market seem to ignore that their packages my be unloaded and reloaded in the IDE. If you are interested I am open to contribute the code to your project. BTW, the link to the GitHub repository is broken.

I just fixed two (newly reported) bugs in GExperts: The Set Tab Order dialog no longer worked in Delphi 6, 7 and 2005. This was due to me adding AlignWithMargins (and the associated Margins property) to the dfm file. This property apparently was introduced in Delphi 2006. Again, this underlines what I mentioned several times: I do not use Delphi < 2007 for anything but testing and fixing bugs GExperts. That’s why glitches like this tend to slip by unnoticed. That’s why I would like people to volunteer for testing the various versions. But apparently nobody can be bothered. Fine by me, but you will have to live with the consequences. I don’t have a QA department. The extensions to the Uses Clause Manager caused several thousand (small) files to be created in the GExperts configuration directory. This directory is located under AppData\roaming\GExperts which means it will be copied when roaming profiles are enabledin a Windows domain. I didn’t know that anybody still uses roaming profiles since they are usually not worth the trouble, but apparently they are still being used. So I now moved that cache to AppData\local and also added a config option to disable caching altogether. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/02/09/two-gexperts-bugs-fixed-14-to-go/

Actually, since Delphi 6+, the preferred method is to use $IF with the CompilerVersion and/or RTLVersion constants, instead of using $IFDEF with the VERxxx conditionals.

I do this all the time in AlignMix, our mapping package. Here's our super-fast algorithm: 1. Have a sorted list along one dimension (I normally do longitude) 2. Do a binary search to find the point with the closest longitude (let's call this P:0 ) and record the distance between this point and the search point 3. Start a loop: look at the next sequential point from P:0 in the sorted list; record the distance and update if smaller than previous; exit the loop if the difference in the longitude is now greater than the shortest distance found, otherwise move on to next point 4. Start a loop: look at the previous sequential point from P:0 in the sorted list: record the distance and update if smaller than previous; exit the loop if the difference in the longitude is now greater than the shortest distance found, otherwise move on to next point In practice I combine steps 3 & 4 so it alternates searching for the next above and the next below P:0. Hope that helps. In my tests this is extremely fast and scales the same as a binary search (log(n)) Steve

Very bad idea to use the distance since that involves sqrt. Do the searching with sqr distance and only call sqrt when you have the closest point.

I can confirm this... Damnation. 10.2 installation is pretty useless... 😞 Wouldn't matter too much, but that will be main IDE for a couple of weeks or so 😞 -Tee-

Well, there is no more possible to disable this stupid theming stuff (from the IDE). I've choose a custom color schema and as you see IDE is not correctly painted... And what to say about all these flikers and time needed to display the new color schema.

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