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I have started a new ICS release V8.60, not finished yet but available from SVN and the daily overnight zipped snapshot at : http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download V8.60 is a major update added several new components and sample applications created by Magenta Systems Ltd and previously distributed separately to the ICS distribution. Bundling them with ICS makes installation and updating easier, and allows existing ICS samples to make use of some the new components, such as UTF-8 file logging. There are a lot of comments in the various SVN uploads which are included in the overnight zip file. New classes added include: TIcsBlacklist TIcsBuffLogStream TIcsFindList TIcsIpStrmLog TIcsMailQueue TIcsStringBuild TIcsTimeClient TIcsTimeServer TIcsWhoisCli and there are four new sample applications that illustrate their use: OverbyteIcsMailQuTst.dpr OverbyteIcsIpStmLogTst.dpr OverbyteIcsWhoisCliTst.dpr OverbyteIcsTimeTst.dpr Also there are major updates to OverbyteIcsSslMultiWebServ.dpr which now has almost all the functionality of my commercial web server. V8.60 will also include the Magenta File Transfer components, not finshed yet. Angus

Good reading on this subject: Are there any downsides to using UPX to compress a Windows executable?

Welcome Everyone! Welcome to this forum intended for ICS support. Feel free to ask your ICS questions here. Before asking, search this forum and also check http://wiki.overbyte.be Please stay on topic. Use other forums for subjects not directly related to ICS. --- François PIETTE The author of the freeware Internet Component Suite (ICS) The author of the freeware multi-tier middleware MidWare http://www.overbyte.be

Which problem are you trying to solve? We have quite a few rather large executables, but that never posed a problem.

Thanks PG, BackgroundWorker sounds exactly the solution. On the other hand, it just occurred to me that, I can just create a data queue and a long-living thread to accomplish the task :)

I think that the syntax was always there and I use it a lot. I found it more useful especially it provides a compiler check about the indexing type. This code : NodeNames: array [TInfoType] of string = ('itProject', 'itContacts', 'itWorker', 'itWorkers'); Is exactly equivalent to this one : NodeNames2: array [Ord(Low(TInfoType)) .. Ord(High(TInfoType))] of string = ('itProject', 'itContacts', 'itWorker', 'itWorkers'); Note that you can also use range: NodeNames3: array [itContacts .. itWorkers] of string = ('itContacts', 'itWorker','itWorkers');

The DevExpress VCL roadmap has been finalized: https://community.devexpress.com/blogs/vcl/archive/2019/02/18/vcl-controls-2019-roadmap.aspx Not the best one but at least with some nice improvements promised.

You SHOULD already be able to have per-project packages, in all versions of Delphi. The trick is to install the packages but NOT ENABLE them globally. With no project loaded, install the packages as needed, and then disable them so they don't appear in the Palettes when no project is loaded. Then, load a project, enable only the installed packages it actually needs, and close the project. Repeat as needed for other projects. Then, from now on, the IDE should load and unload packages on a per-project basis. At least, this is how it used to work years ago, I haven't tried it in recent years. Hopefully it still works.

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 😉

It doesn't matter to me whether you use LiveBindings or not. I use it where appropriate and it saves me time. Obviously in your use case you claim it did not save you time. Use the right tool for the job.