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Another post about Custom Managed Records. This time, this new language feature is used to create smart pointers. https://blog.grijjy.com/2020/08/12/custom-managed-records-for-smart-pointers/

Why do I waste my time on your posts?

Today I've merged the great work made by @pyscripter and @Vincent Parrett into SVGIconImageList project and released 1.8 version. Now with the new components SVGIconImageCollection and SVGIconVirtualImageList it's possibile to build multi-form High-DPI app in a multi-monitor environment using a single ImageCollection shared by the forms. Many SVG rendering problems are now fixed!

Not sure you missed or ignored it but I'll throw this in here for completeness and because it's free: Git Extensions.

Hold the mouse over the profile picture of the person you want to ignore. You will get additional information on him/her. On that panel there is a "Ignore User" button.

If you call SearchByFieldname always with fFieldName as parameter then don't use a parameter because it is totally normal for a method to use fields of it own class.

There is an ignore list on this forum?! Where? I never seen it!

Instead of just continuing why don't you take a moment to reflect on why one would consider answering your questions a waste of time.

I think I preferred to keep wondering, TBH. It seems very clunky.

You either keep wondering or you simply google it and find this for example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2477026/587106

The FACT is: The Delphi IDE contains a GREY PANEL that was previously INVISIBLE and now for some unknown reason has become visible. What could be the PURPOSE of the grey panel?

...and should never raise exception itself

Just one remark here: If the constructor raises an exception, the destructor will be called automatically. You must always be aware that the destructor might run on an only partially initialized instance.

I don't have a problem with it - the DotNet api is really quite nice, broad functionality, well tested, well documented. Nothing wrong with using it for inspiration. What I wish more than anything is that Embarcadero stops releasing unfinished untested features. 10.4 is up there amongst the worst Delphi releases ever and pretty much unusable for me. LSP is half baked, the IDE is a mess, the debugger barely works and it;s a sloth. The VCL is ruined by poor implementation of themes - flicker everywhere.

That is clearly a RHETORICAL QUESTION. But it doesn't answer the question about the grey panel.