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https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-10-4-2-general-patch-and-delphi-compiler-patch/

https://delphisorcery.blogspot.com/2021/04/testinsight-12-released.html

On Windows 7 and later, you can use SetWindowDisplayAffinity() to specify that you want your Form window to only appear on a monitor display. That will omit (black) it out in screen captures, etc.

Patch for the patch has been released.

Some that look interesting - I haven't investigated these in detail so can't give any opinions on them. The CodeProject ones would need to be ported. https://github.com/LUXOPHIA/Random https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1083372/Random-Number-Generator-Recommendations-for-Applic https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1190459/Randomization-and-Sampling-Methods https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5272482/Partially-Sampled-Random-Numbers-for-Accurate-Samp

Since we're now in full bike-shed mode here's my contribution: https://hackaday.io/project/4628-nuclear-random-number-generator A random number generator based on radioactive decay.

@Dalija Prasnikar notified me that the try...finally issue that is mentioned as fixed is not actually fixed by those patches. There will be another patch soon. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-33117

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I can't help but feel sick when I see sql.add (). The readability of the code is lousy I do not know if this also applies to your case. In general, a parsing of SQL text is performed after each sql.add. It is an unnecessary waste of system resources First, I compile the entire SQL text according to the user's choices and at once I assign the entire text to SQL. I usually have a separate function for each choice. So I won't get lost in it. I apologise. It happened by mistake.

I haven't tried this, but if you have the map file, you could use map2pdb and then use windbg to figure out where the exception occurred. As @David Heffernan mentioned, madEcept or Eurekalog are the way to go - they are invaluable for getting usable stack traces, I've fixed countless bugs in my code thanks to madExcept.

https://xkcd.com/221/

Don't know about good PRNGs, but get your seeds here. https://www.random.org/