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Hi, that's a fair question and one I have asked myself a bit over the last 6 months. The short version is that the core of it is ready to go. I saw an updated cut of the docs checked in last night, so I'll be reviewing them today. That basically leaves some installer changes and then we can release. For those who care about why it has taken so long, I feel I owe an explanation. It mostly hasn't been technical issues. We did have a couple of subtle unicode bugs that took us awhile to squash, but that was solved quite awhile ago. Most of the issues that have delayed us have been non-technical. I think most of you don't need me to tell you that the last year has been a stressful time. We had a couple of major services customers get hit by issues with developers unavailable due to covid, which put extra strain on our resources. Further, the main developer that is working on smartinspect hit some serious burnout and stress related mental health issues and I took a decision to give him the space he needed to work through them. He was already feeling guilty about not delivering on time, and this added to the background-level of anxiety he was already struggling with around covid. He didn't need me also riding him about missing dates. So, ultimately the delay is on me. As I said in an earlier post on our site, nobody who's subscription was current when we took over will be out of pocket. We paused the clock on active subscriptions on the day we acquired it, and we'll restart the clock on the day we release. However I do understand the frustration, and I apologize for it. We're doing our best to fix it. Cheers Malcolm

Zero lines of Delphi code, just one HtPanel: (artefacts on video are from GIF compression) HTML: <style> body {padding: 20px} td {height: 20px; resize: horizontal} .gauge1 {background: linear-gradient(to bottom, steelblue, blue);} .gauge2 {background: linear-gradient(to bottom, lightgreen, green);} </style> <table width="800"> <tr> <td width="50%"> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="gauge1" width="70%"></td> <td class="gauge2"></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="gauge1" width="70%"></td> <td class="gauge2"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="gauge1" width="70%"></td> <td class="gauge2"></td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table width="100%"> <tr> <td class="gauge1" width="70%"></td> <td class="gauge2"></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>

When you say messages - do you mean hints and warnings? (IMO, Hints and warnings are bugs waiting to happen and needs to be fixed on sight)

ICS V8.66 has been released at: http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download ICS is a free internet component library for Delphi 7, 2006 to 2010, XE to XE8, 10 Seattle, 10.1 Berlin, 10.2 Tokyo, 10.3 Rio and 10.4 Sydney, and C++ Builder 2006 to XE3, 10.2 Tokyo, 10.3 Rio and 10.4 Sydney. ICS supports VCL and FMX, Win32, Win64 and MacOS 32-bit targets. The distribution zip includes the latest OpenSSL 1.1.1k win32, with other versions of OpenSSL being available from the download page. Changes in ICS V8.66 include: 1 - Added a new TIcsInetAlive component to check for IPv4 and/or IPv6 internet connectivity, using Ping and/or HTTP, defaulting to www.msftconnecttest.com run by Microsoft for Windows 10 alive checking. The online and offline check intervals may be set, and event fires when online state changes. Sample OverbyteIcsHttpRestTst has a demo for new component. 2 - OpenSSL 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 ceased security fix support over 12 months ago so ICS now only supports 1.1.1, with 3.0 support due in the next few months. This removes a lot of legacy code and functions, and several old ICS functions needed for backward compatibility. Two components only used for 1.0.2 have been removed, TSslStaticLock and TSslDynamicLock which may give an error loading forms, until they are removed. SslContext SslOptions is now ignored, use SslOptions2 instead which has more modern options. Can not remove SslOptions because it's saved on too many DFMs. Most modern applications should not be using SslConext, but IcsHosts for servers for high level client components like TSslHttpRest. 3 - Undertook a major clean-up of OpenSSL functions that may require end user application changes if low level OpenSSL functions have been used, hopefully very rarely. All OpenSSL functions have been renamed to their original names removing ICS f_ prefix for commonality with other Delphi applications. Renamed literals BIO_CTRL_PENDING_, CRYPTO_NUM_LOCKS_, CRYPTO_LOCK_, OPENSSL_VERSION_ with underscore to avoid conflicts with functions of the same case sensitive names. Removed unit OverbyteIcsLibeayEx not used for a while. Most OpenSSL type pointers to Dummy array are now simple Pointer type. Changed most OpenSSL var parameters to pointers for commonality. New TSslWSocket method SslOK is TLS/SSL negotiated OK. LoadVerifyLocations no longer lets OpenSSL use default CA folder locations which is potentially a security risk. 4 - Bring server SSL/TLS security levels up to latest Mozilla recommendations. In 2021 Mozilla now recommends TLSv1.3 as modern ciphers and TLSv1.2/1.3 as Intermediate supporting all browsers from last five years, so IcsHosts now use sslCiphersMozillaSrvTLS12 as Intermediate level, also Mozilla recommends no cipher server preference so changed that. Updated SslSrvSecurity levels: sslSrvSecInter, sslSrvSecInterFS and sslSrvSecHigh now all the same TLSv1.2 or 1.3, sslSrvSecTls12Less now TLSv1.2 only, sslSrvSecSsl3 not supported, only sslSrvSecBack supports TLSv1 and 1.1, sslSrvSecTls13Only unchanged TLSv1.3 only. 5 - Added support for YuOpenSSL which provides OpenSSL in a pre-built DCU statically linked into applications, rather than using external OpenSSL DLLs. This make application distribution more reliable since it can not fail by users deleting the DLLs or copying incompatible versions into the directory. YuOpenSSL is a commercial product from https://www.yunqa.de/ and is supplied as separate compiled DCUs for Delphi 5 to 10.4. DEFINE YuOpenSSL in Include\OverbyteIcsDefs.inc determines whether the DCU is linked or the external DLLs. Note only one version of OpenSSL can be linked with YuOpenSSL, whereas different DLLs can be supported. Apart from setting the define and adding a path to YuOpenSSL.dcu, no other application code changes are needed unless you check or report the DLL directory, when GSSLStaticLinked can be checked to see if OpenSSL is statically linked. Also worth noting that YuOpenSSL provides access to the all OpenSSL APIs, while ICS only accesses those DLL APIs needed for functionality we support. 6 - Added a better way of configuring Socks proxy and HTTP Tunnel proxy settings in TWSocket, similarly to that added for THttpCli in V8.62. The new ProxyURL property sets SOCKS or HTTP Tunnel proxy settings using a single URL, ie proto://[user:password@]host:port where proto is socks5 or http. Also added new methods SetSocks and SetHTTPTunnel to set proxy properties in a single call. Socks proxy and HTTP tunnelling again support host names, broken in V8.56. The sample OverbyteIcsSocksTst has been updated to demonstrate use of the new ProxyURL property and also now supports HTTP Tunnel proxy. 7 - TIcsRestEmail has new OAAuthType property and event for OAuth2 browser URL perhaps via email for servers. TIcsRestEmail now sets OAuth2 errors, and clears old tokens. Increased default timeout for TIcsRestEmail AOuth2 login to 120 seconds since several web page warnings may be seen while attempting to login through the web page. 8 - TIcsHttpMulti has a new ParseLevels property that follow links on a parsed web page to lower level pages, which are also parsed, looking for files to download with a specific file extension, ie .avi. It ignores parent links without a file extension, and external links. This allows the component to download files indexed using HTTP from CCTV camera memory cards. 9 - In TSslHttpRest ensure SSL is initialised for non-REST HTTP requests like GET, POST and PUT. 10 - In TSslWSocketServer, added better error handling when IcsHosts SslCert is blank, so SslContext is still created for automatically created self signed certificates. 11 - In TSslWSocketServer, TSslHttpAppSrv and TSslHttpSrv, added new onBeforeCtxInit event which if set is called once before each IcsHosts SslContext is initialised to allow the context parameters to be adjusted for special ciphers or protocols. 12 - In THttpCli, AddrResolvedStr is now still available after the connection closes to report the IP address used for the connection. When using an HTTPS proxy with the CONNECT command don't send host and port which some servers are unable to handle, probably broken with V8.64. 13 - In TIcsMailQueue, added a new method CheckOAuthLogins that should be called before the queue starts when using OAuth2 email logins, which allows interactively checking with a browser of any OAuth2 login credentials, avoids asking for login first time email sent maybe days later. 14 - In TSslX509Certs, When starting the local web server for file challenges, check the server IP address still exists or change to 0.0.0.0, may not work if multiple IPs exist. 15 - Updated to OpenSSL 1.1.1k with two high security fixes, one introduced in the last version relating to a certificate chain validation that ICS does not use, the other relating to servers using TLSv1.2 and renegotiation, and that feature is removed in V8.66.

procedure TForm1.MenuItem1Click(Sender: TObject); var I: integer; list: TStringList; AItem1: TListViewItem; begin list := TStringList.Create; for I := 0 to ListView1.Items.Count - 1 do begin AItem1 := ListView1.Items[I]; name := AItem1.Data['Text1'].AsString; phone := AItem1.Data['Text2'].AsString; index := AItem1.Data['Text3'].AsString; list.Add(name + sLineBreak + phone + sLineBreak + index + sLineBreak); end; list.SaveToFile('C:\Users\Gt\Desktop\TestContactBack.vcf'); list.Free; end; You don't need ListView1ItemClick at all for this.

Don't assign the Selected property at all--that's not going to help you. Replace that line with the name, phone, index assignments from ListView1ItemClick.

It sounds like a Muprhy's Law: the most useful methods are usualy declared as private.

Setting .Selected isn't changing what AItem is pointing to, so AItem never changes. Instead, you would want to assign AItem: AItem1 := ListView1.Items[I]; Then you could access the item's data.

Is there a chance to see an (un)official Git repository? Would make updating the component much more easy

Yes, f.e. you can give ID to each cell and use something like Caption := FormatFloat('0.0', HtPanel1.Doc.GetElementbyId('cell1').InnerWidth) Also HtPanel has event OnElementResizeEnd where Sender is sized element.

TMS has some pretty powerful and flexible grids - and you can have controls in grid cells, but for something like you suggest, you'd have to do some creative programming. https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsvcluipack.asp https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/advgrid.asp What you could do, in theory, is to use several TGridPanels and splitters - but yeah - it depends on the functionality you require to be grid-like.

I would use Vcl.Samples.Gauges for a start. Set some of these in a form setting TGaugeKind = (.. gkHorizontalBar Use the form mouse down events to resize the gauges by dragging. Then convert the form into a component by editing the forms dfm file. Be sure to add/set the parent. This scheme allows the control to load its controls in runtime but not in the IDE.

Yes, ditch AnsiString.

+1 for someone creating an embedded IDE based on PyScripter to embed into a Delphi application and provide Python editing and execution within your delphi app.