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Image32 is a 2D graphics library written entirely in Delphi Pascal. It provides an extensive range of image manipulation functions and includes a polygon renderer that supports a wide range of filling options. Documentation: http://www.angusj.com/delphi/image32/Docs/_Body.htm Examples: http://www.angusj.com/delphi/image32/Docs/Examples.htm Download: https://sourceforge.net/projects/image32/

Additional Info: SVGIconImageList has a wrapper for Image32, so Image32 can be used as one of four rendering engines for SVG icons. Since it proved to be the best of the four, @Carlo Barazzetta has made it the default. See: https://github.com/EtheaDev/SVGIconImageList

The RADStudio tooling still has a ways to go in order to catch up to the new inline variable language feature (first introduced in November 2018.) IMHO complete support for the language feature should have been available before its full release as I believe releasing it half baked was a waste of a lot of goodwill. At minimum, it should have been a user-enabled optional experimental feature. Last time I checked, some issues remain: RSP-32507 Inline variable breaks the Methods drop-down box in Navigation Toolbar RSP-33176 Extract method refactoring broken by inline var definition RSP-33365 In-block variables break the "Find references" RSP-23096 Incorrect debugger values RSP-22089 Code Formatter Fails on Inline Vars

Isn't that why we have submenus ? (although they are an extra click away).

Write the code to apply the changes when they are made, and not just at load time.

@Rollo62 @dwrbudr @RDP1974 @Edwin Yip @Kas Ob. @hsauro I finally released version 1.1 which has been extensively tested on all platforms, which includes a complete demo project, demonstrating how to render svg files, lottie files and more, as well as fixing the issues with backwards compatibility, at the moment the library works on version XE6+ VCL or FMX. Skia's SVG module is still in the experimental phase, even though it works extremely well with most SVG files. Some bugs we detected in Skia's SVG module will be reported later today, however, some issues I'll expose here so you can help the community: Apparently, there is a format incompatibility - vectorized files exported as SVG by Adobe programs are not supported by Skia, however, if you use other online converters (like cloudconvert.com) to convert the .eps or the .ai to svg, it will probably works perfectly. In macOS depending on the language, the decimal separator is not dot (.), ie the conversion from string to float happens wrong depending on the macOS default system language Remarks: These errors are only in relation to the SVG module, which is still in the experimental phase, in addition, Skia is a robust and stable library; If the SVG file works on one platform, it will work the same on all. Changelog Added FMX sample (working from delphi XE6 and above, with platforms Win32, Win64, OSX64, iOS64, Android32, Android64); Added VCL sample (working from delphi XE6 and above); Added pre-built binaries of skia to repository, to facilitate implementation and to serve the samples; Updated skia to version 0.29.0; Added icudtl.dat file to windows platform; Fixed text shaping with RTL language; Fixed compilation in iOS; Fixed backwards compatibility with delphi XE6 above; About samples The samples already have the binaries configured. They are ready to Run.

I always had high hopes that by 10.7 everything will work as intended. Now we will have to wait until Delphi 17.

If they released when it was ready, and spent time fixing the broken windows immediately, then they would be able to develop more efficiently. By letting the defects endure, they just store up problems for the future. Technical debt. I don't find a comparison of modern vs historical delphi very instructive. Should be modern delphi vs its peers.

Please, please, please, with sugar and cherries on top!! I remember way back in the day when Borland actually did release things "when they are ready". I miss those days.

We know they never do that but rather hope they be ready when they ship which also as we know it not the case either.

I'm not buying an entire huge library for one simple UI feature. The TjanRoundedButton solves the problem from a visual standpoint, although it's not as easy to work with as I'd like. (My Delphi license is up for renewal as well, and it ain't cheap either. That library is 2/3 the cost of my Delphi renewal. I only wish I could force everybody to give ME a mandatory 4% raise every year the way EMBT does with their maintenance deals.)

There definitely is a plan! The problem is how much of that plan turns into reality.