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I wrote an article about Async Tasks in VCL Projects

I have systems with identical software and always latest Windows 10. Slowness/hanging is noticeable only on systems with single harddisk and no SSD. The harddisk can get fully occupied by system activities and thus blocks user processes, very annoying. System updates are configured postponed and MS Store app updates are set to be manual, but this helps only partially. Switching off internet connection is more effective.

If you want to avoid third party components, you are stuck with TNetHTTPClient which is a bare bones solution requiring extra code. That is why there are several better third party components, some free, some expensive. I support the free ICS which has a forum here, it includes a component that accesses the GMail API with OAuth2, most other Google APIs are probably similar in concept. Angus

If you consider "2 weeks" as "old". It's constantly updating itself, I can't see how it can be "old". I don't use it every day but it seems to want to restart every couple of weeks. This is the virus calld "MSWindows10" that never sleeps for more than 10 minutes. It's my own copy running in a VM. It's isolated from everything, and if it blows up I just restore it from backup. I don't want no stink'n updates! They tend to screw things up while doing absolutely nothing to make my work any better. There are no corporate policies at work here. But the past few places I've worked who provided me with laptops rebooted weekly, sometimes multiple times a week, installing stuff. I never had a say in any of that. This one's mine, and I don't like that it's constantly doing stuff without telling me what's going on. Windows 7 rarely did this. I'm a developer, and I don't like having maintenance done on the building while I'm working in it just because someone somewhere reported a problem in a similar building. There are enough instablities in Delphi! I don't need OS stuff getting replaced that leads to other problems that sideline me for hours tracking them down. Edition Windows 10 Pro Version 20H2 Installed on ‎10/‎14/‎2021 OS build 19042.1288 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.3920.0

Hello, good news: just a few minutes ago I released V6.4 of the Delphi Encryption Compendium library. You can find it here: https://github.com/MHumm/DelphiEncryptionCompendium/releases/tag/V6.4 What's new? Bugfixes Improved layout for Hash FMX demo Partly revised documentation Implemented GCM (Galois Counter Mode) block chaining support for 128 bit block cipher algorithms Enjoy TurboMagic

Yes of course, I just added the player to explain why I need this in particular. By reading the platform implementation for MacOS I found a solution which should work fine on all platforms: The public SetBoundsF function which is part of the TCommonCustomForm is executed every time the window moved. procedure SetBoundsF(const ALeft, ATop, AWidth, AHeight: Single); override; Christian

I just started using Stefan's TestInsight tool and it's pretty cool. Blog post up tonight: https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/radauthenticator-part-3-upgrade-unit-testing-in-delphi-with-testinsight

Give me written articles over video any time! If the article is shit, you can spot it in seconds, but I've wasted too many hours watching videos while hoping there will be something useful in there.

Would be nice to have a written transcript also. Many people (or at least one 🙂 ) prefers reading this kind of stuff instead watching youtube. Also no speakers connected at work to the computer.

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Great, just what I need. GExperts for Delphi 11 just got pushed further into the future. I'm really despairing with this high DPI stuff. Maybe I should just give up and wait for 11.1. There are more fun things to do with my spare time than trying to somehow work around all those bugs in Delphi 11.