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You seem to think we should all be grateful for what we get and be quiet, you forget that ultimately we are all paying customers, many of us having sunk significant amounts of money into delphi over the years (not to mention staking our careers on it). As paying customers, we have a right to expect better, and to complain and criticise when it's warranted - and sadly lately with Delphi it is warranted. I've paid for way more versions of delphi than I have actually been able to use (due to quality issues - including D11). As for the hard working team, well they are anonymous - name 5 people on the team (and I don't mean the product managers).. I'll wait.... Back in the day the dev team were on the newsgroups, interacting with their customers, now you would be hard pressed to name one of them that posts here. I have no idea if the 'team' (1 person, 5, 10? who knows) even reads these forums or if they even have any idea how their customers feels about what they are delivering. Some days I have to drag myself back to working on my delphi projects.. today I fired up delphi to debug a problem with FinalBuilder, the IDE crashed on the first run - not an uncommon occurance. I've used delphi since 1995, I have millions of lines of code invested in it - so I persist - but I very much doubt that potential new customers would do the same - I know I wouldn't if I were one of them.

Well, first of all, none of the libraries are closed source, every licensee may/can/should take a look at the RTL or VCL code. Furthermore there are some really smart fellows looking at that code, who develop some stuff I for one can't even begin to understand. So I'm pretty sure the comments don't come out of the blue and are not simply made to disrespect. They are heartfelt cries of pain and sorrow.

Delphi 11 Update 1 will support Firebird 4.

I think they were fielding questions as fast as they could but could only get to so many. It went over time as it was. I've been on that side of the screen and you just can't get to everyone's question or comment.

Hello! I developed chesslive.com (now offline, dead). I don't do it with Delphi, it was plain javascript but the system was: - backend with websockets. I think that you could search something about this tech with Delphi. Pub-Sub model, with websockets. It was really fast, playing thousands of simultaneous games (yeah, blitz! people like blitz). - client was vanilla javascript, but use websockets to talk with the servers. - The scheme was something like: player1: subscribe to the chanel with id (myGameId) server:ok create the channel player2: subscribe, player1: move, server: transmite the move to player2, player2: do the move and make my move, send to server... and so on. Is really easy. I hope that this info help you as one possible solution, at least, it is a real case! 🙂 🙂 🙂 You could read: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/websockets-harness-real-time-power-in-your-delphi-apps/

Hi Felix, For those unaware of the subject area, I assume you're talking about the chess engine Stockfish. You're going to need to run a console app (stockfish) and then capture the output. For VCL apps you can use DOS Command. It's in GetIt. I'm not sure of this is available for Firemonkey. I hope this helps. Steve

No. Longstanding limitation. Kinda sucks. Can't have multiple helpers which would be another way to do what you want.

I have found a very useful software with source code the bad news it is created with vb.net, not Delphi https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool https://github.com/kimmknight/raweb https://github.com/kimmknight/rdpx this what i was looking for Hope someone port it to Delphi

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45285599/how-to-use-animated-gif-in-firemonkey appears to have a working code example in the last comment? Note that I have NOT tested it.

And when did Firedac will support Firebird for Android? Actually, Unidac can (it's just a little hard to deploy Firebird correctly)! I am not an Interbase fan, especially when I found that Interbase don't have windowing functions Oh, I also asked a question about Firebird with same behaviour : ignored. Don't know if I made a mistake with webinar or there was an Embarcadero filter

It never ceases to amaze me how people in these forums can have such deep and intimate knowledge of the code of the IDE and it's plugins and libraries that they feel they have the right to highly criticize the hard-working team behind the complex and powerful development tools we use. As an independent programmer, I can set my own deadlines--and I don't release anything until I'm sure it's ready. When I worked for a large corporation, executives that have to please shareholders are the ones that set deadlines--and whatever code was ready, was released. I'm sure the Delphi team would've loved to postpone the release of D11 until it was more fully tested and all the plugins were finished to be released along with them but I'm also fairly certain they didn't have a choice and are also not allowed to voice those internal issues. Personally, I feel sorry for them and the pressure they must be under, especially when they read these posts and can't do a single thing about it.

Ok, at DelphiCon2021 David Millington answered that the bookmarks are coming soon, besides the HDPI issue they are working how it will be integrated in the IDE (whatever that means).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality