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Good point. Messes like this often have have the stink of a company that has decided to take larger profits rather than sufficiently funding their engineering staff. Whether that’s the case with Emb, I don’t know.

A mess like this is the reason why I am usually not thrilled when Embarcadero buys some tool or some components/library and takes over maintenance.

OpenSSL has released quarterly updates for the two supported branches, 3.0.1 and 1.1.1m, Windows binaries are available from http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download or https://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magics.asp . OpenSSL 3.0.1 fixes a medium security risk relating to clients verifying X509 certificates from the server, a malicious server could potentially send a bad certificate that caused the client to hang or misbehave during verify. https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20211214.txt Now OpenSSL 3.0 has been available for three months, updated the main supported OpenSSL release to 3.0.1. The samples SslInternet directory now has both OpenSSL 1.1.1m and 3.0.1, ICS will try and load OpenSSL 3.0 first, then 1.1.1 if not found, unless the global variable GSSLEAY_DLL_IgnoreNew is set true before OpenSSL is loaded. Likewise GSSLEAY_DLL_IgnoreOld may be set true to ignore 1.1.1 and fail unless 3.0 is available. This is available from SVN and the overnight zip. Note the binaries are now digitally signed by 'Magenta Systems Ltd' instead of 'Open Source Developer, François PIETTE' due to the massive cost of renewing the open source certificate. Developers can always resign the DLLs with their own signing certificate to remove the Magenta name. Separately YuOpenSSL has released both these versions as commercial DCUs allowing applications to be used with OpenSSL without needing separate DLLs. Angus

Hi wuwuxin. Here are several short videos that demonstrate Image32's interactive capabilities... http://www.angusj.com/delphi/image32/Videos/img32.ctrls.mkv http://www.angusj.com/delphi/image32/Videos/layers301.mkv http://www.angusj.com/delphi/image32/Videos/layers201.mkv

I have no experience with stores other than Google Play and the Apple Appstore. I'm pretty sure there are no alternative stores for iOS devices. There is of course side-loading which is possible for just about all Android devices, but is less practical for iOS devices. So using alternative stores and side loading you would be able to use a single RAD Studio version for longer than if you were going through the official app stores, but within a few years I'd expect something will change and you would need to upgrade. And when I say "upgrade" I actually mean "buy another full price license". Embarcadero stopped offering upgrade pricing a few years back as part of their campaign to get everyone on subscriptions. Occasionally they offer it again for a limited time special but you shouldn't count on it being available. In that case it sounds like it would be difficult for you to make a business case to move from the community edition to a commercial license.

That's a tool chain limitation rather than language though.

But that was after my answer I already mentioned here that I am not a programmer. I'm just playing with him

IIRC, there used to be a Delphi Driver Development Kit at least up to Delphi 2007, but I never had the need to make use of it.