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Lately I have found myself spending way to much time locating and converting my various toolbars and buttons to use SVG images. Part of that time was searching multiple archives only to find the same list of icons, however in different weights and sizes. The Microsoft Fluent UI icon repository is difficult to easily navigate and requires multiple steps to grab an icon... there had to be an easier way. So I wrote one that not only allows one to save SVG files, but also PNG files with an included -x size added to make it super easy when adding to an existing image collection (if you, like me, have projects that are still not quite in the latest version of Delphi). The project requires Delphi 12 (or minimally Delphi 10.4 with Skia4Delphi added) to recompile, I have included a compiled executable as a release asset if you do not have the required Delphi version. There are currently 27,400 individual SVG icons, additionally those that have both a filled and outline version have the option to also generate a "TwoTone" icon. You have complete control over colors and export sizes. https://github.com/skamradt/SVGIconViewer Currently included Icon libraries: Microsoft Fluent UI, Tablar-Icons If you find this project useful, I would appreciate a star. If it saves you time and effort, feel free to buy me a coffee (or several, code signing is so expensive lately). 🙂

I have Delphi CE 11.3 and Delphi CE 12.1 installed and running on the same machine with no issues.

TStringHelper appeared in System.SysUtils in XE3. From beginning it had Split method.

The "crew" is me. Since Indy 11 has been pending for a very long time, I've been considering lately about updating Indy 10 just to bring it more inline with Embarcadero's releases (ie, adding LIBSUFFIX, etc) sooner rather than later. Dropping older compilers, etc will still wait for Indy 11 for now.

I can access my development machine in three ways. 1) Physically. I have access to the actual machine. 2) Remotely using VPN and RDP. 3) In the office, I use a physical machine with 2 VMs. One of those VM I'm using to open a VPN/RDP to access my development machine. After migrating to 12.2 I noticed some blinking when accessing my machine using the VM (method 3): There was the blinking. Using method 2 : blinking with method 1 no blinking at all. What's happening ( when using method 2 and 3) : As I type my code, some syntax check takes place. The code editor light ups a few areas of the IDE. For example, Red exclamation dots on the margins, the squirrels lines below invalid code, the structure windows displays the errors. During all that action, the lines in the code editor flashes very fast. And as I type the code to "resolve" the errors, the code editor blinks. It didn't happened with 12.1. I tried a few settings to optimize my RDP connection, but the blinking is still there. The optimization helped reducing a little.

I wouldn't expect much on/from this, for many years i am not fan of what Embarcadero focusing their effort and resources, but about this particular one, i don't think they can do much. Take an example CFG, it is still new and not fully matured by Microsoft itself, while the real deal (the devil most needed) in its parts is RFG, this one in particular is not standardized and i really don't expect they will have any specification any time soon if ever ! Without written specification, no compiler and linker can perform/produce compliant code, a code that OS require to to perform undocumented behavior while still changing on the OS part, so ... Embarcadero can't help or do much for now, yet there is parts can be implemented, here i am talking about parts to be comply with the known and documented part of the CFG. The request for RFG is outrageous and out of the reality as you mentioned it, even Rust with LLVM can't do it. I expect that audit is more like the more the merrier in a (longer) list of checkboxes without thinking them enough, and it is their right to do so after all, they should everything they can think of, the red line is were to make it a deal breaker. On this i agree, this is Embarcadero lack or lag in this space, they neglected this part for very long time, i mentioned 2 DLLs out of punch i came across and you have one, i had in few projects to remove the import for these two DLLs to raise a project rank in VirusTotal, signed or not signed was it. But for Embarcadero to do something about this they need put effort and ask for what should be removed or adjusted, the community can report them, of course some public awareness is critical here, so an initiative should be take a place, started by Embarcadero. I am out of touch with the new IDEs, and really don't know if the mentioned above DLLs still relevant now, but many here aware about this now and can help, as for FireMonkey and cross platforms.

SVG Shell Extensions contains examples of how to create Windows File Explorer extensions, both preview and thumbnail.

Of course, if there is no code to create a preview it obviously cannot be shown. In case you think about creating your own previews used by Windows Explorer, I once wrote an article about how to do that with Delphi: Windows 7 Previews – the Delphi Way (not sure if that is still valid for more recent Windows versions, though).

Thanks, done.

IF possible, check your tickets on the new Jira, that they are visible to others also... For example This is not visible to me; https://embt.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/RSS-446 If no proprietary information, please make tickets public. -Tee-

For me is three out of three from the new QA fixed: Incorrect Scaling of Vcl.Dialogs.InputQuery - RAD Studio Service - Jira Service Management (atlassian.net) Incorrect Scaling of Vcl.Dialogs.MessageDlg - RAD Studio Service - Jira Service Management (atlassian.net) Internal Compiler error AV5A1299F7(5A060000)-R0000014C-0 - RAD Studio Service - Jira Service Management (atlassian.net) And a couple from the old QA: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-43263 https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-41898

I was more targeting a system on top of the current JIRA Service Desk, not replacing their internal JIRA. After all it is the web interface that sucks, not the fact they use a cloud based JIRA in the first place.

They used to have a home grown QM system and replaced it for a reason.

I have no idea why this DLL is imported, but searching landed me here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/avrt/ And those belongs to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/procthread/multimedia-class-scheduler-service Nothing more about this, except some little rant about how Delphi RTL and VCL using and importing stuff just because the original designer didn't think it through, useless stuff, like every single Delphi application is importing winspool.drv for no reason at all except the idea that every application should use the printer !! and historically the Printer Drivers were the most abused for security vulnerabilities, hence just adding more stuff to irritate any AV about Delphi applications, also there is this one "winsta.dll" which as i recall were used as backup in case the application can't figure the OS version, so there is a static import for this DLL and it is not call, this DLL is the library responsible for many terminal and servers (stations) connection and licenses managing, communicating... etc , this one is red flag for any application in the eyes of any Security software (AV)... enough of that. I think you can't do any of these in Delphi except this one "Authenticode", which has nothing to do with the compiler or linker, this is not even a flag, this is the Digital Signature as defined by Microsoft, so all you have to pass this, is to sign you binaries with Code Signing Certificate issued by trusted Certificate Authority that leads to trusted root in the OS store (certificate store). The rest names decryption : cfg = Code Flow Guard , Delphi compiler can't produce compatible code for this, in fact i don't any other compiler than VS will do it, as the whole CFG is not yet matured, and really should depend on specific hardware, namely CPU features, this is new standard. to read more about this https://www.intel.com/content/dam/develop/external/us/en/documents/catc17-introduction-intel-cet-844137.pdf forceIntegrity = https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/integritycheck-require-signature-check?view=msvc-170 well this one is complete useless and will not add any security what so ever, easy to enable though as it is a simple bit in the PE header gs = well this one is tricky as it might be Gs or GS https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/gs-buffer-security-check?view=msvc-170 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/gs-control-stack-checking-calls?view=msvc-170 One does need special stack protection explained by stack cookies while the other ensure free buffer zone in the stack, both Delphi can't do ! rfg = Return Flow Guard very similar to CFG, also to my knowledge this one is part of CFG, and it is useless to make it out of CFG, and there is no specification yet on how to be implemented except in theory and as VS do it ! https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/206560/methods-of-exploiting-a-windows-executable-protected-by-control-flow-guard-and I hope that explained the whole thing a little for you, also the one who compiled the report for you, adding these together may be didn't understand them fully or what do they means or how they works, it could be one of these great software that do understand security and how it should be implemented (/sarcasm/), in all cases CFG and GS are impossible with Delphi compiler and linker, although GS protection is possible by using EurekaLog, but it will kill the performance of you application, yet they can not see the flag where the OS will do its part, so the protection against the stack/buffer overflow will be there but no one will witness, audit report should be based on actual source and deep understand what it does, yet it might be regulatory thing these days. as for CFG and its RFG, if it is that much needed then you need to redo you application in VS (namely Visual Studio) nothing else. Good luck and hope that was clear.