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Hi, I am pleased to announce a new version of the Sempare Template Engine - v1.8.0. (https://github.com/sempare/sempare-delphi-template-engine) The Sempare Template (scripting) Engine for Delphi allows for flexible dynamic text generation. It can be used for generating email, html, reports, source code, xml, configuration, etc. Changes: NEW support calling methods on interfaces NEW support accessing properties on interfaces NEW simplified white space removal (https://github.com/sempare/sempare-delphi-template-engine/blob/main/docs/whitespace-removal.md) NEW License change to Apache 2.0 FIX to support issues under XE7 FIX AV when method method does not exist FIX improved error messaging on exceptions FIX regex threadsafety issue in lexer Most notably, license change has been from GPL to Apache 2.0. Commercial supporters are still appreciated for my time, continuous integration, support, etc. For those that don't know what this is all about, I gave a talk at Delphi Devdays 2024 this year. Here is a link to my talk: I'm hoping the Sempare Template Engine still remains one of the more feature rich, easy to use, and most pascal centric template engines out there for Delphi. Next focus in the development pipeline is native code generation from existing templates to allow you to get native speed without requiring you to make any changes (except including another source file that is auto generated from your templates). Sponsorship is appreciated.

You can just create generic TForm, put TCardPanel on it, add panel with next/back buttons which will change active Card of TCardPanel and here is wizard template.

<Also known as throwing sh*t at a wall>

He was wrong.

https://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2021-february-new-vcl-controls-1042.html

TControlList

My Delphi is in VM with Windows 11. For me the left half will open the list at mouse-down. At mouse-up the open dialog will show.

Strange. Works for me. Also with 150% What I am seeing though (with 11.3 only), is that if I drop the list by clicking on the left half of the dropdown arrow, and then close the list with another click, then the open dialog is invoked. Dropping the list with a click on the right half works as expected.

D 11.3, 150% dpi and it work only if I click the right half of the arrow. The red zone will open the dialog.

We were updated from 12.1 to 12.2. There is no problem with the RDP from real Windows and Linux machines to 12.2. 12.2 is on real and virtual machines. Edit: Forgot to say that 12.2 is on Windows 10 and 11

Have you read the documentation yet? https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/MSBuild https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Building_a_Project_Using_an_MSBuild_Command

It moved to its own expert and I blogged about that change. And I also answered that question in the second post of this thread.

My experience is that they work but require a lot of finagling to get them to work as expected if the application is complex. Most of my projects that use VCL Styles have detours and base classes used to correct behavior. And of course with every update to Delphi these tend to need changes. The worst problem is high DPI which seems like it is just never going to work 100%. I spend time fixing every issue and then have to re-test and re-fix every time they "fix" DPI issues in the VCL.

VCL styles are still not fit for purpose and probably never will be

I just posted another update for SVGIconViewer. This version increases the icon count to over 46,500 with the addition of the Bootstrap icon library, the ability to view a user specified folder containing .svg files and export those files as a Delphi TImageCollection with generated png versions of the files with a single click. https://github.com/skamradt/SVGIconViewer

It isn't. I haven't installed it, but I can read.

I see. But that sense of doom is just a constant.

It exists to balance out my inherent sense of imminent doom.