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In other news, Lazarus, the North Korean hacker group has released a statement saying it would be better for them if people would please click on the link in that email ebay has just just sent them asking to update their account details. "There's too much mistrust in the world today" said Park Jin Hyok, a spokeperson for Lazarus. "Just click it, godammit".

Delphi is notoriously without any public timelines. They have on occasion published very vague outlooks, but AFAIK no public roadmaps of any reasonable detail exist. During their last release webinar it was Ian, I believe, who suggested this is entirely due to Idera's policies. The old excuse about different countries having different laws about forward-looking statements was mentioned in that context, if I am not mistaken. One wonders how other technology companies with far deeper pockets (hence, bigger targets for lawyers) are able to make all sorts of roadmaps and timelines. I wouldn't blame anyone working on Delphi for the lack of a roadmap, but it's still kind of a running joke for the last decade or more... Prior attempts at Windows on ARM were complete failures, but this one is obviously going to stick, and has nothing in common with Microsoft's previous attempts. I have a Snapdragon Windows PC and it's definitely "for real this time." I don't see any reason why Delphi shouldn't offer Windows on ARM as a compiler target.

Microsoft has done several attempts at Windows on ARM for over a decade and they have all been total failures. Anybody who targeted it ended up wasting a lot of time and money. The most recent effort does have two things previous attempts didn't: full win32 API support and the ability to run x86 binaries. That alleviates the need for application developers to produce ARM binaries until Windows on ARM gains some traction as a platform. Adding support before the platform gains some traction is unwise. We are in fool me once, fool me twice, fool me three times territory for Windows on ARM.

I don't know what research RDP did (probably asking some GenAI ), but Spring4d does not contain thread-safe collections - for those needs, refer to libraries such as OTL or protect them by primitives in your own code according to your use-cases. I don't step into that territory because you cannot simply make general-purpose collections thread-safe. It already starts with simple things like: how do you protect a list where one thread adds/removes items and another iterates over it? It then requires a different API, and it's complex to design a general-purpose thread-safe collection library because everyone has their use cases, which you cannot simply combine.

I am not implying anything or accusing you. Still, in the age of supply chain attacks and smuggling malicious code into open source repositories, anyone that blindly trusts some binary code they cannot build from source is acting grossly negligent.

Is there a timeline from Embarcadero for natively supporting Windows applications on the latest ARM CPUs (e.g., Surface Pro 11)?

No, platform tests are important and valuable. But framework dependency tests have no power here because you can read a single uses clause and know it's fine in 15s.

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As always: Into the pockets of the parent company Idera. It's called a "Gewinnabführungsvertrag" in Germany. On the other hand how do you know that there are millions of Delphi users? And more importantly: Do you know that they have paid for a license recently? Maybe 99% of these supposed millions are still using Delphi 5 or 7?

I expect it's not Delphi 12.3 that's the problem, but the version of Android on the device that you're running the app on. See here. It would help to know the location of the folder you're trying to create.

No library developer would test things like this. I mean why stop at FMX/VCL? What about database frameworks. Does it have dependencies on any of them? Does it work in a Windows service? Should there be a test for that? It's simple to see by inspecting the uses clause, so the developer just does not need to do any of that.

FinalBuilder is an Automated Build tool which supports Delphi 3 - 12.3 and C++Builder 3 - 12.3, along with many other tools. Version 8.5 adds a new Password Variable type, stronger encryption and new actions to interact with the Windows Credential Manager. https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/finalbuilder-85-and-automise-55-release

As I mentioned in the thread you referred to, this interface no longer exists. But as you might have noticed in the Spring commits in develop, I have my own Span implementation, and IList<T> has the method AsSpan, which returns this.

No, we are in the desktop application business and Delphi is by far the best using databases, reporting and whatever you think of to do. But if you want to step in the AI business and want to automate your calendar appointments, sort your e-mail and let AI book a flight for you then yes.

TTreeNode.Data is a Pointer property and WrapDelphi does not support raw pointer properties. The only pointer property supported is PPyObject. So if your wrapped class had a property declared as PPyObject it would work. This also explains the error message. To be able to use the Data property you would need to modify the TTreeNode wrapper and do some custom wrapping of the TreeNode.Data property. Alternatively you could save whatever info you need to store in a python data structure (possibly dict for easy access).

For benchmarking, sure. But otherwise I would think it would be better to let Windows manage that. That code sure does look a lot like this one... https://github.com/graphics32/graphics32/blob/4fbc8d2a3083e42a00ca776eaa52af7cab2de34a/Source/GR32_System.pas#L399

List always does linear search, which is O(n), while hashset does it in O(1) - however, considering the significantly higher cost of calculating the hashcode even with a very fast hash function (which the RTL does not use) and the length of the string for a small amount of entries linear search beats a hashtable. In theory, if the entries are not changed that often, one could sort the list and use binary search. But that also requires a fast, optimized, inlined BinarySearch implementation, which the RTL does not have, IIRC. P.S. Rapid.Generics.TList<T>.IndexOf is broken - line 19503 causes an endless loop. The same defect exists in InternalIndexOfRev. How to repro: procedure IndexOfEndlessLoop; begin var list := Rapid.Generics.TList<string>.Create; for var i := 0 to 1 do list.Add(TGUID.NewGuid.ToString); list.indexOf(list[1]); end;

Putting the actual functionality into a res file where you are loading it from at startup looks very sus, to say the least.

For Delphi / RAD Studio version 12.3, the original solution provided by Jim:  C:\> getitcmd -i=fmxlinux-12-1.78 works "out of the box" with no issues !! ( --> no "patch" needed as in 12.2 ) You can use this solution to get "FMX Linux" until they reach a final agreement with Kryukov's state ...

Thank you, @havrlisan, for the plug for my book. I wrote that specifically for the Delphi programmer who already has VCL experience and wants to leverage their knowledge to expand to other platforms. I also have Andrea Magni's book and it's an excellent deep-dive into understanding and working with Firemonkey. Be aware that Linux development with Delphi requires at least the Enterprise version and does not officially support Firemonkey (yet).

Hi In general FMX works like the VCL for desktop platforms. The main differences are : - positions are single instead of integer (position.x, position.y instead of Top/Left) - Text replace Caption property everywhere (instead of for a TForm) - each visual component is a container - many more alignments than for VCL components - the components are styled and can be completely changed with styles (but don't try that to start). - no TDBxxx components, use LiveBindings to link data to visual components - for macOS the first option of the TMainMenu is fusion with macOS App menu, add an empty one (and hide/remove in FormCreate it if its not macOS) if you want the classic "file" option To debug / deploy to macOs you need a Mac available locally or on Internet and PAServer installed on it. I've done many things on FireMonkey with a lot of open source projects on GitHub (not only games 😉 ). Replay videos (in French) of my Twitch live coding streams are available, but you can check this series (the page is in French, the videos are in English) : https://apprendre-delphi.fr/coding-bootcamp-2023.html To the books list I had the "Delphi Programming Projects" from William Duarte. For other samples then the ones available with Delphi you have this code repository https://github.com/FMXExpress/Cross-Platform-Samples and some others I've listed on https://github.com/DeveloppeurPascal/Delphi-samples/blob/main/OtherDelphiSampleRepositories.md If you have a first project to create, give us some tips, we will find the available resources around it.

For starters, I recommend reading two FMX-related books: "Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey" by Andrea Magni, and "Fearless cross-platform development with Delphi" by David Cornelius. Together, they cover the most important parts of how FMX framework functions, and they both write about similarities and differences between VCL. I suggest you also play around and discover the RAD Studio Multi Device Samples, since they contain good chunks of code and UI components to see how to interact with FMX. If you have multiple devices with different platforms (Android, iOS, macOS), make sure you try the apps on all of them, to see how the deployment and functionality works across different platforms. As you start using FMX, I strongly recommend working with skia4delphi in every project. It is already integrated into FMX, but make sure to enable it in every project as it increases performance and provides you a ton of features that are missing in the stock FMX (such being Svg/Lottie support and right-to-left text). Good luck!

Hello This code: if MessageDlg('Welcome to my Delphi application. Exit now?', mtConfirmation, [mbYes, mbNo], 0, mbYes) = mrYes then begin MessageDlg('Exiting the Delphi application.', mtInformation, [mbOk], 0, mbOk); Close; end; shows icons in previous versions, but not in Delphi 12. This is too obvious to be a bug. Am I missing something? Thanks.

Any way to restore the previous behaviour? That's what users have seen for many years and what they expect