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I do not think so. I would rather have them post to a Forum Category of their own. Maybe another one under Third-Party. As long as they stick to the Delphi/C++Builder ecosystem it should be allowed on that Forum. It can be a good place for companies/individuals to post their DelphiC++Builder related products. Who knows, each post might turn into a solid discussion. I do not see @Serge Pilko post much after each "advertisement" and maybe if he has a place to advertise then he might engage more with those who ask questions. Who knows. I use the "Unread Content" links to see any new post an all forums and I already filter out what I am not interested in by skimming the subjects of each. Having an "advertisement" on that Forum Category pop up amongst new Unread Content will not bug me at all. But again; the moderators will know better than me what the intricacies of this community is.

I actually don't mind on-topic advertisements that much. After all, it's no different than 3rd party vendors announcing their libraries and not really participating beyond that. We got a couple of those already *cough* TMS *cough*. What I do mind is the dishonesty of pretending to discuss a topic but actually only drive traffic to their site in order to harvest leads. It's trolling. I agree that the topic was interesting, and I actually started to write a reply describing our own experiences and solutions, but then I noticed that neither the post nor the page that it links to actually contain any useful information; It's just a long collection of keywords and the whole message can be accurately summarized as "updating code can be problematic". It doesn't contain any actual solutions and some of the things that it says are just plain nonsense. The other "articles" posted here and on their site are just more of the same: Here are some words, and now enter your name and email to get access to an article with more information on this topic that we just failed to say anything useful about. Wow! F*ck 'em. I think we should. We don't allow spam and this is spam - even if it pretends to be something else.

Anyone else having a problem with this site running very slow lately?

I've done a binary search on my CommonCB bpl, lib and dcp files, and can not find any references to crypt32.lib. There is one reference to crypt32.dll which seems to be for CertOpenSystemStoreW, I'll search to make sure any reference goes. Before Embarcadero can investigate this, we need a C++ application that illustrates the problem. ICS does not have any C++ samples that work with modern compilers so I can not build any applications. This work will stall until ICS users that need C++ support can help. Angus

As always, our accounting dept needs in a new form of a customer's statement of account. P.S. @Tommi Prami: Thank you for reviving the DecimalRound lib by John Herbster.

TL;DR: Send us your email address so we can try to sell you our services. Am I wrong?

Why are you reawakening ancient posts, @AlexMrtn? And why post AI slop, @Die Holländer?

Yes, there is here.

I just released my NCG library as open source on GitHub. The full library description and documentation here. Discussions: I think it might be the only NGS Pascal library out there... The program works quite fine but it speed is not impressive... on the other hand is does not have any optimization and it is single threaded. If you have multiple patterns to look into the "big" image, each one could go into a thread. On a CPU with 12 cores, like mine, this code could easily behave as and OCR 🙂 Pre-compiled demo program also available. Enjoy. ____ Related to image processing: You will find also some basic image processing code in my LightSaber lib. There is another library that I will make it also open source that adds metadata to an image, so you can autorotate it based on exif, add "stars" to it (how much you like, it), pregenerated thumbnail (to save some time CPU next time you show it), etc. So, stay tuned... 🙂 ____ PS: On Git hub, vote only the libraries you like 🙂 🙂 🙂 I invest time in those that get votes 🙂

Just to illustrate the complexity of this in a different language, look at the danes that work with n times 20s and half-20s when above 50 and below 100, and they are not entirely consistent about it either. I am not a native dane, so there may be some mistakes - but this is my understanding of their classic spoken numbering. førr = forty = 40 fem og førr = five and forty = 45 half tres / femti = fifty = 3 x 20 - 10 = 50 seks og halv tres = six and fifty = 6 + (3 x 20 - 10) = 56 seksti / tres = sixty = 3 x 20 = 60 fem og seksti = five and sixty = 65 half firs / søtti = seventy = 4 x 20 - 10 = 70 åtti / firs = eighty = 4 x 20 = 80 half fems / nitti = ninety = 5 x 20 - 10 = 90 syv og halv fems = seven and ninety = 97 hundrede / fems = hundred = 5 x 20 = 100 277 = to hundrede og syv og halv firs = two hundred and seven and seventy = 200 + 7 + 70 Modern Danish does allow saying 55 = "femti fem" instead of "fem og halv tres" - i.e. more like the English spoken "fifty five", but the classic form is widely used. Modern 277 would be "to hundrede og søtti syv", like the English "two hundred and seventy seven".