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I got it working now! First I changed the path setting back to the old value (on my machine it is "c:\Users\Uwe\AppData\Roaming\Parnassus OU\Common"). Then I copied the new DLL into that folder and renamed it to ParnassusCoreEditor_XRio.dll It seems that the DLL loader logic first looks for the "XRio" DLL and has a fallback to the original name. That way the different DLLs can coexist in the same folder and the XRio renaming allows for future version, too.

For the adventurous of you there is a new download for a MMX Beta version: MMX Beta Setup (current build is 2287) You won't find many new features. The main work was removing unneeded stuff, making use of things not available in older Delphi versions and reorganizing the code. So be prepared to find areas where I accidentally broke something. I would appreciate if you send bugs as email to support@mmx-delphi.de - that way they are automatically added to the bugtracker and are less likely to be forgotten. Feel free to also discuss them here, but even then send that email, so I don't have to duplicate it by hand. Currently there is only one new feature: The MMX Project Options settings have a new check box "Auto Format". If this is checked MMX will execute a format uses clause command every time it adds a new unit to the uses clause. Obviously this only works when the Group and sort uses option is enabled in the Sorting section. Unless something prohibits me to do so, I will announce new builds in this thread.

Perhaps people tend to prefer talking about things that don't work.

Hi, I've had lots of enquiries recently about when Bookmarks and Navigator will have a version available for 10.3 - they've been updated and new features added for every release until now. I'm please to say they will be available with the upcoming version of RAD Studio (10.3.1) which is coming out soon. The reason for for being included, and for the lack of news about a 10.3-compatible release in the past month, is that the plugins have been acquired by Embarcadero and so will now ship with the IDE itself. This is great news. I wrote the plugins originally to add features I wanted to the IDE, and hundreds (thousands, actually!) of developers have given great feedback. It's great to know the features will be available to everyone. In addition, due to the pressures of work, I haven't had much time to maintain or extend them recently, and so having them under Embarcadero's wing means they'll live on and be developed as part of Delphi and C++Builder itself. More info in the linked post! - David

Delphi/Rad Studio desperately needs a proper package/library/component manager. A package manager provides a standardized way of consuming third party libraries. At the moment, use of third party libraries is very much adhoc, and in many cases this makes it difficult to move projects between machines, or to get a new hire up and running quickly. Other development eco systems, like Ruby, .net and Javascript, recognised and solved this problem many years ago. Getting a Ruby, .net or Javascript project up an running, in a new working folder or new machine is trivial. Delphi Package Manager RFC

I was always pissed because of the property editor and its incapability to helping the work, so I made this extra filter-box. It has a little discomfort as the Property Editor steals the focus on the first click, I'll check what can I do if I find some time. Also, adding/deleting/storing the predefined filters are unimplemented yet. If someone feels the power to get it done, don't hesitate to apply.

I am happy with a certificate from ksoftware since a couple of years now.

Hi. You have to purchase a "Code signing certificate". Just Google the term and you will find many possible suppliers. Typically the certificate you purchase is valid for a number of years and then you have to renew it.

The DLL's documentation includes VB declarations. VB doesn't support cdecl at all, only stdcall. Also, I just found this, which clearly shows the DLL functions using CALLBACK for the calling convention. That is a preprocessor macro that maps to __stdcall.

IDE no longer flickers when you compile/build 😃 Probably the most important fixes and improvements are in iOS platform - including fix for compiling/linking 3rd party libraries against iOS 12 SDK. And then there is a bunch of bug fixes in other areas. So plenty of improvements, just not big ones. Or depends how you look at it, if your code was affected, then even single small fix can be great improvement.

You show decimal representation while version components correspond to nibbles of hex representation 11264dec = $2C00, so your version number is 2.12.0.0 (2.$C.0.0)

@David Millington Can you - or Embarcadero - please publish Bookmarks and Navigator 1.6 for older platforms? Or create a version that does not depend on share "Core" DLL? I think the community would very much appreciate it. I know I would.

Reason is, that the path to the core dll is common for all installed releases through a setting in the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Parnassus OU\Core] "Path"="C:\\Users\\Public\\Documents\\Embarcadero\\Studio\\20.0\\Experts" This always points to the last installation.

Very good initiative! The absence of dependency manager is a big problem of Pascal ecosystem. Not only CI scenarios suffers from it but library developers - there is no option to make a library dependent on another library as it become too complicated for most people to install and use it. So most libraries have *commons.pas units which contains pretty same purpose routines and classes. I thought about it a lot and the only reason why I not started such a project is that I believe it should be a community effort. Or we'll end up with another package manager without packages and users. I'm familiar with Maven from Java ecosystem and it does it's job well. Some quick thoughts: I see no much sense binding it to a particular IDE or even compiler. Let it work for FPC too! Components and packages are good but libraries are also good and much easier to manage. I think such a tools should have a command line based core with plugins for IDEs when needed. In that case CI server will be able to build project from scratch as it should be. Simple workflow - a project config file at input and a directory structure with library/package files at output. A package can be identified with an ID - something domain name-like works good here and partially solves problems with copyright etc. Please no GUIDs here! To identify a dependency seems to enough: (ID, version, compiler/platform, type) type is source or binary (dcu/ppu). Therefore, to use a library it's needed to create a config file and run the tool. After it ends its work there is a ready to use directory structure with all needed files and maybe even compiler config file with paths.

None of the patches fail to install. So there are no code changes in places that IDEFixPack patches.

Thanks for this blog post. Instead of just ranting about GetIt you start taking real actions. I appreciate that very much. Some ideas came already to my mind while reading, but I need to think a bit about them first. Regarding the design time components, I had tried to get this covered with my Package Magician mentioned in this blog post: There Can Only Be One – At a Time! While it works in the majority of cases, it heavily relies on the packages to be unloaded cleanly - sometimes not even standard Delphi packages can guarantee that. Unfortunately some of the big players in the package market seem to ignore that their packages my be unloaded and reloaded in the IDE. If you are interested I am open to contribute the code to your project. BTW, the link to the GitHub repository is broken.

I would like to see this plugin to get more support, now that code is already there, and installer, maybe, to speed up the start... Edit, how anyone can understand what I menat, coz I can't 😄 Would be nice to have installer for different IDE-versions, so it would be easier to start using it. I would suggest, if possible, add some standard colorizxation of properties, but it should be configurable, but editing INI-file would be OK, to me anyways. Because there are so many components and different properties, and some are interested in very different properties... -Tee-

You made a beautiful plugin and I really hope that YOU'll continue developing it.

I just hope this nice plugins will not be killed slowly by Embarcadero after integration in the IDE like they did with Castalia.

If you like my Forms Humanizer for Delphi IDE, I have something new for you and other colleagues. It's a new free plug-in for Delphi 10.2.3 IDE, which shows the status of opened files in the form of colored bars in the tabs above the editor: If you are interested you can download and test it here: https://sites.google.com/site/kryvich/kryvichs-editor-status-bars It is interesting that as follows from the article "New in 10.3: IDE UI Improvements in the Main Window", an appearance of the file tabs in the new Delphi 10.3 will change significantly:

@Attila Kovacs I updated the plugin for Delphi 10.3. BTW There are no file icons on the tabs anymore. Although the checkbox "Show image on tabs" in the settings remained.

For those who have installed this plugin: today, 11.11, KFH has been updated to version 1.1. Now you no longer need to convert the characters back to the #nnnn format before saving the changes. And yes, the Forms Humanizer supports not only VCL and FireMonkey forms and frames, but also data modules.

When you are viewing the contents of a form, Delphi substitutes Unicode characters with the corresponding codes in #nnnn format. (This is valid for Delphi 10.2.3 and earlier, I do not know how it will be in 10.3). Therefore, manual editing of text strings of form elements is very difficult. After installing the Kryvich's Forms Humanizer package in your IDE, you can use a simple keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Alt-H to "humanize" all the text strings in your form's editor. This means that codes like #nnnn will be replaced with the corresponding Unicode characters. You can download and test the plugin for free here: https://sites.google.com/site/kryvich/kryvichs-form-humanizer. Enjoy!