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Marco's announcement on the new blogs site: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-10-4-1-has-been-released/ Updated my wiki page with info on 10.4.1: https://github.com/ideasawakened/DelphiKB/wiki/D27.SYDNEY.10.4.1.0 RAD Studio 10.4.1 has a strong focus on quality improvements. Key quality focus areas include: IDE Delphi Code Insight (LSP) Parallel Library SOAP & XML C++ Toolchain FireMonkey VCL Delphi Compiler iOS Deployment New Features Packages can now have an automatic version suffix (instead of manually updating and specifying the right version suffix with each new release) New reader-write lock implementation via the new TLightweightMREW record Faster and more lightweight than the TMultiReadExclusiveWriteSynchronizer (TMREW) Works across all platforms (TMEW was a simple critical section on some) Much improved support for multi-monitor desktop layouts and 4k monitors The floating form designer has been removed The Broadcast to devices option is now off by default Platform Support Deployment to Windows Server 2019 now supported The LSP based Code Insight much improved from its initial 10.4 release

Delphi-DirectUI is what I found today, it's a new set of nice-looking UI controls based on Graphics32. Unfortunately, it's not open-source nor free. See the attached screenshot.

Seriously...

Why is that man trying to swallow an invisible shoe?

Sounds more like current git workflow is done wrong when there is a struggle with 3 people trying to use it - because git was exactly invented for a distributed team (linux kernel). There are several models out there that have pros and cons - the famous one from over 10 years ago (which I saw had a note added earlier this year): https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ This one refers to another one: https://guides.github.com/introduction/flow/ And since gitlab is a competitor to github they also have their model: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/gitlab_flow.html Read up on those - try to understand - identify which one fits your situation best and then come back asking some specific questions

Unless you are some sort of color blind? I also use color, but where there is a critical significance that requires attention, I usually add an icon or symbol in addition.

When I need to design UI that is rather unique (or I've never done before), I always try to get ideas form existing tools. I just search google for keywords that make sense and look through screenshots of tools, software, web apps... sometimes I combine ideas to fit my needs. I try to avoid 'wizard' style where each step is it's own tab, that means in step 2 I don't see info from step1 or step 3. i prefer more info vs less info. The immediate idea I got from your description was 2 VistualTreeViews (VTV), 1 on the left (25% width) as work-flow (steps) and main VTV (75%width ) with details. That way you can see at which step of the overall l process you are at this moment, while the details of current step are in the main VTV. And VTV is very customizable, icons, check boxes, combo boxes...

Me too. Also funny one. Especially that you don't understand why would one use an online service to make a complementary/secondary cold-backup in a different geographical location, then you answer your own question in 2 minutes with the burglars.

It was outside of the IT area, a real-world thing. Unfortunately I can not remember (happened a long-long time ago) but for example: - I have a personal problem with John Doe, and he writes an application - Since I don't like him, I start to talk sh*t and discourage people from using his product - Everyone is still using it. Then, it turns out it has a bridge to some inconvenience I faced for years - I start to use it because of that minor thing and it turns out the application is pretty good - Now, try to explain to everyone you discouraged why exactly you are now a user too - ??? - Profit Fortunately, the only thing I achieved is my own humiliation, no legal stuff. It was still a remarkable experience.

I have multiple projects that are heavily dependent on DWScript and I like to think I'm a bit of a DWScript expert after having used it for so many years (since 2002). However... It's a bit hard for me to judge if the implementation is "very clean" because the source is close to unreadable to me. The architecture might be solid but I have spent hours trying to solve problems by reading the source and the non-standard code style and the lack of comments in the code means it's futile to try to learn from the source. It has improved since DWS2 but not enough. Another problem is that there's zero documentation and the examples only covers very basic use cases. So expect a steep learning curve. Finally there's no community and it's maintained by a single person who doesn't seem interested in letting anyone else work on it. But apart from all that I can also recommend DWScript. Here's an IDE for DWScript if you need it: https://bitbucket.org/anders_melander/dwscriptstudio

And now demo.exe is running you

I am struggling with the comments in the source code 😄

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/combaseapi/nf-combaseapi-coinitializeex Anyway, that's on the client and it shouldn't affect the server.

CoInit/CoUnInit should run only once per thread.

Beside all the structural discussions behind, I'm a huge fan of color information in a UI, like o Prepared o On-boarded o In Progress o On hold / problem / issue o Waiting for more info o Pending signoff o Completed  Which is able to give you in a dashboard the information of the situation immediately. All green lights is a no-brainer, it took only milliseconds to recognize this state.

I'm doing incremental backup and I rotate media every one or two weeks so it's not that bad. The "other house" is right next to the main building and the cabinet is in my workshop, right next to where I keep the beer, so it's nice to have an excuse to "go file the backup".

My wife already looks suspicious when I tell her we take the car to the mechanic and it's going to be expensive. I don't even want to imagine convincing her why I need a fireproof safe, which costs triple the amount than our car. At home you'll quickly get bored of rotating backup mediums and locking them away. You'll want your backup equipment INSIDE the safe so it can do everything automated. As safes SHOULD act as a perfect Faraday-cage, unless they include a fireproof RJ45 socket wired from the outside in... I'm not saying anything more. I'll trademark this stuff 😄

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@pyscripter Sometimes Im wondering what made Python so popular in the first place. Now I know, it was PyScripter IDE

I think you need to post some more code and some more details. Does the OleCheck ever raise an exception? If so how do you handle this exception? Are you sure that you shouldn't be using COINIT_APARTMENTTHREADED instead? Are you sure there's a CoUninitialize for every CoInitializeEx? How does the server disconnect the client? Have you tried debugging the server to determine what it's doing when it "hangs"?