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Hi Team, I came across this by accident... http://www.delphiarea.com/products/delphi-packages/assistant It hasn't been touched in years. Does anybody know of something similar and more recently supported? I am using D10.4 att. Regards & TIA, Ian

A little off-topic but this depends. I prefer the scanner to be a keyboard because every client want to user their scanner and setup is very easy. Just plug the scanner into USB and is working. With VCL I use Form.OnKeyDown with Form.KeyPreview=True. Even in browser I use document.addEventListener("keydown", WAKeyDown). This way if the web app tab in the browser has focus I receive the input from the keyboard. No need to have a edit box in focus. And reading a serial port in Javascript is not so straightforward. But there can be a issue if you want to distinguish between a real keyboard and barcode reader.

How dare you! (That's for the young people here) David is what we call here, and very likely all around the world people call such guys, a K&R C beast from head to toe. David is still missing the 'Link with errors' feature to get his projects finished. I heard worse tongues whispering behind his back, that his Delphi programs consist of just one function starting with the keyword asm returning an invalid pointer to a corrupted heap or null/NIL to the command-line. In general I think he is one of the most advanced Delphi programmers visible and commenting in public on a regular basis, thus spreading wisdom and sophisticated knowledge all across the developer world. Let us enjoy his presence and listen to his words. Needless to say, since Nick turned on UAC on his PC almost nothing left to complain about remained. He's right, but on a contrary in IT a world that just sold it's future just around the corner the day before yesterday the difference betreen miles ahead or miles away is a pretty slight.

How it started. A brilliant tool that was miles ahead of anything else in its main sector. How it's going. A huge pile of bugs that is falling further and further behind the competition.

I know I am late to the party, but you might try the attached package for Delphi 10.4.1. It uses the hooking code from Andreas Hausladen's VclFixPack v1.4 to patch the TControl.DefineProperties method to a modified code, which does not write those Explicit* properties to the DFM file. Unpack the zip archive, open DControlsFix.dpk in Delphi 10.4.1, compile & install. There is nothing to customize. If this package is installed, the patch is active. If you like to get the default behaviour back, just uninstall the package. Use at your own risk 😉 DControlsFix.zip