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Enumerate the members of interest and persist them. If these classes are really that simple, what is the difficulty? What are you stuck with? Using the RTTI? Or working with INI files?

Excel is a nice tool for simple everyday tasks. It becomes a support nightmare once it somehow gets involved in the business procedures, because of course everybody thinks he is an expert in Excel and knows exactly how to use it and how to change stuff. Sooner or later you will end up with a monster spreadsheet that nobody can understand. As to the topic: Either people know how to use spreadsheets, then they will probably already use it for that task, or they don't, in which case they most likely will be overwhelmed when you give them anything more than a table with a few sums. Will they pay you for support? By the hour? If not, don't use Excel. You will end up either spending a lot of unpaid time for support or they will hate you, because you don't.

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Why? You reduced my chances of winning

I just converted your code into an expert in revision #3418

What is GExperts? GExperts is a plugin for the Delphi IDE that adds many enhancements and also fixes some bugs. Which Delphi versions are supported? By the time of this writing GExperts supports Delphi 6 to 10.4 (with the exception of Delphi 8). GExperts releases always support/require the latest update for each Delphi version available at the time of the release. Where can download it? There is a link to downloads for the current and older releases on https://gexperts.dummzeuch.de I found a bug, what do I do? Please file a bug report. If you happen to have already fixed this bug, please also attach a patch or an archive with the changed source files. I have a brilliant idea for an improvement. What do I do? Please file a feature request. I have added some improvement to GExperts. Where can I submit it? Please also file a feature request and attach a patch or an archive with changed source files. Why shouldn't I report bugs an request features through this forum? I prefer to work on the actual program rather than being my own secretary. Taking posts from the forum and create the bug reports / feature requests is boring and time consuming work. I don’t want to do that work. Where is the source code? See compiling your own DLL. Why is GExperts still on SourceForge rather than on Github like all the other important projects? I happen to like SubVersion better than Git. Github does not support SubVersion (apart from a bridge with limited features). What if I have a question not covered in this list? There is a more comprehensive list of frequently asked questions on my homepage Additional questions can of course be asked in the forum.

I never understood the benefit of writing the ExplicitLeft / Top / Width / Height properties for TControl and descendants, which were added in Delphi 2007, to the dfm files. They store the control’s position and size before its Align property was set to something like alClient or alRight, so they can be restored later. That’s useful if you change these by accident or double click on the Align property to go through the possible values, but as soon as you save the form, you don’t really need them any more. Even worse, they seem to change often with no apparent reason and therefore clutter a dfm file’s diff with changes that nobody is interested in. read on in the blog post

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it's a 2 min copy&paste task from the link above, I can't see why would anyone reinvent the wheel just to avoid using the json library? Is it for some embedded computer?

Fixed. Changes will be in 10.4 Update 2.

Talk to other people and see what they want.

For example the same way as registry files do

I use Excel for my overtime balance sheet. I could have written a Delphi app, but Excel and SharePoint is very practical. I can edit the spreadsheet on the PC or on the phone on the go. I wonder, should I make another sheet to track my insomnia? 😛

I worked as the lead developer for seven years at a company that pretty much made it their business to move people from Excel to "something better". https://sigmaestimates.com/

I think that Excel may be the most overused application on PCs. My observation is that it has been used, and badly, in highly repetitive tasks which would be excellent candidates for replacement by dedicated applications. A spreadsheet is great for what if operations, and for quick and dirty manipulations of data. However, once people begin inserting formulas in many cells, things rapidly go off the rails, and repetitive labor is used in lieu of intelligent design. That said, I would make exceptions for tools such as the late, lamented Lotus Improv, and its successor, Quantrix, both far better suited to well designed analyses.

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https://gexperts.dummzeuch.de has a menu "GExperts" which looks like this ... ... and links to pages that in turn have links to: https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/bugs/ and https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/feature-requests respectively. The bug report / feature request dialog in GExperts also links there. Regarding pull requests: Since this is not github, there is no such thing. If you want to contribute, post a feature request or bug report and attach a patch or, if you prefer that, an archive with the the changed sources. If you plan to contribute regularly, you can get write access to the svn reqository. @Daniel Would it be possible to make a sticky post in this forum with this information?

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

If there is a demand for it (there is, I guess). Just give me a few days more.