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Hallo, for those unaware, Embarcadero has posted updates to the new offline Help for Alexandria 11.3. This is the download link for the files. http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/ Bye

Given your definition of a developer, writing requirements etc, what even is a Delphi developer. Aren't there just developers?

Thank you! I will take this matter to the management.

It is nice to have the ability to embellish with color and font size, but I agree - it sucks when people abuse that ability.

/on-topic This is application of "AI" in ways that I can like https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/03/23/vs-ai.aspx

/off-topic Me: I need help defusing a bomb AI: What kind of bomb Me: posts a series of photos of the bomb AI: Cut the red wire ... *BOOM* AI: ... after cutting the green wire

Thanks.. I'll be taking a look into what is happening

Okay after much trial and error, have exposed the events required WebExtended.7z

I created an application and put a listview to blank form. 1. With iPhone language is English, everything is ok: 1.1 Default ListView: 1.2 Customized Textcolor of item: 2. With iPhone language is Vietnamese, this sample has problem: 2.1. Default Listview: This app still run with incorrect controls 2.2 Customized listview (in design time) This app crashed when lauching... my simple code: Thanks!

I have opened an issue on https://quality.embarcadero.com (ID issue is RSP-41209) and wait... Thank you!

Do you used anything language specific ? I don't know Vietnamese languagem but I've noticed that several "regions" and "sub-dialects" might exist which sometimes might cause undesired behaivour. Like Swiss or Belgium language, can support various sub-dialects. I had a case where it worked for example on a Belgian phone under fr_be, but mishehaved under and nl_be.

Please make a minimal app that reproduce the problem, and create an issue on https://quality.embarcadero.com Remember to give a good step by step description of how/when it fails.

It seems someone lost their thread...

I'm so confused.

The new GExperts version still supports all Delphi versions back to Delphi 6 (with the notable exception of Delphi 8 ) and even the Delphi 11 version is no longer in Beta state. There are even a few new features: * Fast add mode for the Uses Clause Manager is back. * Uses Clause Manager: Units “System” and “SysInit” and those already in the uses list are marked with strike through font. * New functionality to import the favourites from the Wuppdi Welcome Page * Form Hotkeys expert now allows assigning hotkeys. * For the Edit Path expert one can now select the default platform / configuration to edit * Grep no longer stops when it encounters an error (e.g. a file cannot be found or opened). * A non feature: The Goto Previous/Next Modifications editor experts were removed because they caused more trouble than they were worth. Several of those were contributed by GExperts users. Thanks a lot guys (and one girl). And of course a few bug fixes. Read on in the blog post

I worry about the maintenance of applications using some of these cloud services. Sourcing a replacement library/component/backend between major releases or updates is a walk in the park compared to having to replace a cloud service possibly live or at least on the cloud service provider's schedule vs your own.

For sure! Who needs an AI to f... things up, when I am perfectly capable of f...ing stuff up myself? 😄

Especially when your own code doesn't work and you don't even know why, amirite? 😉

@hsvandrew There is no doubt "AI" (Machine Learning) will impact our work and business systems. What's wrong with me, is that I don't care for a deluge of "My AI generated code doesn't work. Why?" posts.

No recent updates, still pending review: https://github.com/indySockets/indy/pull/299 Correct. It is just built on top of Indy. Their website says: https://www.esegece.com/products/indy/features-overview I agree. As already pointed out, Indy's license does allow them to sell their derivative work. However, I don't like that their website is advertising their product as "Indy", it really should be advertised as "sgcIndy" instead. @esegece I would really appreciate it if you changed the product naming on your website accordingly, and actually explain on it what your product actually is. It is not Indy itself, it is a modification/addon to Indy. Also, your "Quick Start" guide suggests that you have made custom modifications to Indy's default OpenSSL SSLIOHandler, rather than introducing a new SSLIOHandler, as the pending pull request is doing. I would be interested in knowing what kind of modifications you have made to enable that in the default SSLIOHandler, given the extensive and breaking API changes that were introduced in OpenSSL 1.1.x.

There are two ways to declare variables inside a method or standalone procedure or function. Sherlock's reply shows the traditional way of declaring all variables in a single var section before the begin keyword that starts the body of the method. That has been part of the Pascal language since the time of its inception by Wirth; variables you declare this way are accessible in every place inside the body of the method. What you showed in your post is a fairly new way to declare variables inline, near the place of first use. In my opinion this should only be used if you need to reduce the scope of a variable to a specific block (e.g. a begin ... end block for an if statement or for loop). In fact in my real opinion it should not be used at all ; for one it is alien to the general structure of the language, and some IDE features do not work correctly (in the current version) when they are used, e.g. refactorings and things depending on the LSP server, like code completion. If you need a lot of variables in a method this is actually a "code smell", it indicates your method is too large and tries to do too many things. Refactor it to call several smaller methods that each do a single task. If that gets complex (i.e. you find you actually need a lot of methods to partition the code correctly) the solution may be to create a new class that does the required work internally and isolates it from the calling code. The array issue you mentioned probably has a different cause. If you declare a variable with a syntax like x: array [1..9] of variant; you are using what is called an anonymous type for the variable. This is allowed for classical variables declared at the top of the method but may not be allowed for inline variables. If in doubt declare a proper type and use that for the variable: procedure.... type T9Variants = array [1..9] of variant; var x: T9Variants;