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I've seen such pattern all the time, since many years already (it started right after the Delphi 2005 fiasco). I often agree that "rewrite our software in X" is usually a bad idea. And I've also seen that happen - many companies who tried to migrate to another platform failed, either spending lots of money, either not being able to develop a product as good as they have before in Delphi, and many other failure stories. If you think about it, even TMS history had similarities with that. We were a pre-Delphi 7 component vendor company, and after that period, many component vendors went doing something else of "migrated" to .NET. Of course there are successful stories of migration as well. But I understand the companies: I believe what scare them is Embarcadero behavior and their dependency. If they simply snap their finger and decided "no Delphi for you", many companies will have problems. But "no Delphi for you" I mean shutting down, not fixing bugs, not updating, whatever. It's a dangerous dependency. You might say "well, there are already doing that by not fixing bugs" and I would reply saying that that's the #1 reason I see companies *today* willing to migrate away from Delphi.

Hi all, I'm pleased to announce the new release (v1.7.0) of the Sempare Template Engine. It has been a while, and thought I'd just remind any users here about the project. Also included are some demos... for apps in general, there is a new helper class TTemplateRegistry, which should make things much easier to just get going and supports template reloading without restarting the app and can load templates from file, resources, or custom a loader. This takes some of the grunt work out of working with templates, besides just using them. More information is available in the docs on the repo. Some simple examples are provided to illustrate server side scripting. If you have any suggestions, or see any gaps, please feel free to provide comments on the issue tracker. - Demo using the Horse framework - Demo using WebBroker standalone console app New features: - improved support for comments - extends/block template support - improved whitespace removal - renamed demo app to Sempare Template Engine Playground - a useful tool for testing language features / templates. - added the Sempare.Template.RCGenerator project to help with creating resource rc files by scanning directories. - support multiple statements in a script block. e.g. <% print('a'); print('b') %> - additional context configuration - improved docs (improved navigation and added railroad diagrams to illustrate the grammar) Older release notes can be viewed on the releases page. Have fun.

No. IFDEF your code to call the relevant OS APIs directly (SHBrowseForFolder()/IFileOpenDialog on Windows, etc). Or else just make your own dialog/Form that iterates the filesystem (ie, via the System.IOUtils.TDirectory class) and display the contents as needed.