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I have created library for Delphi-Console-Applications Supports Windows 11 (and earlier from XE5?) Replaces CRT Unit - crt.pas Can be used to write modern and appealing console applications. Should allow older (legacy) source code (Borland Pascal 7.0) to run under Windows. Unicode-Support (including e.g. chinese characters) many more features - see GitHub https://github.com/playcom-de/Console I hope this is helpful for someone. Question, suggestions and error reports are welcome.

PyScripter has reached 1.5 million downloads. This is just from Sourceforge and does not include downloads from Embarcadero, many other download sites and forks such as GuiPy. What is quite satisfying is that there is no country in the world without downloads. Greenland for instance, a vast country with a population of only 56000, has 7 downloads.

PyScripter, an Open Source, freely available Python IDE written in Delphi, has reached 1 million downloads from Sourceforge. This is in addition to many millions of downloads from its earlier home at the now defunct Google Code and an unknown number of downloads from other distribution channels. Historic note: The initial motivation was to build a good scripting solution for Delphi applications. About 20 years ago Microsoft was still promoting ActiveX scripting and Windows Script Engines (such as vbScript and jScript) as the way of building scripting solutions for Windows applications (one of many Microsoft technologies that was all but abandoned). At that time Python was relatively unknown, but it so happened that it was available as a Windows Script Engine and I looked into it. I loved the clean syntax, the expressiveness and conciseness of the language. Other things I liked were duck typing, batteries included, strong object orientation (everything is an object) etc.. The first iteration was an IDE (editor/debugger) for ActiveX Script Engines. But there were many bugs and limitations of Active Scripting both on the Microsoft/Windows side and the Python side. I then came across Python4Delphi which at the time was maintained by a Canadian developer Morgan Martinet. I started contributing to that project and later become its main maintainer, when Morgan's interested shifted to other things. I also developed a simple Python IDE which was named PyScripter and was originally distributed alongside Python4Delphi. There was very few Python IDEs available at the time and somehow the project became known in the Python community and instantly popular. For me, developing PyScripter was just a hobby, but I received a lot of encouragement and kept on improving it. I was also making some income from donations and Google AdSense. Both PyScripter and Python4Delphi were later moved to Google Code. Python popularity was steadily increasing and at the peak of PyScripter's popularity around 2010, there were hundreds of thousands of downloads the days following each new release. More recently as we all know Python became one of the most popular programming languages, but at the same time there was strong competition to PyScripter from freely available commercial grade IDE's such as Jetbrains PyCharm and Microsoft's Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. PyScripter was almost abandoned when Google Code closed down due to my frustration, but after a couple of years of inactivity the project was moved to Github and development resumed. Downloads are available through Sourceforge, since 2016. Through the years PyScripter has kept a large and loyal group of followers. I get many comments along the lines "I have tried VSCode, I have tried PyCharm, but I keep going back to PyScripter". PyScripter is also quite widely used in many Universities for introducing Python to students. And almost 20 years after its first release, PyScripter is still going strong...

Why? For an import lib, you should instead simply create a new import lib file for C++Builder using the IMPLIB (32bit) or MKEXP (64bit) tool on the DLL itself. There is no point in converting import libs, only static libs.

The demos must be started as Windows-Consolehost not Windows-Terminal. You are able to change this at windows-settings "privacy and security for developers". This is a known issue I am working on. I welcome any help on how to accomplish this.

yes, my library back then, poked right into the videomemory. clocking the windowing functions with a analog stopwatch from my father, checking if i could find somewhere to speed the things up. (my father thought i was somekind of idiot, clocking the timing of putting thousands of random rectangles on the screen 🙂, but then he also was scared when i took his 8000$ company laptop apart 🙂 )

SVN and the overnight zip include changes that allow ICS SSL servers to use certificates from the Windows Certificate Store instead of using disk files. Apart from rebuilding, no code changes are needed, simply add one line to the server configuration file. The HTTP Rest sample will be updated shortly to use a client certificate from the Windows Store. There is now a simple method LoadOneFromStore that creates a bundle in a TX509Base with certificate, private key and intermediates that can be used in any ICS projects, it can be tested in the PemTool sample. Angus

I only work with Delphi and Windows platforms, any support for C++ or other platforms in ICS is dependent on other developers, and such contributions are very rare. C++ support will cease unless someone comes forward to take responsibility for it. I have no commercial need for mobile platforms, and my own requirements are the driving force behind my contributions to ICS over the last 20 years. Angus

iOS betas hardly change dramatically over the time. By the way, final release is in like 8 weeks. Having a development tool that is now unable to produce working executables, that is worrying, and not wasted time.

It's odd that the emba tool won't work directly with platform standard import libs. You'd think they'd find a way to do that.

Marketing. I don't think they originally intended it as such but since it at best doesn't hurt performance, that's what it became. Yes, it does. Maybe now would be a good time to read up on what virtual memory is. You don't have to allocate beyond physical memory before virtual memory comes into play. You just have to allocate beyond the process' working set. The working set is the part of your process' virtual memory that is backed by physical memory. The working set can grow and shrink depending on memory access and global resource pressure but there's always an upper and lower limit. Of course, it's a bit more complicated than that (there are more layers than what I have described) but that's the basic overview. In general, I would recommend that one doesn't try to outsmart things one doesn't fully understand. Be it threading, memory management, or women 🙂

Yes, I have to freedom to change the data structure. My first goal was to get the 20-year old source code working on D11 without any errors. That goal is already reached. Now I can focus on optimizing the source code to modern standards. I have to do some research to bridge this 20-year gap 😅 Bart

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