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Sure var lambdas : string = 'λλλ'; python.someFunc(PChar(lambdas)); 🙂 Jokes aside - what you mean by lambdas? Inline functions?

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Ah, you're right. Nice, the compiler is a bit more clever than I thought

No, this was a non-DB-related question, just curiosity. While there is IsLetter function, it checks for all letters in Unicode table so I wondered which constructions are popular for the purpose. Yes, that's possible. CharInSet won't check whether a char is ASCII or not and codepage-dependent cases are possible that won't produce neither compile-time messages nor run-time errors. Alas, I can't imagine how they could force the check. Runtime exception in such a basic function doesn't look good Sounds nice, create request to QC? 🙂

If that handle is WinAPI handle then yes, you can replace that loadbitmapfromfile with call to your DLL returning the handle

Have you tried pressing Inspect button?

Some forums I lived at red color was only allowed for moderators. That was very good rule.

Form.Position = poDesigned?

I'd too expect it to be instance method. No string in Delphi could be null in fact so there's no sense in static class method. Probably they simple copypasted it from .Net which has nulls and thus such function couldn't be an instance method?

They couldn't. Set is limited to 255 elements, so CharInSet only works for Ansi sets (I'm sure you know that 😄 ) Btw, I wonder how do you check whether a char is a letter of a some language (f.ex. Norwegian, German)? They have not only latin chars but some additional which can't be declared with simple 'a'..'z'. You have to add them explicitly, like 'a'..'z', 'æ'?

If you have no control over cobol app and it only reads from file, there's little you can do except hooking CreateFile & FileWrite WinAPI's. Or even use filesystem driver to represent a piece of RAM as a drive but that unlikely is an option. In theory, if you're lucky and the app uses only CreateFile without additional file-specific checks, you can feed it with path to a pipe which you will create and control.

Apple knows best

I think Anders meant pointer to WinAPI bitmap handle

Just launch the thread and let it work, catch the event when it's done.