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  1. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Delphi 12 is available

    MS finally listened to demands and now you can create self-sufficient C# apps (with all required DLLs located near the EXE). The same could be with Java, just use a starter that would set path to local JRE.
  2. Fr0sT.Brutal

    detecting app clone on android

    Why would you need that? Just let the user install your app as it wants to. I'd throw away any app that would do such dirty things leaving 1-star review at market.
  3. I like mutex approach more (with one little difference that I use events). It will work for any application while Findwindow is for GUI-only (or you have to create a dummy window just for that). For some apps I allow running from different paths so I'm retrieving folder of Application.ExeName and adding it to event name.
  4. What I miss in Delphi is caused mainly by buggy/awkward implementation. Structure view is unusable as it always expands fully what is especially annoying when you want to navigate between classes (luckily they added navigation combobox). Method generation always uses alpha ordering while I prefer grouping by meaning. As for inlay hints, I find them handy for dynamic languages but never felt the need for compiled ones. 2c's for Delphi compared to another editors... Currently I use VSCode more than RAD studio and features I really miss from the latter are 1 - subject-aware folding. In Delphi I can fold regions, methods. Other editors I tried only have structure-aware folding - fold level 1, 2, etc. It is really boring and unhandy 2 - sync edit (Ctrl-Shift-J) of a selected fragment. VSCode only can rename a variable (but it must be declared somewhere) or multi-edit but that's not the same.
  5. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Python <-> Delphi

    Consider using WebDriver approach with browser running in headless mode
  6. Fr0sT.Brutal

    TCP ping

    He's doing it right testing both "device is up & software is listening" at the same time. Nice thing with async networking is that you can start many connections simultaneously and react for connection/timeout in event handlers.
  7. Fr0sT.Brutal

    ICS V9.0 announced

    Works for me
  8. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Delphi 12 is available

    Oops my fault. Debian has no order in names. But Android and Ubuntu have. However Ubuntu changes names inside major releases which is also confusing. Example of insane naming is also MS Windows. 3.1, 95, 98, Millenium, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11, ... In the same time server versions are named after years so you also have to remember - kernel of which "user" version has this server version 20XX?
  9. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Delphi 12 is available

    If only they chose city names sorted like do Google Android, Debian, Ubuntu... but no, pure random. And ridiculously loooong name for 11. I have some really wonderful options for Succ(v12) releases: Schmedeswurtherwesterdeich Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch Taumatawhakatangi­hangakoauauotamatea­turipukakapikimaunga­horonukupokaiwhen­uakitanatahu and many more really cool names here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_long_place_names
  10. Fr0sT.Brutal

    ICS V9.0 - mobile platforms

    Ah, that one. Workaround in fact. Well, you're right here - each approach has its pros and cons. So it's nice when you can choose
  11. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Delphi 12 is available

    Easy, just add some anime kitties and giant robots to win their hearts! Or... giant kitty robots!
  12. Fr0sT.Brutal

    get gdi render output of invisible form

    Haven't tried it myself but try moving a window beyond the screen (Window.X := Screen.X + someMargin)
  13. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Delphi 12 is available

    Release it as 13.9 for double-hit!
  14. Fr0sT.Brutal

    Design of client/server application

    WebDAV is just a protocol. You'll have both sides of your channel custom so you can extend it for your needs.
  15. Fr0sT.Brutal

    ICS V9.0 - mobile platforms

    What's the 2nd solution? I guess it's not free? Well, the benefit is native implementation, free from insane upgrade policy of OpenSSL; moreover, RTL socket/http uses it as well, and so does default cURL build. To add more, there are some OpenSSL forks/analogs now (WolfSSL, BoringSSL) which could be more suitable for some needs. Abstraction of TLS layer would be awesome. Extending the subject wider, I periodically dream of a universal handler stack in TWSocket to enable things like Socket.handlers := [ ThrottleHandler, TLSHandler, HTTPTunnelHandler, TLSHandler ] (enable throttling, connect via TLS to HTTP tunnel proxy and do TLS connection to remote server) that would provide a simple interface for any combination of protocols. That way TTLSSocket would be nothing more than TWSocket with auto-created TLSHandler. Want cascade of 5 TLS HTTP tunnel proxies? No problem! Want HTTP inside MsgPack inside Protobuf inside TLS-encryption? Easy. Want custom encrypted protocol? Just write handler. Please don't take this as criticism, I admire your efforts to keep ICS up-to-date.
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