Fr0sT.Brutal

It's possible to have a separate VM for each RAD version and have them run, execute tests and shutdown automatically if there's a need for this. Of course this means more time, space and CPU usage but OTOH there won't be any isolation issues with overwritten env vars and other similar stuff. There are also portable RAD studio packs, not sure about their legality though but if they only work as launcher for original binaries you can use that launcher with your legal installation.

Copy the values either in c-tor once or in some init method periodically. I'd start the task step by step: - group the standalone globals into logical structures, f.ex., one record Globals with subrecords - examine each usage of these globals (now easily locatable by name search - that's why Globals record!) and reduce access by extending c-tors and so on

Why not override DoDrawText and do whatever you want (glow effect)?

And don't forget to make it 64-bit otherwise rollover will bite very hard

HTTP sometimes mimics file structure but it isn't, that's why the confusion. Request for "example.com/foo.bar" could be handled by server as "print("this is foo.bar") executed on-the-fly. "example.com/goods/shoes/male" could turn into "DB select from goods where cat=shoes and sex=male". So you need proper URLs (sometimes called endpoints) to execute upload. It's possible they're implemented as "example.com/file.ext" but usually they look like "example.com/upload"

I'm afraid there's no 100% reliable solution. There always could be points where atomicity could be broken (print succeeded - app crashed - oops)

Just get UTC time itself

Quite logical 🙂 "expect an error"

Why not get system (UTC) time via GetSystemTime?

Hei/Len + Ctrl-Space for the rescue. Key words are harder. Sometimes I find myself typing "funciton"

Well, the context is D/BCB components so the hint is applicable. Open RCData, search DFM, look for corresponding line like "someTable: TBlaBlaSuperTable" then google the class name "TBlaBlaSuperTable"

Alas, Templates sometimes don't work when they're needed to. F.i., I created "fmt" that expands to "Format(...)" which is VERY boring to type every time. But "Log(fmt" won't get expanded even manually with Ctrl-J so this template is useless.

No, I'm not considering perf at all, just the resulting code. I just don't see benefits in adding more abstractions on top of what could serve well as-is.

You can open the binary in any resource editor and explore DFM resources

Yep but they all just build unneeded levels of abstractions on top of simple things. IMHO. Your case, as I understood, doesn't need dynamic thread pool or constant task streaming and so on. However, if you want to use OTL, I think the simplest one is the best.

Application.ProcessMessages looks quite nice to push it everywhere thus achieving responsible main thread while doing things but it's highway to hell. F.ex., you're not insured from 2nd TMain.SaveTheProcessed run while 1st one still in action. Then, you don't need most of these Delay at all as operations the procedure performs are synchronous. And you have too messy proc - divide it to "wait for file" subproc and "send file" subproc, remove waitings and then test...

Hmm, it's rare to see SO many bad practices in one piece of code...

From the quick glance at the code there's no explicit conditions that disable images with this option set. Probably you should checkout the latest VTV sources, create MVP and post an issue to VTV repo @ Github

I'd use "task list + N worker threads" abstraction. N is known beforehand as "req limit" option so you just create N threads and let them consume tasks from a list and stop when all tasks are done. Main app checks all the threads for finish state on timer. Simple, clean, reliable.

Well, that construction was logical (if command is not recognized, check its text verb) and faster (only do string compare for unknown ones)

Hmm, I probably will act as Cap'n Obvious but why not check timings of parse/read & list fill code separately (with primitive gettickcount)? That's what I'm doing first before unpacking serious tools.

Well, with "actual" I wanted to say non-officially-deprecated.

If it is a Memo or other tstringlist property, the image should be OCR-ed and resulting text should be pasted instead

Yep, what could be better than explicitly creating a canvas and icon for every created form 😄

At least in FB2.5 only SYSDBA could view all attachments, other users only see their own connections which is useless. To get more accessible connection list, you need onConnect & onDisconnect triggers that would add/remove records from a table