Fr0sT.Brutal

https://github.com/Fr0sT-Brutal/awesome-pascal#compression 😉

I too came to this solution and changed almost all "[1]" occurrences in my projects

Unless OpenSSL abandons W7, missing OS support of TLS1.3 is quite insignificant IMHO. Probably only actual for C# apps that use TLS layer provided by OS. P.S. I still use W7 as my main dev machine. I really dislike some dumb limitations of new flat UI (nonconfigurable 1-pixel-wide window borders on hi-res display and a touchpad?! Come on MS are you kidding?)

There are some other zip implementations in my awesome list. I'm happy with FWZip, however I only needed very basic actions

Yes. The only solution is to start the enum from 0 (why using 1 as starting value?)

@Stefan Glienke I must have expressed a bit unclearly. By "Move" I meant any implementation not only the RTL one.

Scintilla.

Embarcaderassing

Huh, I was struggling the same task these days. In general (IDK about ClientDS particularity) the scheme for datasets is: - Copy FieldDefs from source dataset (or get them from DB if connected directly) - here ReadOnly appears - Create Fields based on Defs - here the field gets ReadOnly flag - Copy data values In theory, you can plug between #1 and #2 to modify Defs. In practice, it depends on how the component is written. It could skip buffer allocation for modified values so the changes won't be saved. In my case I tried many things to add modifiable custom field to ADO query but was fed up and used memory dataset (which I also had to update for things to work)

What else could be said for post of "I have a problem pls solve it completely for me" kind? If the one who needs solution does zero for the problem, why someone else should do more?

Try DelphiDistiller

They made x-platform sockets and http clients that use system facilities for TLS so the most requirements are covered. Even Go and Node don't provide much more

That's nonsense. Nobody forbids you to install a software where you like (as long as it's good software; MSVS is NOT). Obviously any location other than PF should be protected by an admin or left as is accepting all the risks.

FastMM has optimized Move routines as well. While generic Move is pretty fast, it can't squeeze the maximum because of generosity. The best perf could be achieved with specially prepared memory blocks - aligned, non-overlapping, not locked. FastMM has some specific Move's optimized for specific blocks

Pretty smart! File redirect is like Git-config's include but pulling specific sections is a more powerful feature. This is good but requires an account for each user. Moreover, in theory there could be some settings that affect pre-connect state

Classic holy war "self-contained bundle aka portable vs scattered installation according to OS rules". I prefer the first. Ideally both options should be available to have to choose from

That's because 64-bit operations for x32 occupy 2 registers. More or less simple with addition, terrible with division. However, speedup with 32-bit num is unexpected.

Yep, this generic approach is OK, however it includes managed record (which pulls hidden finally section with it) and creation of new record for every comparison. Depending on usage scenario this could slow things down. I suppose if creation of a short string was critical, any little detail could also matter. BTW, Mark, ensure your dictionary check routine has no hidden finally section (set breakpoint to the final "end" of the method, wait for break, open ASM view and look for "handlefinally"). It could significantly reduce performance on frequently called functions so should be removed where possible.

Suspended creation is Windows feature that they reflected 1:1 to class API but other OS's do not provide it so they had to imitate it via mutexes.

it's a hash table so the string is only needed for computing the hash. Probably you can compute the hash by yourself and provide it to class method. Hash is computed by FComparer.GetHashCode(Key) that you can provide in C-tor if TDict. However, you'll have to define your own TKey instead of string (record with pointer to 1st char and length perhaps) and hashing method. Or, you can use string hashes as keys and search like this FTokenDictionary.TryGetValue(HashFromPChar(FTokenStart, FTokenLength), Result)

Replacing shell is quite common operation, back in XP days it was pretty popular ("Aston shell" IIRC). All Win-based terminals still use this "kiosk mode". However, I doubt the launcher will be the most complicated task - adaptation of apps will. So for the start I think usual explorer and shortcuts will be enough

For me the most promising feature is the ability to link C libs statically. I'd love to have self-contained Delphi EXEs with OpenSSL, for example.

Launch bg thread with message pump. Look for demo example named "...IcsThreadDemo" or smth alike

More likely firewall blocks your custom app but allows built-in telnet

You should investigate at what exact phase the error occurs. Connection to host:port? Sending request? Receiving request? Processing request?