Bill Meyer

4 minutes ago, Uwe Raabe said:

There is no Tortoise folk. That are two totally different tribes that just picked the same name.

Well, at least that makes some sense.

On 12/8/2020 at 10:12 AM, David Heffernan said:

Whilst I am a fan of TortoiseSVN, I am not a fan of TortoiseGit. Having a tortoise in the name isn't enough.

The difference between TortoiseHg and TortoiseGit makes me wonder what on earth the Tortoise folks could have been  thinking. But perhaps those who started with TortoiseSVN held similar thoughts on seeing TortoiseHg.

I am primed for change. I have lately been immersed in some serious issues in source control, and on searching for answers, found that some of these issues have had a longer life than many of the Delphi defects  which set our teeth on edge.

12 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

Even worse, they seem to change often with no apparent reason and therefore clutter a dfm file’s diff with changes that nobody is interested in.

And worse, these apparently random changes lead to increased noise levels in source control.

I think that Excel may be the most overused application on PCs. My observation is that it has been used, and badly, in highly repetitive tasks which would be excellent candidates for replacement by dedicated applications.

A spreadsheet is great for what if operations, and for quick and dirty manipulations of data. However, once people begin inserting formulas in many cells, things rapidly go off the rails, and repetitive labor is used in lieu of intelligent design.

That said, I would make exceptions for tools such as the late, lamented Lotus Improv, and its successor, Quantrix, both far better suited to well designed analyses.

5 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

I agree - unless we are talking about old-ish replies?
Personally, I am ok with a freeze after so many (days?) policy.

Not very old. Eight days. I don't see the reason for a freeze, apart from preventing exercises of ill temper. But those can be accomplished in new posts, too.

6 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

I know @Daniel tweaked something - but it was supposed to only affect the EMBT people's inability to edit their own posts?

I was prepared to consider that it was my ageing memory, but not being able to edit my own replies is illogical.

I noticed an error in a reply I made, and wanted to fix it, but Edit is not offered. Has something changed in the operations?

I see that I can edit in this post, so is editing enabled only on original posts? Not replies? Or only in a thread I create? I would think I should be able to edit anything I post....

13 hours ago, Vincent Parrett said:

We use ssh from our dev machines (we're all working from home in Canberra) to the server (in Sydney, 300km away) over vpn's and have not had any issues with large files.  

 

We do have some issues with mercurial and filename encoding on windows as it doesn't fully handle unicode properly on windows - there has been a  frustrating lack of urgency to fix this, since the main devs don't use windows. 

Interesting. It appears from my research that SSH is the key to this, but I also have read that SSH on Windows is a nightmare. Not being a networking guru, I am not altogether willing to engage in lengthy experiments which may simply prove to waste time.

1 hour ago, Vincent Parrett said:

for in house projects we use mercurial with tortoisehg (since 2013). 

We are using TortoiseHg, but I am finding problems with large file transfers. Extensive web searches have shown that the complaint has been around for years, and *may* be a Python/SSL issue. Or not. One of the few seemingly useful articles suggested disabling SSL 2.0. Did that, and initially, it was encouraging. But no, that was a fluke. Have you encountered this?

6 hours ago, JDS2018 said:

Hi

Can Someone help me on below

 

i need to make app count down for 1 Year

 

Let Say if i set Date for  2021 Dec 31

 

need to see  to the Set Date

How Many Year , months , Days , Hours , Mints, Seconds Left

 

 

 

 

You say you want a count down, but then you ask for an interval. Which is it that you need?

On 9/5/2020 at 12:24 PM, toms said:

That's called a "glitch"

You misspelled "feature."

27 minutes ago, Vincent Parrett said:

That's gold 🤣

I got  the whole story,  which took minutes to relate. I don't recall now how many names they thought up, only to find on a name search that they were taken. One at a time, and each time a trip to the registration office.

7 hours ago, Rollo62 said:

waden = want a damn exclusive name

Many years ago, I used a contractor whose company name was Solfan. (Sick Of Looking For A Name)

6 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

As the one on top: No comment ...

Kids!

28 minutes ago, David Heffernan said:

Is this code a bottleneck in your program? If not write it in the way that is easiest to read. How many times have I said that to you? Why would you choose to make your code hard to read for no benefit? 

Or as a friend advised me when I started learning to code, on my wood-burning CPU: First make it work, then worry about performance.

9 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

<rant>I know the help has improved but why the hell isn't there a link in the help from the ProviderFlags property to the type of the property. Don't they have computers that can do this stuff for them?</rant>

And other things, too....

1 minute ago, Mike Torrettinni said:

Nice try! 🙂

There is another one out there, which hasn't turned up yet. Something to the effect that 90% of programmers are wrong 90% of the  time about where to optimize. 

And as for one-liners:
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming. "
- C. A. R. Hoare - often misattributed to D. E. Knuth,who was himself quoting Hoare

On 11/9/2020 at 7:55 AM, Lars Fosdal said:

The lack of a progress indicator in the GetItCmd process is annoying.

And other details, such as when it "restarts" without first killing the IDE.

1 hour ago, sjordi said:

I actually found a workaround to let GExperts exit without problem: I install it first before all other FMX, VCL tools right after a clean RADStudio install.

I'll pass, but keep it in mind for the next time I have to start fresh. Too high a price just to lose that error.

On 7/22/2020 at 1:41 PM, sjordi said:

What is funny is that it states "Call DeactivateFontsInfo before calling this" for SynTextDrawer.pas line 475

Did someone try this?

DeactivateFontsInfo is not present in any code on my system, whether in GExperts source or SynEdit source.

And the shutdown error is present in 10.2.3, as well.

Uninstall/reinstall after all else is in makes no difference. As to FixInsight, the last release was 1 June 2020, and the issue is still present.

1 hour ago, limelect said:

call G:\Delphi Projects\GEXPERT\portableappstostartmenu\tags\1.0.0\buildtools\prebuild.cmd

The space in G:\Delphi Projects is a problem. You need your path in double quotes.

I hope someone can offer a solution, as I find some of the newly added shortcuts in Sydney conflict with some in my plug-ins.

3 hours ago, Mahdi Safsafi said:

I use external debugger heavily and all what I need to find references to a given function is the executable only ... map/pdb is just a sugar.  

If map wasn't that in your mind ... what's the actual one ?

if you parse all units you can than get the information.

As David, says, that is not enough. You need to parse all units, yes, but you need also to deal with many other issues. Think about like-named methods. Think about uses clauses. Consider the search path. If you want reliable results, there are many details which come into play.

Sounds like a wish list item for LSP.

40 minutes ago, Stefan Glienke said:

The description is in the paper and the reference implementation in c is in the very links on that page.

 

Attention though: there is xoroshiro and xoshiro in different variations.

Indeed, I had looked at the page with his implementation, but failed to open the page with the article. 😞 

Multitasking is best done by machine.