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  1. David Heffernan

    Delphi + Windows + isWine

    What actual problem does this cause? How does this affect what you do?
  2. David Heffernan

    Delphi + Windows + isWine

    I personally want my program to run on Wine. Seems like Crowdstrike is the problem. Do you sign your executables?
  3. No, they are fundamentally different things in terms of implementation.
  4. David Heffernan

    Program works fine but why?

    You might want to start with a beginners book to learn C++ that will take you through all of this learning. And you definitely don't want to be using character arrays when strings exist.
  5. David Heffernan

    Vcl.Themes different in debug vs release

    Your job is to gradually remove code from your app until the behaviour is the same as a simple example. Good luck.
  6. Probably the benchmark code is not telling you anything useful
  7. David Heffernan

    Earlier version of C++ Builder program

    Imagine we are starting at the beginning of this post. What are we to make of what is in this page alone?
  8. David Heffernan

    C#.NET to Delphi code conversion help needed

    Remove packed and it's probably alright.
  9. David Heffernan

    filenames with unicode chars

    The OP
  10. David Heffernan

    filenames with unicode chars

    Recurring theme here is that you think that everything else is at fault when you can't achieve things that others can. Perhaps you need the curiosity to ask why this is.
  11. David Heffernan

    for loop variable value after the loop

    Doesn't always exit with a Break
  12. David Heffernan

    Type inference in assignment but not comparison??

    I actually don't know how that is interpreted by the compiler
  13. David Heffernan

    Type inference in assignment but not comparison??

    This is a really good point, and very nicely expressed. Essentially the whole thing boils down to Delphi literals having ambiguity of type. Sets and arrays use the same syntax. For integers, what type is 1, how can I make sure that it is signed or unsigned, 8 bit, 16 bit etc. And 1.0, is that single or double? Why can't I state this explicitly. Other languages have these facilities, Delphi lags behind in this area.
  14. David Heffernan

    Type inference in assignment but not comparison??

    Not sure who Dave is.... Delphi doesn't know that the type of the thing to the right of the equality operator is an array, it thinks it is a set. That's why you get the error. You might not like this, but this is just how it is right now. From the language perspective, there is clearly some magic disambiguation applied in the case of the assignment operator that isn't applied elsewhere. As Remy says, all you can do is to open a ticket. Shooting the messenger isn't going to get you anywhere. But even if the code did compile, what would you want it to do? For dynamic arrays, like other reference types, the equality operator = means reference equality. But I suspect that you would want value equality. So even if this code ever compiled, I don't think it would do what you want to do. In which case you will need to implement a method or function to perform value equality testing, and so the topic becomes somewhat moot.
  15. David Heffernan

    Backward compability

    I don't think your expectations are reasonable. You can't expect to mix and match Delphi versions like this. When you are ready to upgrade, do it in a coordinated and unified manner.
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