David Heffernan

Cloud HSM seems like a convenient solution. Seems expensive though.

They shipped a USB token which arrived next day. And for EV they just called me to confirm some details I provided on my order. Didn't seem very enhanced at all.

You've got some memory corruption or broken interface handling code. It could be pretty much anywhere. You might get a better steer using FastMM with full debug options.

I got an EV cert from globalsign recently and it only took a couple of days from start to finish.

OP doesn't want to run multiple machines. It's just one dev that wants to get rid of ancient Win7 laptop. My point is that you can just install D7 on Win 11. If that is helpful.

That's not what we are talking about. We are talking about running the ide on Windows 11.

Yeah. You just ignore those and generally install to a write able directory, or put a permissive acl on the installation directory. It's been that way for many windows versions too.

Really. I'm pretty sure you can run Delphi 7 on Win 11.

They tend not to break things. Also, ignoring affinities would utterly break aot of software, and break some software that set affinities correctly. So, no, this isn't a risk.

Seems unlikely that MS would break its system because some people write crap programs.

Is it really the best way to go delphi to python to octave? Must be possible to go straight to octave but far better to use python rather than octave/matlab.

Not much use for a REPL

It would be cool to look at the Wine implementation of StrCmpLogicalW and port that to Pascal once and for all for a cross platform implementation. https://gitlab.winehq.org/wine/wine/-/blob/master/dlls/kernelbase/string.c#L1298 Looks kinda simple really

Blitting a record to a binary file makes it more tricky. Nobody but you can really know what to do. Perhaps you just carry on and suppress the warnings after localising them. But why go to Delphi 11 then? If you carry on as you are you can't do Unicode. Maybe you don't need international language support. Maybe you don't mind having pre determined max text lengths. But if you want to go beyond these limitations it's going need some thought and design.

No. Its perfectly possible to save any string type to a file.

Why are you using shortstring? Even in D7 that was not recommended.

Again that's not accurate. Imagine, say, 7 MDI child windows, tiled. You literally can't get splitters in a grid as 7 is prime. I'm not sure anybody that's posted in this thread understand MDI tiling.

What I don't get in all this is that MDI child windows aren't docked. They are typically tiled. Yes there is cascade but surely nobody wants that. Tabbed is clearly superior to cascade. So any discussion about MDI like GUI without true MDI needs to look at tiling.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5134712/how-to-get-the-sort-order-in-delphi-as-in-windows-explorer

Here's my MDI app How do I do this with tabs, bearing in mind I want to see both the child windows together.

This is a bit different from what were are talking about in the other topic. MDI is very different from tabbed.

People do see it. If you think society has eliminated discrimination you are deluding yourself. People with privilege find it harder to see discrimination because they don't experience it. I really don't know what to say about this. You think that the slanting towards women in lower paid jobs indicates a great success for equality.

No but I never claimed that. Maybe. But it could well be a factor. It doesn't need to be the only reason for it to be a problem.

This is classic correlation / causation territory

How did you determine that this difference was due to gender and not some other reason? Personal anecdotes prove little. The fact that your co-workers didn't experience discrimination doesn't mean that others didn't. I mean, by definition, if any did then they wouldn't be your co-workers. I find it so wearing that people like us with our professional work colleagues and life styles think that discrimination doesn't exist because we don't see it in our lives.