David Heffernan

Surely it's If string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(someStr) then like in .net

I'm so confused.

Start exists for a reason. It doesn't exist to create a thread and start it immediately. I still don't know the point of this code. What is the high level overview of what you are trying to do here?

UI code must run on the main thread. Although I have no clue what the point of this code us, I can see that it breaks that rule. Sad to see a thread be created suspended only to be immediately started.

Yes, but I'd not read your post and was making a general comment to the overall topic.

Why just wish for relaxing the 255 limit? Why not aim for multi line literals and more?

Not the 64 bit windows compiler

I'm not sure that @programmerdelphi2k is correct here. Consider RTTI. The compiler / linker can strip any code that it knows cannot be called. But with RTTI code can be referenced in ways that are only known at runtime. Therefore any code that can be reached by RTTI cannot be stripped.. Even if the linked knows, through static analysis, that it cannot be called directly

stockholm syndrome

It's almost impossible to help you

What's wrong with a simple edit control?

because SizeOf(Char) = 2?

Write a program that does Writeln(SizeOf(Char));

The pascal code in the question has pointer access and arithmetic

What is SizeOf(Char) on your system. If it is 2 then that would explain everything.

There's really no significant difference here between C and Pascal.

There's a bug in your code. It surprise you to learn that we can't see your screen.

You don't need to know about paging or segmentation. You need to learn how to allocate memory and then only access addresses within the memory that you allocated.

Rather than writing code, just edit the registry manually to debug your problem. Once you know what the solution is, then write code. If you want somebody here to troubleshoot then showing registry structure is much easier to work through than Delphi code to write registry values.

@milurt Is this question too hard for you to answer? I think that the answer is 4, but you seem to think that the answer is 3.

Do pound signs need to be escaped in json? Please tell me you are using Unicode.

Sounds like the worst of all worlds. The noise of try / except blocks everywhere, and old school checking for errors at all steps!

Don't you just have a small number of top level exception handlers?

Polling on a timer. Nice. As I said. The worst possible solution to this problem.

I've used memory mapping for sure. But it sucks for this application which wants messages. Important to use the right tool for each job.