Sherlock

Cosmetics aside, you should not store values in (visual) components. Store values in variables, class members or a database... not in a visual component. That is not its purpose. Try to avoid misuse of objects. For very small projects this might be OK. But overall and in real life this is not a way to go.

What does "work" mean in this case? No Compiler error?

Same here

Funny, I got "Don't bother installing Parnassus" on mine.

Thank you for clarifying. I am pretty sure that goes for 90% of our members here as well.

@Lars Fosdal What good are developer machines that run faster than light, when the average customer has the software running on what can only be described as a steam powered abacus? To test on a low end machine is the minimum, IMHO.

I suggest to wait with bated breath to see what comes next... I fear a collection of bad ideas might not be such a good...idea.

There are no trivial questions for LLMs...or perhaps I should rephrase that: All questions are considered equally trivial by an LLM. Unless your specific number was covered in a publication it has scanned, it will "know" nothing about that number. Hell, it might even believe it to be your grandmas name, if you should claim so.

Yeah, that part is no longer maintained and deprecated. There are at this time no formatters out there that can deal with every language feature 12.2 has to offer (multiline string literals - just to name one of them).

Condolences...roll back your VM to before and remove Parnassus and forget about them they are not worth the hassle. Edit: But it still might be salvageable just in case you don't use that particular best practice.... I'm sifting through the heaps of parnassus related stuff.

I'm unsure, because I never needed the bump myself

IIRC that eMail should go to sales not support.

As a starting point (and not elaborating on your SO find) I would try to add a shape and react to dragging and clicking actions. One would have to reinvent the mouse cursor with this "solution". But it might turn out to be not that much work.

@Kas Ob. thank you very much for this really detailed explanation. Very VS-centric. I had feared as much, when I read the report. I would like to know Embarcaderos position on this. This seems to be quite the aggressive attack on non-VS development, thinly veiled by regulatory requirements or the ever so popular "compliance". On the other hand now I have at least a bit of ammunition to react to this peculiar thing. On a side note, this is part of the process to get software certified as a medical device... something that gets harder every day in Europe and easier in the USA. But still, the claim or issue remains, that Delphi applications might load some DLL from insecure places. Without the developers intent. I found what caused the avrt.dll to load BTW. In my case it was the unused inclusion of the unit FMX.Media....

So, my application has been tested by an external company to check for vulnerabilities. This test was part of a larger audit of our company. I have one or two questions about this test especially concerning Delphi and its possibilities. The application is an FMX Win64 app, that tries to connect to dedicated servers in the local net, these must be configured in an ini-file accordingly. The app produces no sound, just charts or other imagery. No here are the test results in my own words. What I would like to know is how to avoid them in the future. It was observed that the app allowed the loading of an insecure DLL. Namely avrt.dll. The App uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. It was observed that the app has the following compilation flags not enabled/ not set. - Authenticode - cfg - forceIntegrity - gs - rfg As for 1) that seems to be some audio or multimedia thingy according to https://windows10dll.nirsoft.net/avrt_dll.html. As I wrote before: No sounds from my App. How can I shut this down? I am at a total loss concerning 2). I wouldn't even know where to start looking for those flags. Is anyone here aware of a problem with 2)? And who knows how to fix that?