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Yeah, that part is no longer maintained and deprecated.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.

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?

@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....

If you need to ask ChatGPT, you should not start the development. Because you would clearly not be from this branch of industry. Just listing some topics is not even the tip of the iceberg...just a snowflake on top of that.

If not, it's dead. Chrome and all Chrome derivatives use it extensively already.

This strongly depends on the context your app is used in, or rather what your app is supposed to do. I would not even try to write a word processor for Android, unless I could assume that all users have a real keyboard.Even then the Android version would be stripped of some features. I would also create a UI which would be very similar in both worlds, so no MainMenu and no PopupMenu. Those would be replaced by something like the FMX.TMultiView. But I guess looking at tutorials might give you the best ideas. So here goes: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Tutorials https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Multi-Device_Applications_Index and maybe this:

Interesting. I have no iPhone X, I just found this information at Apple and thought it might be an explanation.

iPhone X only supports iOS up to version 16.7.5...or rather the other way around. iOS 17 is not supported by iPhone X.

The installer will uninstall anyway. No way around that yet. 3rd party components might survive the uninstall, or not. Make sure to click the save settings box when prompted at the uninstall part of the procedure, that helps a lot.

Slightly off topic: Reading this site with the standard light layout I thought the images where all broken...until I saw the webp and realized all images are white on transparent background. Silly me

bds.exe will not prevent other instances from opening, it wont even tell you there are others running. This is so you could debug the IDE or plugins therein without hassle, should you be so inclined. BUT GExperts has a nag screen, that pops up if mutiple instances of it are started... which makes it sort of a crutch to notice still running bds.exe. But this dialogue may be disabled.

I'm not sure if this thread is meant to be a question or actually a blog post...or tutorial.

Assuming they really are based in the US you may have caught them in the middle of a 4th of July party. I'd give them till next week before moving on.