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  11. Posted

    19 minutes ago, David Schwartz said:

    The problem with Dephi and Linux is all of the various platforms that need to be targeted. Maybe it would be easier to treat these the way I did way back in the day and build an image that included the entire OS along with the app code. You burned that into ROM or EEPROM and then turned the machine on and tested it.

     

    Why not do that with Delphi instead of having to worry about targeting an EXE to some pre-existing Linux distro that may or may not have all of the required libraries and support stuff needed? Just build an entire image, upload it, then reboot the target machine.

    Thats why we have things like Docker.

  13. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

    When you compare the MS VS CE to the EMBT RAD CE, the latter looks ridiculous.

    When you compare Embarcaderos product portfolio with Microsofts you should notice some ridiculous differences as well. You just can't make that much money on selling IDEs or developer tools alone. Please get real. Office Suites alone generate a much higher income, add an OS to that and giving away an IDE for practically nothing seems to barely make a dent in the profits.

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  14. Posted

    In the past I used one of the many free online services for my icons (not that I needed many, only two sets). Appiconmaker, app icon generator and so forth are handy google arguments. What they lack is the start screen thing, nice addition. What none have or even consider, is the use of a different icon for those small ones, where scaled down big images just look mushy and ugly. See here for more info on that subject.

  15. Posted

    11 hours ago, corneliusdavid said:

    It never ceases to amaze me how people in these forums can have such deep and intimate knowledge of the code of the IDE and it's plugins and libraries that they feel they have the right to highly criticize the hard-working team behind the complex and powerful development tools we use.

    Well, first of all, none of the libraries are closed source, every licensee may/can/should take a look at the RTL or VCL code. Furthermore there are some really smart fellows looking at that code, who develop some stuff I for one can't even begin to understand. So I'm pretty sure the comments don't come out of the blue and are not simply made to disrespect. They are heartfelt cries of pain and sorrow.

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  16. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Lajos Juhász said:

    *Can someone move the HDPI discussion into a new thread as we are discussing a bit different topic?

    Ummm. to complicated for that small stroll off of the beaten path. Let's all just try to get back on topic.

  20. Posted

    On 9/14/2021 at 4:39 AM, Lajos Juhász said:

    If you don't upgrade your computer to Windows 11 how do you test if your application works correctly or not? Please don't tell me that you force all of your users not to upgrade and not to buy a new computer with Windows 11 OS.

    Considering that's how everybody else does it, causing some poor saps to even run W2K machines that is not the worst of all choices...

  25. Posted

    I am very happy about noticeable changes in the compiler. It means they really still care. It's just not my main concern to save one or two megabytes here or there.

    But I do understand folks that really need it, hence the "broader audience" part in my post... some really need small executables. There is a whole Non-VCL movement out there, that denies themselves the VCL for reasons of exe sizes (among other reasons, I am sure). But, they might not profit from these changes...

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