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    16 hours ago, Brandon Staggs said:

    If you really need that kind of hand-holding, you need to move to a different language.

    There's an argument I can subscribe to: Spare us the syntactic sugar of the last 15 years and concentrate on the bug fixing.

    Digit separators, generics, inline variable declaration, multiline string literals, string-like operations support for dynamic arrays? Can them all, and burn the heretics who asked for them :classic_cool:

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    In the past I have encountered some issues with the classic mount scheme, especially in WiFi environments, where a temporarily lost connection could lead to a permanently (until next reboot) lost mount. I have found autofs to be a perfect solution for this and also a good way to reduce network traffic. Here is a small explanation: https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP2/html/SLES-all/cha-autofs.html. And after looking into this I found newer versions of systemd are capable of the same thing, just read here: https://anteru.net/blog/2019/automatic-mounts-using-systemd/.

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    This

    On 2/19/2024 at 10:12 PM, Anders Melander said:

    t would of course best if you could just set the default hint texts in your base language so there's something to translate. Surely, if a control needs a hint text in one language, it needs it in all languages.

    or I would suggest to keep going with dummy spaces and to remove then at runtime. Then, no hints are displayed where none are there to display.

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    24 minutes ago, Anders Melander said:

    Looking at the Threading unit, it's rare to see professional code with this few comments. Is there some sort of rule within Embarcadero against commenting the code?

    Considering the 1337 attitude of some developers ("well written code is self explanatory") they might just have the best Delphi coders in the world... however, seeing as the RTL and VCL are very often a source of inspiration and for learning, I would also appreciate more well written comments. Perhaps not line for line, but at least stating the intent of the following code block or the reasoning why this way was chosen over another.

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  18. Posted

    It has always been my understanding that you may continue to use the product after the license expires, you just wont get updates or assistance.

    But that cited text there reads quite troubling.

    You should be aware though, that there are different license agreements for different countries. So please make sure you are reading the correct one, concerning you and where you bought the license.

  21. Posted

    Those are just TButtons with three dots in 'em. It is up to the programmer to react to the OnClick event and open up whatever dialog is desired.

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