Sherlock

10 minutes ago, Lars Fosdal said:

I hope not. I hope they get their house in order ASAP.

Yeah, I really hope so too. But having read the word reputation at least twice in this read just triggered the association.

16 hours ago, Lars Fosdal said:

I have to agree. Their information - or rather, lack thereof - is really bad for their reputation.

 

There is fitting german proverb for exactly this

"Ist der Ruf erst runiniert, lebt es sich gänzlich ungeniert"

Which roughly translates to

"Once the reputation is shot you can live quite unabashedly"

Soooo... I'm guessing they are headed in that direction. 😄

12 minutes ago, ŁukaszDe said:

Do you know how can I install FastReport-2023.3 for D12 without GetIt?

 

For the Embarcadero Edition there seems to be only GetIt as a source, but you may try to contact their support.

Moved this part of the discussion to here. Looked smoother.

So...this seems to be just about the right time to create a new thread. Anyone looking for GetIt alternatives...please look here:

Anything else concerning the unavailable Embarcadero services continues right here.

Ah, Delphinus. I remember that. Awesome project! But alas, all free projects collide with some restrictions of other "free" projects (note the different frees here). The following part just made it to much of a hassle for me (I am really lazy):

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The current number of repositories already exceeds the number of calls Delphinus can do to the anonymous Github-Api. You’ll have to provide a OAuth-Token linked to a Github-Account.
https://github.com/Memnarch/Delphinus/wiki/Common-Errors

That ended my brief foray into this great project. But it seems really well thought through and implements many of the ideas posted in this thread. Only downside is the Github monoculture.

Every single line of code you need is in your example...just remix it to do what you want.

Edit: Or just take @Lajos Juhász code. But I strongly suggest trying to understand, what is being done there.

Isn't it up to you which items you put in the list? "Any way" could also imply to just filter yourself.

When this happens again try following what files are sought via ProcMon.

I too consider this to be a valid question for this forum. Alas I am unaware of any ways to change the behavior of this. Perhaps the Wuppdi welcome Page has something to offer?

On 1/28/2024 at 10:02 PM, JohnLM said:

Then we would go back to the days of BBS on dialup 🙂

Oh, goody!

Oh, goody! I was actually looking for that, when I was interrupted....and forgot about it

Consider looking at other projects tests. For example the tests in DUnitX itself: https://github.com/VSoftTechnologies/DUnitX/tree/master/Tests

or DWScript: https://bitbucket.org/egrange/dwscript/src/master/Test/

or SKIA4Delphi: https://github.com/skia4delphi/skia4delphi/tree/main/Tests

and last but not least Synopses mORMot: https://github.com/synopse/mORMot2/tree/master/test

and kinda out of competition there is this: https://github.com/NickHodges/DelphiUnitTests a noble initiative to create and collect unit tests for Delphi itself... sadly it did not take flight.

@Roger Cigol Done

On 12/15/2023 at 7:04 PM, Remy Lebeau said:

Please don't spread fake news.  There is no such version.

Sorry about that, that was just my humorous side getting the better of me, I know there will be no Version 13 - but if there ever was, it would aptly be named after a town with a "witch problem".

Unsure if anyone managed to create a report yet, so here is my take on it: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-43855

I'm sure they're working on it for Delphi 13 codename "Salem". (Edit: Please ignore this, if you are looking for facts!)

But for now https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/What's_New#Moving_Deprecated_Features and because the formatter is not explicitly mentioned here, it's deprecated through the modeling support.

Yeah, the formatter is no longer maintained, marked as deprecated and should be handled with caution.

Aside from that, you may highlight a specific code section and format only that. Or you could go a different way and choose to use the GExperts code formatter. It knows source directives to prevent code formatting.

Jupp, same here. The "Surround" command is always grayed, no matter which context.

Ah, a loop:

Feel free to branch out of the loop with new arguments or new questions.

D'uh!

But we're talking about Delphi, aren't we?

4 minutes ago, #ifdef said:

Free and useless - because it's old 😒

That really depends on the individual use case. For learning OOP with a Pascal flavor, D7 can be useful. For writing private Windows applications, that look "OK", Delphi XE2 is useful. For making money with Apps on current iOS...then any CE will be useless for several reasons.

10 minutes ago, #ifdef said:

Why and who needs an outdated CE?

Someone who does not want to spend and does not want to make money with Delphi Community Edition, that is who. And that seems to be a surprisingly large number.

I love the possibility to create and sell a monolithic exe, that can be dropped in a folder and just be executed, no installer necessary. That is of course not a distinguishing feature of Delphi, you could compile a C# application into a monolithic exe as well, but how often is that really done?

3 hours ago, Alexander Halser said:

Are there any other negative side effects known?

Not that I am aware of.