Sherlock

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Why and who needs an outdated CE?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.

5 minutes ago, Alexander Halser said:

Any known downside or side effects due to this modification?

You should do this only for Windows environments. So be shure to wrap that in appropriate $IFDEFs in case you develop multi platform (what FMX is designed for).

Try NativeInt for 32Bit and 64Bit compatibility...

Phew. Congrats on that. Now you'll have to figure out if that was a one time glitch. Some future patches might rely on 22H2 being installed, which might leave your otherwise new computer ...um, looking old.

Well Google has no right to gloat..."Ice cream sandwich"? Stupid names. Numbers rule! Delphi 12.0 - Done. Pure. Simple. No room for mistakes or errors. Other than Debian: Bullseye, Buster or Bookworm...which one is oldest?

Aha, ok. Nope, still no error here. Using the demo sources selected at install time, everything works fine. Have you tried placing a break point in the pnlCreatePDFDrawingSVGClick method, to see when your crash occurs? Perhaps you don't have a PDF reader installed (very wild guess)?

@Ralf7 I am not sure how to reproduce it. I created a new VCL project in D12. Activated SKIA...and now what?

OK, now that I understood what this was about. I deleted the unnecessary code.

1 hour ago, dummzeuch said:

Unfortunately you won't get that past most marketing departments.

I can see them now, brooding in their offices over a not so satisfactory IDE release, when suddenly one of them jumps up in excitement, shouting: "I got it!" Proceeding to invite everyone to a Teams meeting to spread the good news. When they all finally got together an extensive presentation with countless slides was skillfully delivered to the increasingly agitated peers culminating in roaring applause and a virtual high five by Mr. Popov himself, who had joined after hearing the good news. With his chest swollen with pride he then announced "So this is it then: Athens!"

Have you tried undoing the update via Powershell yet? Details here: https://support.atera.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020477680-Uninstall-Windows-10-Updates-#h_01F0WXRRDN6R5S7NSCTF9P8V41

I concur with @FPiette. Considering Windows 10 support and life will be over in two years, you would not want to upgrade then. Do it now, and be done with it. You just witnessed in the flesh what an "old" Windows can do...or rather what it can't. Just consider that a fair warning.

2 hours ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

Seems like a candidate for "Top most weird tech decisions"

And equally a candidate for the Darwin Award...if there was a software category.

Just as a totally unqualified insertion: We are talking about the GOTO statement right? The one Dijkstra is rotating in his grave about? Ok, just checking. Carry on....

3 hours ago, Tommi Prami said:

Or "too many" post in short period in time or something like that...

Could be that. I have no insight to the absolute inner workings of the forum software, but I have the impression the situation is sorted out anyhow. Or is there still some trouble @fastbike?

So that is a VCL application? Because enabling SKIA in an FMX application will cause all rendering to be done via SKIA, independent of the components. Another difference to remember.

16 minutes ago, Rollo62 said:

I remember the last time when I did this, that was in the age where performant VM's where not yet everywhere available.

More than ten years ago, right? Daily snapshots plus snapshots before an installation are the norm. And everyone who has ever whined about something broken in his "production environment" after installing this or that has gotten an earful about why they don't work on virtual machines. So one would think this particular issue should have become a no brainer...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but has this problem not happened before? Parnassus stuff not running with two different installed Delphi versions. At least for me it does not sound new.

Just to clarify: Have you not seen increases or other differences between Delphi 11.1 and 11.3? I mean, there was some work done there too. Why compare "some version along the way" to the newest, and not the last version before the new release?

4 minutes ago, Ian Branch said:

But the ParnassusCoreEditor.dll does not, as the Parnassus' .dlls are all in the same common folder

That was always the trouble with that Parnassus stuff. BTW it is now Embarcadero stuff, and they should know better. -.-

1 hour ago, pyscripter said:

Let's not start language wars

You are absolutely right. Sorry about that.

Noice! And which breaking changes happened this time? Python is sweet when you need short scripts but a pain for large projects. I would like to see any one of our colleagues here with their million LOC projects using Python.

4 minutes ago, mvanrijnen said:

also for community edition?

 

According to the feature matrix found in here https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Community_Edition, yes.