A.M. Hoornweg

Lazarus / LCL comes to mind. It is not for mobile (yet) but it wouldn't really surprise me if that comes someday.

(https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2022/05/24/create-next-generation-experiences-at-scale-with-windows/) ... a comprehensive end-to-end Arm-native toolchain for Arm native apps, including: Full Visual Studio 2022 & VSCode Visual C++" If by "end-to-end" they mean everything from input to output then the compiler should emit native code.

Ah, so you have write access to the repository? Great! I am attaching the file here for you to look at. My changes can be found by searching for {$ifdef unicode}. Without those changes, *.po files are loaded in the wrong code page and saving *.mo files produces corrupted files. POUtils.pas

I've found out that unit "/dxgettext/itetools/common/POUtils.pas" has severe unicode issues. The unit was written for an ANSI version of Delphi. I've fixed these bugs, do you happen to know how I can make the bugfixed unit find its way back to the original repository ? FYI: I plan to use this unit to translate existing *.po files of mine using a REST translation service which I subscribed to.

Very interesting, thanks for the link!

@vfbb: thanks for the example, I'll look into it!

Such rounded edges "miss" the points of the polygon, they deviate before hitting the point.

It's not trivial at all. I've downloaded a random contour map from the internet and attach it here. This is a map of a terrain, consisting of polygons that describe points of equal altitude above sea level. So there's a polygon describing an altitude of 350 metres, another one that corresponds to 360 metres, another one for 370 metres etcetera. The problem: The polygons may never intersect (any point of the topography has only one altitude). If an automated routine is to be used to create smooth connections between points of a polygon, it is necessary to avoid "wild deflections" that would make these lines cross adjacent polygons. A human being would have no problem drawing such connections by hand, intuitively. But an algorithm ?

Hello all, Not everyone may know this, but Delphi allows you to specify a per-project "welcome page" in the *.dproj file. The referenced html file will automatically be opened in your default browser whenever you open the Delphi project in the IDE. I find this very practical because it can be used as a "sticky note", to show the developer some information about the project and its current status. <Delphi.Personality> <Source> </Source> <Excluded_Packages> </Excluded_Packages> <WelcomePageFile Path="index.html"/> </Delphi.Personality> But... I've forgotten where in the Delphi IDE the setting is to specify this welcome page. I currently resort to editing the *.dproj file manually in an external editor and I hate doing that. Does anyone know where to find this setting? I must be getting old ...

Duh... I always thought all options stored in the *.dproj could be reached with ctrl-shift-F11 but for some reason they made an exception for this setting. Thanks!

Hello all, I have the problem that tMainmenu often fails to re-scale properly if I drag a window from a low-dpi screen to a high-dpi screen. This happens especially if it is a complex menu and it happens with or without a tVirtualImageList attached. The problem occurs on both Windows 10 and 11 (but more frequent on Windows 11). The compiler I use is Delphi 11.1 Alexandria. I am looking for workaround, is there a way to manually re-initialize or re-build the tMainmenu after scaling ?

I don't know, i'll check it out tomorrow.

I managed to create a workaround for this. See code below. The mainmenu of the form can be re-initialized by calling "menu.rebuild" . It works best if this is done ~100 ms after the form is re-scaled to the new dpi. type tMenuItemHack = class helper for tMenuItem procedure RebuildMenu; end; tMainmenuHack = class helper for tMainmenu procedure Rebuild; end; procedure tMenuItemHack.RebuildMenu; begin menuchanged(True); //"Protected" method end; procedure tMainmenuHack.Rebuild; var cnt: Integer; item: tMenuItem; begin cnt := items.Count; if cnt > 0 then begin item := items[cnt-1]; item.RebuildMenu;// trigger "menuchanged(True)" on rightmost item (minimize flicker) end; end;

I develop under Windows 10, but I have a build machine that's still running Windows 7. It will be migrated to Windows 10 in the near future.

Can confirm 100%. The ISO installer works and the web installer doesn't on Windows 7. In my case it indeed complained about a https connection failing. Don't forget to enable GetIt afer using the ISO installer ("getitcmd.exe -c=useonline").

Hello World, I see that the Delphi IDE now supports a whole slew of encodings including binary, is that new? I stumbled upon this completely by accident. And what's binary supposed to mean?

Oh, so it just switches the "display mode" of the editor, it does not save the units themselves in the format indicated ?

Thank you!

Can I call this structured diff viewer with command line arguments? I want to integrate it as an external diff viewer in tortoiseSVN ... Also, the menu item "help->user manual" does nothing...

"Event type=Bex" --> Buffer overflow exception. Most likely, the data written into a block of memory exceeds its size. There are tools to track down such errors (like Eurekalog, FastMM4 etc).

Hello all, does anyone else have the issue that a TImage containing a JPG does not re-size when the form is dragged to a screen with a different resolution? The weird thing: This only happens when the contained picture is a *.JPG. If the picture is a BMP or PNG then it *does* work OK. See attached image: The property "Stretch" is set to True in all 3 cases. (Edit) compiler version is Delphi 11.1 Alexandria.

OK, this is getting even weirder. I've placed a tTimer on the form plus an event handler to display the size of the 3 images. The size of the bitmap is 78x98 pixels in all 3 cases. procedure TForm25.check(img: timage; lbl: tlabel; fmt:String); begin lbl.Caption:=format('%s %d x %d',[fmt, img.Width, img.height]); end; procedure TForm25.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject); begin check (image1,label1,'JPG'); check (image2,label2,'BMP'); check (image3,label3,'PNG'); end; Now look what happens if I drag the form to a high-resolution screen (250% zoom). The tImage having the JPG did not resize but claims to have done so anyway. The tImage with the BMP scaled correctly but still returns the unscaled size. And finally, the tImage with the PNG scaled correctly and returns the scaled size.

Hello all, this question isn't strictly Delphi related but rather Windows 11 / VMWare Workstation related. I develop under Windows 10 X64 in a VMWare virtual machine. I'd like to migrate this VM to Windows 11 but there are a few things that currently make this unfeasible IMHO: - before adding a virtual TPM module, VMWare insists on encrypting all virtual hard drives (*.vmdk files) of the VM. - The encryption key contains information of the host machine. The drives will only decrypt on the same host machine. - So if my notebook dies, I'm basically scr##ed because the VM won't run anywhere else. That's totally unacceptible to me. The whole purpose of virtualization is having virtual hardware so the VM's are independent of the host hardware and its life span. A backup of a VM shouldn't be worthless if my hardware breaks! I currently have VM's that were created on at least 3 different machines and they still run fine, thanks to a vmx entry uuid.action= "keep" that tells VMWare to maintain the machine identity even if the VM is moved to a different machine. So... What gives? Is there a viable workaround for this problem? I know about the undocumented managedvm.autoAddVTPM="software" vmx entry but let me warn you, that has dire side effects: instead of encrypting the vmdk files as a whole it will just encrypt the header area of the vmdk files. That is even worse because you can't undo it - the decryption password isn't revealed. And it's not documented if this header encryption is machine dependent or not.

Hello all, The delphi 11.1 VCL has some subtle internal changes in high-dpi behavior with respect to version 11.0. I would like to detect in code if the compiler in use is 11.1 or higher. Is there any possibility to do that?