Uwe Raabe

First I would like to use the same settings as in your system. Can you export the MMX registry key for me? The key base is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Raabe Software\MMX\13.0 (I know about the 13.0 as an open issue in the beta).

Then, if I still cannot reproduce it here, I will try to compile a special version with some logging. Unfortunately, as long as I have no clue about what is happening here, that can only be some shots in the dark.

I am also a bit baffled that no one else reports a similar behavior. Can you rule out any other non-standard addin or a non-standard Delphi installation?

15 minutes ago, swierzbicki said:

I really hope that Uwe will fix this MMX issue

I am sorry, but even with your source unit I am not able to reproduce it here.

17 minutes ago, jbg said:

Unless you use the external compiler, the compiler runs in the main thread

I hope that is also not the case when background compilation is enabled.

This should give you some hints: Checking the SQL Command Text

The rest of that article might be helpful, too.

I was wrong. It is a problem with 10.3 Rio only. The IDE doesn't work well with these settings and MMX seems to be the victim here. Not sure what I can do about that.

You can edit the registry entry of your Delphi version to specify another version of MMX. Look for MidexExpert in the Experts subkey.

I just had a quick look into the sources and it is indeed so that the help icons are located statically and don't move when the control to the left resizes (which they actually should). I have to go through all of these (which are a lot) and check for that link. 

1 hour ago, PeterPanettone said:

Have you compiled the MMX dialog form with the Scaled property set to True?

Of course I have. After all it should adapt to DPI changes when the dialog is moved to another monitor. 

I rather suspect the help buttons rely on a specific font size. Will have a look.

I wasn't able to reproduce it with these steps on a simple new project. Can you try it again with a new VCL Forms project with a plain Integer property added to the form? I just want to narrow it down to the installation/settings or the actual source file causing this error.

27 minutes ago, Fred Ahrens said:

the implementation of some of Andreas' patches directly into the official release

I can also vaguely remember that Andreas claimed that as the reason why there will be no IDE Fix Pack for Rio. Unfortunately I cannot find that statement anymore, so it should be taken with care.

Can you try the same using a different or no password? Besides an error regarding the wrong password, does it succeed then?

7 minutes ago, HelpNDoc said:

If you have any contact at Google, it might be worth raising this issue

Might be worth to ping @Allen Bauer with that. I doubt there is anyone at Google with more knowledge about Delphi and the RTL.

It installed flawlessly here, but I have to admit that I used an old Raize serial number which the installer automatically suggested.

9 minutes ago, Schokohase said:

Ask the vendor support, they will help you

Radiant Shapes has been acquired by Embarcadero a while ago: Konopka VCL Controls & Radiant Shapes now part of the Berlin Bonus Pack

Did you know that you can edit binary files inside the IDE?

Just open a binary file in the IDE and you get a simple HEX editor.

No problem. I attach it here again.

ImageIndexMapper.zip

2 hours ago, Dany Marmur said:

i'm getting a "404" when i click the link ImageIndexMapper.zip above

Looks like the attachment got lost in this forum. Please try the cross post mentioned above. The attachment there still seems to work.

6 hours ago, Roland__K said:

great news

Probably not for myself 

16 minutes ago, mausmb said:

I found 3 bugs (but didn't report them to Quality portal)

May I ask, why not?

28 minutes ago, FredS said:

your clients will understand that the most important part of developing is the new skins

Actually clients do think this way!

A couple of years ago we made a poll about features our customers want to see implemented in our software. Nearly 2/3 of the answers were about visual appearance. Probably because that is what the customers see and work with. They usually don't understand the internals and simply assume they just work. Even now I get approval for changes much easier if they are heavily accompanied by visual enhancements.

4 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

there may be duplicates from different files. I want to display both.

How are they sorted?

30 minutes ago, haentschman said:

ComponentState = csFreeNotification! What's that mean?

The component is going to notify other components when it is destroyed. A component can register for FreeNotifications by calling AComponent.FreeNotification(Self) and unregister with AComponent.RemoveFreeNotification(Self). The notification is done by calling the Notification method of all those registered components. This is usually done to update a local field pointing to that component to prevent dangling pointers. Perhaps some component doesn't follow this pattern as closely as it should do.

1 hour ago, dummzeuch said:

add them to an in memory structure where they should be sorted

Can you elaborate on this a bit:

• What is the sort used for (iterating and/or searching)?
• How do you sort duplicates from different files?

Static arrays are never freed. That's why they are called static. They live as long as their scope lives.

17 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

Yes, definitely the icons. I reverted all other changes but left the Images property empty and it works fine now.

Good catch! This allows me to create a reproducible test case and send it to David Millington.