Lars Fosdal

To be fair, one of the three disk drives in my laptop is rotating. I'm oldschool (and very large SSDs are still too expensive).

Have you checked if your app receives any notification after the installation of the font? A sleep seems so random... what if the system is REALLY busy so that the sleep is too short?

Physical heads are increasingly rare these days. My speculation is that the low level DMA mechanisms in the OS might outperform the higher level file routines - but it is pure speculation.

/off-topic: My mind boggles at the thought of a table without a primary key...

A random thought I had - what if you copied from one memory mapped file onto another, with multiple threads? I am not even sure that is possible, and it might be a problem with so large files, due to disk storage fragmentation. Edit: Not sure if it is possible to do memory mapping for a removable USB drive. Perhaps you simply need a faster USB unit 😉 https://www.tripplite.com/products/usb-connectivity-types-standards As for copying across network drive, this is where CopyFileEx really does a lot of low level problem solving for you.

Are you doing local copying or copying across the network? From empirical evidence, it seems to open files with read only, deny none. I've never experienced a sharing violation, and I have multiple concurrent clients that pull down changed .exe files from a central share.

Why are you extracting the blob with AsString and not AsBlob?

AFAIK, the Text field in SQLite has no length limit. Why use a BLOb?

Even professionals can't really do much without actual source code. Can you reproduce the problem in a self contained compilable example?

In some aspects VS is terrible. It is just a different terrible than the terrible RAD Studio.

The If and Case statements expressions are indeed pretty nice.

It works for global vars, though. unit MiscTestMore; interface uses System.SysUtils; type TOutput = reference to procedure(const aText: string); TRec = record a: string; b: integer; end; const c_TRec: TRec = (a:'A'; b:1); // Works c_TRec2: TRec = (a:'A2'); var v_TRec: TRec = (a:'A3'; b:2); // Works v_TRec2: TRec = (a:'A4'); procedure RecordConstTest(const Output:TOutput); implementation function Fmt(const aTitle: string; const aRec: TRec):String; begin Result := Format('%s a:"%s" b:%d', [aTitle, aRec.a, aRec.b]); end; procedure RecordConstTest(const Output:TOutput); begin Output(Fmt('c_TRec ', c_TRec)); Output(Fmt('c_TRec2', c_TRec2)); Output(Fmt('v_TRec ', v_TRec)); Output(Fmt('v_TRec2', v_TRec2)); // var l_TRec1: TRec := (a:'A5'; b:3); // Fails // var l_TRec2: TRec := (a:'A6'); var l_TRec: TRec := v_TRec; // Works Output(Fmt('l_TRec ', l_TRec)); end; end. Output: c_TRec a:"A" b:1 c_TRec2 a:"A2" b:0 v_TRec a:"A3" b:2 v_TRec2 a:"A4" b:0 l_TRec a:"A3" b:2

I like clarity. Brevity is not always clarity.

There is documentation, but it is meagre on examples of use. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/EMS.Services.TEMSLoggingService

Lots of good advice and my kind of humor, Joe! Great interview!

Can you verify that you are not calling Click from other methods / event handlers? Is it triggered from OnClick, or from OnMouseUp/OnMouseDown?

My first PC as well. Well, technically - the Memotech MTX512 belonged to my dad, but guess who used it the most?

Yup.

Interesting. I wonder why it was limited to the OLE/COM scope?

@Pat Foley - That is something entirely different. I was talking about naming parameters to a method.

I sometimes wish I could call Delphi code in SQL style. Run(aText2='my text'); i.e. specify individual parameter(s) and leave the rest as their default.

I was working with various kinds of financial data, weather data and power data (prices, volumes, etc), and thousand separators usage was variable. Spaces, commas, dots, the lot. It was a hodge-podge of formats since very few standard exchange formats existed at the time. Even vendors that you had contractual agreements with, would change the format on the fly, without notice. "Yeah, we changed the format. Nobody told you?"

The common trait is that both floats and dates have separator character challenges. For floats, the only reliable solution is to KNOW the input format and do the necessary stripping/replacement before passing the string to the converter. In some of my older input parsers, I stripped spaces, then checked for the presence of , and . and did the following processing - if only one exists, don't touch it - if more than one of a kind exists, remove them all - if both exists - remove all but the last one Which still is hopeless if the 1,000 is 1000 and not 1 with three decimals.

I am still waiting for nullable types so that I can rewrite more code 😛

This may be because 10.4 has introduced "MirrorMode" and you changed/saved the form in 10.4. If "MirrorMode" does not exist in 10.3, you would get that kind of error. But - why would you switch back and forth between versions for the same forms? The only safe way is to stick with the latest version you have access to.