Lars Fosdal

Correct. Which ones that one can trust to be. Which ones that can be made to be - and how. The impossible ones. Perhaps even a set of cookbook examples on how to do atomic exchange of different variable types, and what to do if you can't do them atomically due to misalignment.

Someone should author the definitive article on the memory alignment of variables. Which ones always are? Which ones may not be, and how to fix it? Which ones, if any, are out of your control?

Would it not be nice if the whole thing was on GitHub, GitLab, BitBucket or similar where it could be easily shared and modified, instead of a wall of code on a forum?

Ordered ePub + Paper.

That protocol looks more like a Serial cable protocol, than a TCP protocol? What happens if you send it as binary bytes instead of text hex? I.e. each hex value converted to a byte.

Nice, Carlo. I use the SVG preview capability from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/file-explorer

Scoping can lead to some weird scenarios. F.x. type TBase = class private public Data: Integer; end; TChild = class(TBase) private public Data: string; end; But, being able to "hijack" methods, simply by introducing them to the visible scope, is also kinda useful. A set of hints would be nice, though, so that you don't do it by accident.

Nothing beats pointers to arrays for InterOp - even today.

By "need to pass it to a (read only) memory area" - what do you actually mean? Do you want to get data from aData or put it to aData? Edit: ok, I read that again. What you want to do, is to allocate your TBytes array instead of using GetMem. SetLength(MyData, Size); Whatever fills your GetMem block, should also be able to fill @MyData[0] with the length you have preallocated? You then pass that as Something(MyData);

Here is how our TIdTCPServer shutdown code looks. That exception doesn't really happen anymore, though. 🙂

Ah - Brain fog cleared. Thanks, guys.

If it is public, why do you need to use inherited? I think the point just wooshed over my head here. (Not the first time)

@Marco Cantu I wish I as a subscriber could download it without having to reenter information already in your systems.

I guess private is not private - unless strict private?

We use Continua CI + FinalBuilder to manage versions.

That is interesting - and a little disturbing.

BTW; Wouldn't this do the job without putting extra load on the PC? https://www.philips-hue.com/en-nz/p/hue-play-hdmi-sync-box-/8718699707248

Voted and watched too.

True, although he may need to take into the consideration whether the monitor and game is using HDR or not?

@Der schöne Günther I.e. the overall luminosity of the image? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7964839/determine-image-overall-lightness Unsure if there needs to be something additional in the equation as mathematical and perceived luminosity might not be the same?

Congratulations, @Attila Kovacs 🙂

First rule of fight club - you never talk about fight club. Same thing for beta versions.

If the initial description is accurate - you don't really have a record - but a stream? I.e. the length of the string is variable, not fixed and #0 padded? [int flags][int dummy][shortish string#0][int padding][int flags][int dummy][this is a lot longer string#0][int padding] Decoding the stream would have to be done element by element, and it would be necessary to know the format of the string - is it ASCII, ANSI (if so, what codepage) or UTF-8. To put it into a more manageable format, you could use your initial record - but you would have to read it element by element to stuff that record or object structure. This can be done in a number of ways - such as a TFileStream or by going old school BlockRead. A well designed stream would have had the string length as an int before the string - but now you instead have to scan for that #0 termination.

Self-repairing problems are the best, Totte 🙂

There is a workaround in the following thread.