Lars Fosdal

It is tricky to do a generic helper class for Enumerations, since there is no constraint that will allow you to use enum operators. There are workarounds, but not pretty ones. As for having to use a constant table - why not use the actual type name? There is System.TypInfo function to convert an enum to a string which reflects the actual type name. http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/System.TypInfo.GetEnumName Result := GetEnumName(TypeInfo(TProjectType), Ord(Self)); There also is the reverse http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/System.TypInfo.GetEnumValue

@RDP1974 - I moved the post and delete the three "reposts". If you happened to post in the wrong category, ask a moderator to move it. Please don't do reposts/cross-posts.

Wrong floating point precision when choosing overloads https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-27488 Reduction of precision from integer to single rather than double https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-27499 Another case of silent reduction of precision https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-27500

Can it be that some of the known FP expression precision issues come into play here?

It was based on this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12788870/conditionally-compile-units-for-fmx-or-vcl I never mix VCL and FMX form code in projects myself, but I guess the problem here is that the "defined" depends on FMX.Types already being in scope. My approach would probably be to use an interface or a proxy class to hide the actual VCL/FMX accesses.

No worries. The only benefit of custom draw is if the column title is wider than the actual column.

@Kas Ob. - The 32-bit IDE is running on WoW. My IDE crashes too. Out of memory or it simply hangs in an internal deadlock. Several times per day. But - it has never crashed or trashed my Windows 10 Enterprise 1909 system. My uptime is typically about a month, i.e. until the next security patches. RAD Studio, Visual Studio, VS Code, PowerShell 7, MS SQL Server Manager, MS SQL Server, a large number of remote desktops, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, Teams, Discord, Chrome with too many tabs, Apex SQL Diff, Beyond Compare, VirtualBox, and the invaluable Process Hacker. I was thinking of the software you write - if it has page file issues - you either have HW spec issues, or you have allocation strategy issues.

"suffered from potential degradation" ? Either you suffer, or it is entirely potential. "The guys" ?

If your software has issues with page file involvement - your machines are not up to spec.

If you need VCL/FMX conditions in your own code, this works: {$DEFINE HAS_VCL} {$IF DECLARED(FireMonkeyVersion) and (FireMonkeyVersion >= 16.0)} {$UNDEF HAS_VCL} {$DEFINE HAS_FMX} {$IFEND}

@Kas Ob. My last three laptops have had 32Gbs of RAM. Page file involvement is pretty rare.

A forum is a place for reasoning and discussion. SO, not so much. What do you prefer? I guess most people go to SO to get an answer, provided one exists, and if not - use a forum. Edit: I gave up on SO for asking questions a long time ago.

Surely there are better characters in Unicode that you can use? ↑ / ↓ #$2191 / #$2193 ˄ / ˅ #$02C4 / #$02C5 ▲ ▼ #$25B2 / #$25BC Optimal solution could be a custom draw, but... is it worth the effort?

But SO is not a forum. Questions that are ... unprecise ... get eradicated fast and hard.

Looks like YAME. Yet Another Marketing Event.

https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/p/forums has some traffic, but I wonder how they will address the need for sub-forums that are not strictly Delphi...

We're gonna need more moderators And... perhaps some anger management classes

Added this suggestion today. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-30444

I use the same approach as @FPiette

Oh Emm Gee - that was scary 😄

The socket error is caused by something already using the port that you try to bind. F.x. if you run a http server, it defaults to port 80, but there may already be something else on your machine using port 80.

I prefer using method parameters instead of fields as parameters for reentrancy and thread safety. This allows for a parallel model or recursive model Result := SharedObject.Search('Value'); vs this, which does not allow parallel calls or recursive calls SharedObject.SearchField := 'Value'; Result := SharedObject.Search;

I used to use Peganza, but I stopped renewing it, since I used it so seldom. My current approach in principle Build project with detailed MAP file enabled Extract the unit list to a separate file Load the unit list in a PowerShell script Define the include paths in the PS script Walk the paths/files and search for the objectives, using PS

I think I preferred to keep wondering, TBH. It seems very clunky.

I wonder what the back story for the existence of those Explicit.... fields are.