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That page is petty much dead. The only way to reach anybody of the Jedi team (the few that are left) is through GitHub.

If you want this bugfix to be included in the JVCL, you will have to create a pull request on Github.

If dropping frames is not an issue, why bother with such a large buffer? Two frames would be enough.

If that's acceptable, simply using files would probably be the easiest way. Since we don't know what those programs actually do with the images, that's difficult to decide. If files are too slow, I would probably go with memory mapped files with two buffers and a combination of mutexes and events (event as in syncobjs.TEvent). One buffer is always available for the sender to fill. It doesn't check, just locks it (using the mutex), writes to it, unlocks it and sets an event to signal that data is available. The receiver is the part that manages which buffer is currently to be written to. It then waits for the event, switches the write buffer to the other one and starts processing the data. If that takes longer, the sender will overwrite the data in the write buffer as long as necessary. Yes, I think that would work. Needs a bit of polishing though.

I'm in the process of restructuring the GExperts sources. Currently the trunk is broken. If you want to compile your own DLL, use the https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gexperts/code/tags/before-switching-to-original-dzlib tag.

They compile again. But there are still a few warnings and hints I need to investigate. Also, some testing will be in order.

I just had a nasty surprise with Delphi 10.3 when trying to build a project that worked fine with previous Delphi versions. The problem turned out the text one of my pre build events wrote to the output. It contained the string "error :" [...] read on in my blog post

I apparently doesn't care whether there is a space between 'error' and ':' or not. I haven't investigated any further, e.g. if "warning:" also counts as a compiler warning. Even if it is meant as a feature, it's definitely not implemented correctly as there should not be such an additional and confusing error dialog. And of course it should have been documented.

Let me rephrase that: "The request, that I think has low priority, might have higher priority for a customer and he might be prepared to pay for it."

It's also a question whether the customer is willing to pay for his request to be implemented. My low priority request might have a much higher priority for the customer.

already reported: https://sourceforge.net/p/gexperts/bugs/132/

Fixed, try now.

Oh great, it's yet another Theming issue: The menu items on my computer are 24 pixels high, but GetSystemMetrics returns 20. That's why too many menu items were displayed which resulted in the menu being too high and overlapping with the main menu entry. On top of that, I can no longer debug GExperts in Delphi 10.3.3: The IDE crashes when the GExperts initialization starts. But not the debugged IDE but the debugging IDE. 😞 If that wasn't odd enough: I can start an IDE with GExperts fine, it ony crashes if I try to debug it.

Hm, I just tried to reproduce this on my computer. Doesn't happen. Could you please select the GExperts menu via keyboard (which should not have the effect of executing the first menu entry) and create a screenshot? Edit: Forget it. I just managed to reproduce it.

Please check that you are using the latest svn sources. Your first post says "13 hours ago", that would have been about 21:00 yesterday (CET). It might just have overlapped with my last commit.

That's one of the problems that I thought I fixed yesterday. What's your screen resolution(s) and scaling? If multiple monitors: Which one is primary and which one is the IDE on? Do you have the task bar on both?

Run the batch file in the images folder first.

Theming is a gift that keeps giving: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-27318 (Of course this is not my working environment, I just created it to track down a problem with GExperts.)

The problem is probably that the mouse coordinates do not match the pixel coordinates. If you click on the upper left corner, are you getting x=0 and y=0? If not, try ScreenToClient. Once you get that position right, try the lower right corner. Do you get x=Bitmap.With and y=Bitmap.Height? If not try to multiply with Image.Width/Bitmap.Width and Image.Height/Bitmap.Height. And then you might have to consider that y coordinates of bitmaps can be upside down.

GExperts: https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/07/01/experimental-feature-automatically-close-messages-window/

Science Fiction 😉 SCNR

I think it would be possible to do that. But: A Shortcut is the Ctrl/Shift/Alt+Key combination while what you are talking about is called a Hotkey. The expert does not/can not change the hotkeys

You can already configure a Tools menu entry to do that.

This happens all over the place. The menu hotkeys change whenever the IDE thinks it should recalculate them.

But that's exactly how we do it. Each project has its complete set of libraries stored in subdirectories of the project and referenced in subversion as svn:external. Compared to the size of the data we are working with (e.g. HD videos with several 10000 pictures each), that's not much space. And hard disks are cheap, especially if you buy them by the hundreds.