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That depends on the license of that DLL, I guess. This sounds as if you have got a particular DLL in mind. Which one?

So, when can I expect a patch, that implements this functionality?

So far I have only seen a single spam post here. Not sure whether the reason is that there aren't that many or that people and admins are fast in reporting and removing it.

Yet another one. 😉 I guess sooner or later everybody ends up writing his own, because the built in one is/was not up to par and none of the publicly available ones was popular enough. (When I wrote mine in 2006 I searched for an existing solution that fit my needs and found none.) Here is mine: https://osdn.net/projects/dzlib-tools/scm/svn/blobs/head/dzlib/trunk/src/u_dzCmdLineParser.pas It allows to register options with and without parameters as well as parameters and can generate help for them. The latter was the feature I was missing with any existing solutions I found.

I second VirtualTreeview, but be prepared for a steep learning curve. (Every time I use it in a new project I have to look up how to use it.)

Try do temporarily disable your virus scanner and see whether the problem goes away. (That's the only idea I came up with, everything else is so obvious that I think you probably already tried it.)

Everybody and his brother – ahem – sister is blogging about the latest Update for Delphi 10.3 which has been announced two days ago. As always, Embarcadero’s servers are overloaded and have been down for hours. I have now started downloading the ISO and my browser is telling me it should be finished in 90 minutes. I’m not convinced yet… The first feedback has been that GExperts seems to work with the new version but there is an access violation when exiting the IDE. I’ll give it a try once the download has finished and if I can actually install the new version. Everybody else of course is welcome to get the GExperts sources and compile their own DLL to test. I’m interested in feedback about self compiled DLLs more than about the last release. If somebody can track down the AV and maybe even propose a fix that would be great. (that's actually the full blog post from here: https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/07/20/gexperts-and-delphi-10-3-2/ )

The assertion in SynTextDrawer usually only happens after another exception on exit, that probably prevented DeactivateFontInfos from being called. I have yet to find the cause. The Assertion is new, introduced by my recent update of SynEdit to the current version from GitHub. I have just played a bit with the "disable all editor enhancements" option, no crash at all. 10.3.2 seems to be usable now. I'll try to do some work in it and see if I can reproduce the problem.

There are a few things that every single one of our internal programs should do: Every dialog should be sizeable if it makes any sense at all. Delphi makes that easy with the Align and Anchor properties. Ask yourself the following questions. If you answer any of them with Yes, ... https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2019/04/03/things-that-every-desktop-program-should-do/

Given some of the available color schemes that might be a feature. 😉

Since I have never used GetIt for anything: Does installing those components that are free (not just demos) and those that you can buy via GetIt (is that actually possible?) also install the source code? In that case I would not bother backing up the components or any installer files but would move the source code to my own SCM. Whenever an update from GetIt is available, I would then update that SCM. Updating from GetIt would only be done on one particular installation, every other installation would use files from the SCM. In particular I would expect a company that uses Delphi to have a policy of never directly using GetIt and never use binary only components. Any company that does not have such a policy I consider likely to go belly up in the near future. It has become more likely that a component vendor goes out of business than ever before. (OTOH, I am not sure whether a company that uses Delphi nowdays isn't doomed anyway. But hey, I am working or one. 😉 )

Stored window sizes and positions (in whatever) should not roam, unless one can be sure that the user always has the same hardware. That's why I switched to the registry from a centrally stored ini file (the latter could also be questioned, but in this particular case it makes sense to have a common configuration for all users).

Intersting. The other menus seem to be fine, only the PE Information has this behaviour. I'd bet that the problem would go away if I removed the icons. (But I haven't tried it yet.) Theming is 💩

I haven't used it really, but isn't code folding meant for exactly that use case? There is code that you don't want to see, so fold it away. Of course automating that would be really nice, which brings us back to the parsing requirement.

Thanks for the suggestion, but that sounds like quite some overkill for my purpose.

So you want the compiler to check all the references for you without giving it the references to check? Not possible. You could put all the form variables into a global unit, typed as TForm and only use that unit. Unit AllMyForms; Interface Uses Forms; Var TheMainForm: TForm; ASecondaryForm: TForm; Implementation End. Unit TheMainFormUnit; Interface Type TTheMainForm = class (TForm) // stuff here end; // remove the variable declaration here // Var // TheMainForm : TTheMainForm; I'm not sure this would work. It might wreak havoc with the IDE. (Sorry for the source code mess. I'm on mobile and for whatever reason there is no insert source code button.)

Surprisingly difficult to find any Delphi implementation at all. Googling "5F3759DF" "delphi" finally turned up something: http://www.sql.ru/forum/actualutils.aspx?action=gotomsg&tid=190407&msg=20745512 function FastInvSqrt(const Value: Single): Single; inline; var IntCst: Cardinal absolute result; begin result := Value; IntCst := ($BE6EB50C - IntCst) shr 1; result := 0.5 * result * (3 - Value * sqr(result)); end; and function FastInvSqrt(x: Single): Single; var xhalf: Single; i: Integer; begin xhalf := 0.5 * x; i := $5F3759DF - (PInteger(@x)^ shr 1); x := PSingle(@i)^; result := x * (1.5 - (xhalf * x * x)); end; These are using different constants. (And some more in that thread, unfortunately I don't read Russian, so I don't know what the result of the tests were.) Nothing useful turned up for "5F375A86" "delphi" which is supposedly the optimal constant when using Newtons iteration. And "fastinvsqrt" "delphi" found some more: https://github.com/itchyny/fastinvsqrt/issues/1 (In Chinese, no idea what they are talking about, it is not part of the official list in that project.) https://sourceforge.net/p/graphics32/mailman/graphics32-commits/?viewmonth=201109&page=0

You're probably not allowed to publish such a comparison.

Does a constant called EmptyString with the value '' make any sense to you? I think it is just confusing. I mean, when I see it used somewhere I assume that it has some special value that is *not* '', otherwise the programmer would have used a literal '', wouldn't he?

After I managed to update the license on elc today (thanks again to Matthias Eissing), I was able to compile and use GExperts in Delphi 10.3.2. So far without problems, but that does not mean much because I started and exited the IDE a few times and didn't do much more. I'm busy with other stuff (using Delphi 2007).

That's the point: Why have such a constant if it's much more to type and more difficult to read than the literal? The only case I would use such a constant is to have it symbolize an empty string e.g. in a configuration storage where for whatever reason using a literal '' is not possible.

I got Delphi 10.3.2 installed, but now it tells me my update subscription has expired (No it hasn't, I renewed for a year in May 2019). The old version was also telling me that it had expired but kept working because it was released before May. May sales representative, who I told about this, had no idea and since I was busy with other stuff I never followed it up. That's what you get for not persisting at such times. I probably need some updated license file for our license server. I'll try to get that on the way on Monday, but don't hold your breath for any updates or bugfixes to GExperts for Delphi 10.3.

I haven't yet found the time to download and install the Rio update. Maybe this weekend. Is this the released DLL from the installer or did you compile it yourself using Delphi 10.3.2 ?

I think I asked that before: Is there a keyboard shortcut for activating the code editor? If I remember correctly the answers were: No, but you can use F12 to toggle between form designer and code editor, and F11 for a three way toggle between object inspector, form designer and code editor. Do I remember correctly? If yes, I have some good news for those who have missed this functionality (which definitely includes myself): I have just added a simple expert to GExperts that does nothing else but activate and focus the code editor. But that raises a question: What should the default keyboard shortcut be for this expert? So I resurrected Nicholas Ring's Delphi Shortcut Finder, in order to find out what is still available. But unfortunately this tool, useful as it is, basically is only a list of known shortcuts with a filter function, so it might miss shortcuts from possibly widely used tools which I simply don't know. I first thought about some F11 combination but it turned out that they are already taken, the same goes for F12. Then there is Shift+F3, but I think this is used for "Find Previous" in some tools. The obvious combinations with the E and C key are also already taken. Shift+F6 seemed to be free for now. (F6 calls IDE Insight and Ctrl+F6 switches between C++ source and header files.), so I assigned it as the default for the new expert. Or Is there a widely used plugin that uses Shift+F6?

Isn't database problems the normal state there? 😉