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IDE toolbars get scrambled over time The toolbars of the IDE lose icons when starting, exiting and restarting the IDE multiple times (see screenshot). This bug had already been reported in the old quality portal for Delphi 11 and 12. It’s still there in Delphi 12.1. Resetting the toolbars to their default using the View → Toolbars → Customize dialog, helps for a while before the same happens again. https://embt.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1/RSS-515 It seems to have been fixed in Delphi 12.3, at last I have not seen this problem after I updated my installations. Maybe it has been fixed? The bug report is still open though, so maybe that was a side effect of some other change?

With that kind of qualification I would expect a 6 digits salary. (But I'm not interested anyway.)

Did you ever try that? The biggest hurdle in updating any packages for a new Delphi version was moving from 2007 to 2009, where string changed from AnsiString to Unicode. But even that was easier than I expected for most components suites. With most packages you need to update some central include file and create new package projects. The source code will compile fine most of the time. Usually that takes at maximum an hour (but I have had cases where the Update took me several days due to some problems I introduced myself). But this will only work if you bought the source code, which I have always recommended because you never know when some 3rd party vendor might go out of business. And you won't get the latest features of course.

This is one of my pet pevees with Github: It's difficult to find out which repository is the official one. (Especially since everybody keeps telling me: In git all repositories are equal,)

OK, I bite: What's the problem with SameValue?

What's wrong with Assert(SameValue(Value, Should)) Or, if you want to set the maximum allowed difference yourself Assert(SameValue(Value, Should, MaxDelta)) Edit: @Cristian Peța already suggested that.

According to Firefox, the certificate for this domain has expired.

dzOTP Tool to test OneTimePad tokens generated by the FreeOTP Android App That was a long time ago, so I don't really remember how exactly this worked.

I've been asked this question several times before: Yes I did, no I won't. Edit: I should have mentioned that this is also answered in the FAQ in the post pinned to this sub forum: https://en.delphipraxis.net/topic/4123-about-gexperts-some-frequently-asked-questions/

If you have been updating the GExperts sources (or are following the activity on SourceForge) you might have noticed that there quite a few bugs have been fixed. That was not me alone (I am on vacation so I have some more time than usual) but also @Achim Kalwa (thanks Achim!). Many of these fixes were for the code formatter, but there are some more for glitches in the UI, in particular for scaling problems. read on in the blog post.

Very important, if you use TForm.OnCreate events and plan to work with Delphi 10 and 12.3 in parallel for a while: They dropped the TForm.OldCreateOrder property. All previous Delphi versions set this value to False when a new form was created in the IDE. But if open an existing project in Delphi 12 and save a dfm file, the OldCreateOrder value will be removed. When you then open it in Delphi 10 OldCreateOrder will get assigned its default value, which is True. So by saving in Delphi 12 and then in Delphi 10 the OldCreateOrder value changes from False to True. Uwe Raabe blogged about the consequences this can have. On top of that you will likely have much "fun" with Windows per display scaling which is supported by Delphi 12.

If you pass a const parameter which you want to reference by its address in asm code, you need to make sure that it actually is passed as a reference and not in any other form.

Maybe if you want to use ASM to access the parameter?

Aren't we doing that right now?

You apparently missed my answer:

TMenuItem has got a Parent property of type TMenuItem. I haven't checked but I would assume that it is NIL for main menu items. Edit: I was wrong. See online help here: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/Vcl.Menus.TMenuItem.Parent It's identical to the MainMenu's Items property. But that's just as good for detecting main menu items.

You must set the height of the memo with alBottom. Everything else will adjust automatically (unless the splitter acts up then it will be moved above the memo with alClient 😞 in that case you can hopefully set the splitter's top position to move it back between the memos where it belongs).

In addition to allowing to change keyboard shortcuts, GExperts has the Uses Clause Manager which on the Identifier tab offers similar functionality as the Delphi Uses Helper. The UI is very different though, but it also finds partial matches (but not typos).

msmpeng is Windows defender. Try to temporarily disable it and see whether the performance improves.

But we have Vibe Coding now!

As @DelphiUdIT already said: The first thing you need is a compiler that creates binaries for Linux. And Delphi Professional - regardless which version - doesn't include that. According to Embarcadero's overview, you need at least the Enterprise SKU. On top of that, you might need GUI libraries, this is where FMXLinux comes into play. Of course the question is, whether you actually need a GUI. What kind of applications do you plan to develop?

Just to make one thing clear: GExperts does not support the 64 bit version of the IDE and the installer does not add it to that IDE. The error you get regarding the UsesClauseManager may well be caused by a problem of the IDE itself before that. I don't use the C++ personality of Rad Studio (I usually only install the Delphi personality), so I can't really say anything about the cause. And since nobody else working on GExperts (there currently is 3 of us off and on) uses C++, there is little chance of fixing any problems with it. Unless of course somebody else steps forward now.

I just built a test installer for 12.3. Note: This is from the current source code, including all the bugs I might not yet have found. http://download.dummzeuch.de/GExperts/1.3.25_2024-08-24/GExperts_RS12_test-for-12.3_2025-04-13.exe Note to people who might read this later on: I might delete that file without notice at any time in the future. There will hopefully be a new release by then.

I am using GExperts with Delphi (RAD Studio) 12.3 and it works just fine. But admittedly I am using a DLL compiled from the current sources. What do you mean by "the IDE fails to start"? Is there any error message?

It apparently is: It does not happen on my laptop with a single HD screen. Nor on my desktop when I turn off the 4K monitor or alternatively the HD monitor. And after starting Delphi once with only the HD monitor connected, it no longer happens with both monitors. Sounds like an easily reproducible problem, doesn't it?