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That's the problem when talking to non native speakers. They might use words that in their mind mean something very different than in yours. I've definitely been there and done that.

Other companies (e.g. Steema (TeeChart)) have offered me remote assistance via TeamViewer (their choice, not mine) with a compilation / installation problem. Embarcadero could do something similar at least for customers with subscription and "Platinum support" to track down this annoying problem. We do not have Platinum support, but if we had and could reproduce this problem reliably, I would insist on something like this. Embarcadero is always bragging that they have some large enterprise customers. Customers like this should be able to pressure them to get their act together.

Oddly enough code completion stopped working for me on a large project in Delphi 10.2 while it works fine in Delphi 2007 and Delphi 12.2 and now 12.3. So it depends on the project in question.

I was just looking at the source code of the plugin and could not figure out where and how it preserves the bookmarks and breakpoints. Could you please give me a hint?

You can continue using the 32 bit IDE to compile and debug 64 bit applications.

With my particular monitor setup, the Desktop feature of the Delphi 11 and 12 IDE does not work correctly. The Startup Desktop is not restored as I saved it, on my high def monitor on the left hand side, but instead covers both monitors with huge window. I reported this problem to Embarcadero ages ago. The problem still exists in the recently released Delphi 12.3 (where I reported it again during the beta test phase). As I plan to switch to Delphi 12 in the medium future, I have now invested some more hours and added a workaround to GExperts that fixes the problem for me. It's in the current source code (revision #4466) in unit GX_ReselectDesktop, in case anybody is interested. I hope it does not break other people's installations. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/2025/03/16/gexperts-now-fixes-yet-another-annoyance-in-the-delphi-ide-desktops/

Edit: Fixed the problem with the full screen window in revision #4468.

The registry entry for storing the "Monitor Layout" setting in Delphi 12 contains the string "Allow changing screen on any layout change". WTF? Does that really mean this setting is language dependent?

So would I. If it should be user readable (why?) they could have used the enum name rather than an integer to store the setting.

Then building your own DLL is your only option for now. I might maybe build an alpha installer for 12.3 this weekend, but don't hold your breath.

Have you tried the existing version for Delphi 12? It should work, as this is a minor release of the IDE, but I haven't tested it. Alternatively you can build your own DLL. If you are asking for a 64-bit version of GExperts: That's not going to happen any time soon, if at all.

They don't call it "Version 1", they call it "Preview"^D^D^D^D^D^D ... no, they don't that was apparently during the beta phase. Now it's "64-bit initial release" which sounds more like it should be usable. Since I haven't used it at all so far, I can't comment on whether it is.

I have a similar problem with the GExperts hotkeys. There is a bug report on SourceForge that also suggests a cause and fix for this. Unfortunately I was unable to get it to work.

And Visual Basic is one place before Delphi again ...

Does anybody know how to prevent the ExplicitTop/Left/Width/Height properties from being written to the DFM file? I never saw any use for them and always installed Andreas Hausladen's DDevExtensions which allows to remove them. But since Andy apparently doesn't have access to the latest Delphi version there is no DDevExtensions (and also no IDE Fix Pack) for Delphi 10.4(.1) and I would like to add that functionality to GExperts. I tried, but so far failed. Any hints?

I think we should stop feeding the troll.

The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

Interesting idea. I might just try that. "format the following code according to the coding style used in this other unit"

Because being open source means that everyone can go ahead and modify it to their liking, right? Of course. Nothing prevents anybody from doing that, as long as the license conditions are observed. And even the most restrictive open source licenses that I know, allow private use of the code without restrictions. The project maintainer might not like those changes, but you can always have your very own personal fork of the code. (The particular project maintainer you are probably thinking about would of course prefer getting a patch that adds this as a configurable option and does not break the code and its compatibility to older Delphi versions..)

You could use TBitBtn instead, if that's an option.

If only there was a code formatter written in Delphi that is open source!

Hey, we have AI nowadays to solve that problem: Just tell it to convert the rust code to Object Pascal and be done. And if the first one does not succeed, try others.

Have you seen the IDE using a phone booth recently?

Am I right in assuming that the plugin calls the executable to do the formatting? Calling an executable is rather expensive (meaning: slow) in Windows, it would be really nice it you could also produce a DLL, that can be called from this plugin (and possibly other tools). 32 and 64 bits, if possible.

Isn't that an editor option? Cursor beyond EOL? Edit: No. There is no "Cursor beyond EOL". There is only "Cursor beyond EOF", which is different.