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  3. Posted

    16 hours ago, Attila Kovacs said:

    I'll consider it to be Nessie's droppings until someone can show me how to make Delphi spit out otareses.

    Try opening a pre Delphi XE2 package project with XE2 or possibly a later Delphi version.

  4. Posted

    DocWiki for XE2 says this:

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    File with unknown resources generated during upgrade of pre XE2 project. (Unknown resources are resources that are not included in the build configuration, like version info, icon, manifest or styles.)

    (If it doesn't tell me something about a bad gateway)

  6. Posted

    The changes I made concentrated on two areas:

     

    1. Moving the code previously in the special editor enhancements part to a new expert with that name. So there is no longer a tab in the configuration dialog for the editor enhancements, instead there is a new expert and the configuration is done through that experts own configuration dialog. (This was done to achieve 2. more easily.)

    2. Restructuring the way images are assigned to actions registered with the IDE. This should fix the problem described in the original post.

     

    Everything else should continue working as before.

  12. Posted

    I just found a typo in the TWMDPI record declaration in the Delphi 10 Winapi.Messages unit: 

      TWMDpi = record
    Msg: Cardinal;
    MsgFiller: TDWordFiller;
    YDpi: Word;
    XDpi: Word;
    WParamFiller: TDWordFiller;
    ScalledRect: PRECT; // <- here
    Result: LRESULT;
  end;

    ScaledRect is misspelled as ScalledRect.

     

    I am not sure whether this spelling error was in the original installation or whether I might have changed this declaration by accident (No, that unit is not readonly on my system.) Since this record was introduced with Delphi 10 it might just have been a typo that was corrected in later versions.

     

    Could somebody with an unchanged installation please check?

  14. Posted

    15 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

    I just tried to use AddImages instead. Unfortunately this doesn't work either in Delphi 12 but works fine in older versions (those that support it).

    Maybe it doesn't like being used in addition to AddMasked, or I am doing something else wrong.

    It was the additional calls to AddMasked. If I comment these out, the images are assigned correctly to the actions. So now I have to figure out a way to avoid these calls. And then ifdef the whole stuff to only run on Delphi 12 (and possibly later, or maybe starting with the first Delphi version that supports AddImages) ...

  15. Posted · Edited by dummzeuch

    I just tried to use AddImages instead. Unfortunately this doesn't work either in Delphi 12 but works fine in older versions (those that support it).

    Maybe it doesn't like being used in addition to AddMasked, or I am doing something else wrong.

     

    Another day wasted on broken IDE functionality. 😞

  17. Posted · Edited by dummzeuch

    43 minutes ago, wxinix said:

    I am looking for a Delphi subprocess library, something like Python's subprocess -  is there one?

    If I understood this correctly, a Python subprocess starts an external program, connects its stdin/out/err to pipes and gets the return code when it exits.

     

    There is nothing like this in the standard Delphi RTL but there are multiple third party options. If I remember correctly one is in the JCL, another is my own TAsyncExec class in unit u_dzAsyncExec which is part of my dzlib library.

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  19. Posted · Edited by dummzeuch

    18 hours ago, Uwe Raabe said:

    I have dropped using AddMasked for quite a while in favor of AddImages using a T(Virtual)ImageList and TActionList in dedicated datamodules. You can find that approach in https://github.com/UweRaabe/DelphiCodeCoveragePlugin.

    Thanks for the hint. I thought about that approach too, but unfortunately that's very difficult to do with the current way GExperts works: Each expert registers its own action / image with the IDE, removes the action when the expert is disabled and adds it again when the expert is enabled. All this without restarting the IDE. On top of that this API was introduced at some time after Delphi 6 (haven't checked when exactly), so I'd need to use two different ways to still support all currently supported Delphi versions.

     

    Btw: Are you aware that Project Magician registers an action without a name? That means it cannot be added reliably to a toolbar. I found that today while investigating an issue with the GExperts Editor Toolbar.

  20. Posted

    After wasting two days trying to find a solution for this issue, I just filed a bug report with Embarcadero:

     

    RSP-44007: Actions / menus display wrong images for plugins

     

    Description

    When a plugin (both, package or dll based) adds actions / menu entries with images using INTAServices.AddMasked and assigns the index of this call to the ImageIndex property of an action, the menu entries associated with these actions do not display the correct image but apparently some random image of the plugin.

    The same issue also exists in the Customize Toolbars dialog where it also schows the wrong images.

    I will attach the source code for a plugin based on David Hoyle's example in his book, so I am pretty sure there isn't a mistake. But the first time I noticed this problem was in GExperts. The same code that worked fine in all older Delphi versions now also shows the wrong images.

     

    This corresponds to the GExperts bug report #331: Editor Toolbar Configuration buttons

     

    Please vote for it.

     

    If any of the other plugin developers has got an idea how to work around this issue, I'm open for suggestions.

  25. Posted

    14 hours ago, cupwalker said:

    It doesn't stand anywhere that after 5 installations/registration and a year, you can send the perpetual license to trash. And as stated below they know what an annual license is and what a perpetual is.

    Just curious that there is no delphi "pro term license" and rad studio.

     

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    If that's the case, take them to court. I'm pretty sure that's illegal in most countries.

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