Renate Schaaf

Yet another hoop to jump through.. Why are they making it so hard? Thanks for the link, I'll check it out. Renate

Just bought it for those sleepless nights, Thanks!! Renate

Please excuse my lack of knowledge here, I'm just starting to work with this Android stuff. I guess so. Well, I think I know how to do this, but that wouldn't help the user to pick to right video file, I need the thumbnails. By browers I mean that every app that processes the file type gets displayed at the top of the window that opens. For example Google fotos, Samsung gallery, ... I just want to open the documents folder ("Eigene Dateien" in my German tablet).

That's my limited impression after a break of 12 years from Delphi. I paid for all versions up to 2006, now I'm using the community edition, and I am grateful for having the chance this way to come up to par with the new stuff, so I'm a bit reluctant to bash them. I answered here because of general interest in component design, not because I'm particularly interested in this component. This looks good, I have it tagged.

I didn't dare to say that, but that's what I thought:) Now I wonder whether there is a way to make this safe short of changing the source code or writing a wrapper component with a TNetHTTPClient as a subcomponent and exposing its things as needed, which seems to be a lot of work.

I'm a bit puzzled here, because usually it is a big no-no to assign code to a published event in a descendant component. Because the event is still published and anybody using your component can assign something else to this event and your added functionality is gone. Usually you should override the method which calls the event, add the functionality and call inherited. Only: Looking at the source code I see that this method (DoReceiveData) is both private and not virtual, so there's no chance to do it this way. I wonder whether there's a reason the Delphi developers did it that way, or why have they abandoned the usual component design patterns? Anyway, I would at least unpublish these events, along the lines in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53677049/hide-properties-and-events-in-new-component