RCrandall

Thank you both!

I'm following along with the LLM chatter but I honestly have no idea which of the 3 offered in Delphi 12.2 might be the best to start with. I'm Delphi-only and writing a fairly standard Windows app - have been for going on 20 years. My success with ChatGPT has not been good so far but now I want to get serious and give it a proper try. I'm not sure there is much to choose from between the 3 right now but if anyone has a clear recommendation for one and not the others then I would love to hear it. Thanks, Rob C

I'm still not seeing KSVC 7 in GetIt for 11.3 as of today. The link above seems to indicate that they are restoring the GetIt libraries as fast as they can but this one is not there yet. This is for a D11.3 install from the latest ISO. Hopefully it will not be much longer now.

I'm pretty quiet but I too visit every day and am always interested in the high-quality discussion here. Every now and then I ask a question and have had wonderful responses. Thank you for all your hard work and all the best going forward. Best, Rob C

I have most of my third-party libraries converted or updated already. I just need this one and JEDI JCL/JVCL to support Delphi 12 and I am good to go. Is anyone aware of any specific news about D12 support in OmniThreadLibrary? Thanks, Rob C

"Expand unit scope names" - that was it. Thanks for the speedy reply and I appreciate all the other comments too. Rob C

I am returning to MMX after a long break and I'm exploring it all again. I dimly recall seeing that the order of the Uses clauses can affect compilation speed, a problem I'm having, but I'm far from sure of that. Is this the benefit of formatting the list of used units? Or is to improve readability, or some other reason? Inquiring minds want to know, thanks, Rob C

I too would love to see a solution for this. I have read up on the problem but have no practical way to tackle it yet and I don't have the smarts to just create something from first principles. I would pay good money for a utility that just does it and could clean up my code base (20 years and counting) in a day. Sigh.

The absence of licensing info is troubling, now that you mention it. My friend has the paid-for source but I will alert him about this aspect of it Now that I have turned this up his interest in it seems to have cooled off anyway but I think he should move from D5 to something a little more current just on general principles and someday he might well. I have had the odd component orphaned on me in the past but it was always either open-sourced (e.g. THmtlViewer by Dave Baldwin) or there was something else I could easily jump to. It feels a bit odd to be caught out like this and not be able to recommend a suitable current alternative, but I guess that happens and it finally caught up with me with this one. Thanks, Rob

Fr0st.Brutal - I'm new to this and I just assumed it was usable if it was on GitHub. I spent no time (yet) on the licensing nuances. What do you see that sets off alarm bells? I want to respect the legal rights of all involved of course. Thanks, Rob C

Holy smokes, that was fast! I am feeling chagrined that it was in fact open sourced and I did not spot that when I looked. Thanks very much for this! I will grab it now and commence to play, Rob C

There was a VCL component called TGlobe during the Delphi 5 to 2006 era that has since disappeared. I know someone who as the full source for the D5 version and is still using Delphi 5 because of this. I rather incautiously offered to see what I can do to help. My ‘evening and weekend’ project is to see if I can update it to Delphi 11. TGlobe is still listed on Delphi Super Page, but the author has disappeared and the TGlobe web site is for sale. There is no sign that the code has been open sourced. I have been allowed to see the source for version 4.07, and the last version on the Delphi Super Page is 5.11. If anyone has 5.11 with source, I would pay your $50 US for it just to get that much further along. Failing this, I need to do this the hard way and I’m definitely out of my sphere of competence. I used Delphi 5 back in the day but don’t have it now, and the only book I have that might be relevant is Ray Konopka’s “Developing Custom Delphi Components” from 1996. This might in fact be all I need, but if there are web resources that anyone can point to, it would be helpful to know. This is not a make or break project, but if I can help this person I would like to. Does anyone out there have TGlobe sitting on their harddrive, or know of a killer tutorial on upgrading components from the distant past? Thanks in advance, Rob C

So I now see. It was nice to know that I could get help here and also that I still had enough smarts to figure it out on my own (eventually). About half an hour of doing that I noticed that there was an update and lo and behold, this issue seems to have been addressed in it too. Everything just came together! My role is to figure this all out for the rest of our dev team and now I can just smile and say "get all the updates first and everything will be like the last times". That is my true goal here. THMTLViewer has been great for us and I resisted changing away from it unless there was a really good reason. It looks like we can stay with it for a while yet. Thanks all, Rob C

Yes, all seems to be good with these two libraries now in D 11.2. Now I can install the other 3rd party items and give it a proper try! Writing this out at length clarified my own thinking and helped me spot the problem. Cheers all, Rob C

Hey, I think I just figured it out. My 11.2 library path for looking up DCP files was mangled. It looks like this: The path is missing "\$(Platform)" at the end. I bet that is all this was. Testing now.