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use TPath and change before drawing again or use TObjectList and always draw the full objectlist , individual items are rects .....

I'm suffering some strange issue, guessing that the function fileexist will not work 100 % stable, if I check for filenames with several spaces .... filenamestr := 'my report from home.csv' if fileexists () then begin .... end else begin ..... end; on some computers, some folders, ... this seems to work, other computer and folder structure this call fails ....

always full path like: variation : OS language, Computer hardware ,......

the identical setup as mentioned here , I did on second computer, now with MYSQL database server how to evaluate the correct connection parameters using Delphi and firedac @ LINUX

I'm running 2 MSSQL Servers on my Computer MSSQL Server #1 : installed on WIN 10 Host OS on my Computer MSSQL Server #2 : installed on VM Ware LINUX ( UBUNTU 18.04) Client, I also installed AZURE data studio inside the VM Ware OS Q1 : How to connect from AZURE data studio to SQL Server #2, I failed with different settings so far :-(, what will be the correct server name ?? Q2 : How to connect to MSSQL Server #1 on HOST OS ?? Computername\sqlexpress does not work from AZURE data studio, but this works fine connecting directly from HOST OS to this MSSQL server I#m using VM network settings = Bridged