DelphiUdIT

I didn't know previous access was that far back, I thought it stopped at the XE version.

You can use the last edition released (Rad Studio 12.3 Athens) But the packages are not free, and the code will have to be changed. A 16 year leap (especially external packages) will be laborious and not cheaper. I think that is better to talk with Embarcadero rappresentative and explain the situation, they can redirect you to a professional developer. Of course some member of this community can help you, but I think they can contact you in private. You will provide them more information about the application and your knowledge.

I don't think it's possible, if you don't have an Embarcadero subscription. And if you have it, I don't think that those packages are available anymore (most of them were not free).

@Uwe Raabe sorry, I mistakenly understood it was advice...

Really? My notepad does not and has never done such an operation on its own, until I force it It reads a file with an encoding and saves it with the same encoding. And the only real usable option is to convert a file in ANSI to Unicode (UTF-xx) and not the "other way around". Converting a data that can have thousands (at least) of combinations into a data that can only have 256 makes no sense. In these cases you only work with ANSI encoding without any conversion (as in the case of iterations with old industrial systems or very old equipment). Taking into account that those who use Delphi normally develop for a multitude of "clients" (I mean develop applications that can be used in various environments) thinking of doing something similar is really a risk.

I don't know why that page present those data. but in many "converters" and also looking at Unicode BMP, surrogate and extended this combination is not valid. This is the right coding (with chinese char for test, all confirmed with UTF online services):

Why someone would do this ? Depends on places where you do it (I mean OS, LANGUAGE, ....) you will have differents results.

Like I wrote, there is also Elapsed, that is based on TTimeSpawn: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/System.TimeSpan.TTimeSpan You can use that advanced record ...

(P.S.: I refer to Windows OS). First of all, take care that what you write in Delphi IDE may be in Ansi or UTF and depend on this your characters my be misunderstanding after read from files (in the laste release of Delphi those things work better). Second, string type in Delphi is equivalent to Unicode string (UTF-16). Normally the compiler does all the conversions needed, but in same cases it cannot. Look this for you convenience: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/String_Types_(Delphi) Look better at you characters encoding: c3 8d may not be the exact character did you exepect:

You can use from unit System.DIagnostics the TStopWatch "record": Uses System.Diagnostics; var a:TStopWatch; begin a := TStopWatch.StartNew; .... .... a.Stop; ShowMessage(a.ElapsedMilliseconds.toString); end; For better info: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Athens/en/System.Diagnostics.TStopwatch P.S.: you have also the "Elapsed" property that maintain the features you required (but you can simple calculate them from "milliseconds".

Instaead to use getit from IDE, you can try this from cmdline: getitcmd -c=useonline getitcmd --list= -f=all If you find it in the list you can install it from the cmdline: getitcmd -i=WindowsAPIfromWinMD-1.0

Uhmm strange, WINMD was released before the release of 12.1 and doesn't require a subscription.

Uhmm, I don't understand very well the issue, but you can move and resize the component toolbar how and where you want .... and not only the component ...

OT: I normally do it during summer days on a beach but with a Windows PC (and not for a small scripts) .... drinking beer and looking at the sea. I can't wait for summer to finally arrive. Sorry for the OT but reading the post made me feel nostalgic for summer.

Start looking this:

The links point to a russian forum with a topic like this. Is not a spam ... it's just a clumsy reference.

It should be for 64 bit Modern C++ (bcc64x): https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/BCC64X

These things will happen more and more often in the future, as Let's encrypt will no longer send certificate expiration notices.

Hello everyone. From a post in the international Lazarus forum ( https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,71183.msg555336.html#msg555336 ) I noticed the use of the "absolute" directive to actually initialize an array of records. By defining an initialized array of strings, these are then fully matched to an array of records. I knew about the "absolute" directive, but honestly I have never seen it applied (or at least I have never noticed it, I vaguely remember seeing it in Indy). Apart from other ways to obtain the same results, does the definition as it was made have any contraindications other than the pure reading of an element of the record (I think of its writing or passing as a "var" to some processing method)? Sample: const TABLE_SIZE = 118; //118*3 -1 = array size TABLE_DATA: array[0..pred(TABLE_SIZE * 3)] of string = ( 'H', 'Hydrogen', '1.00794', 'He', 'Helium', '4.002602', 'Li', 'Lithium', '6.941', 'Be', 'Beryllium', '9.012182', 'B', 'Boron', '10.811', 'C', 'Carbon', '12.0107', 'N', 'Nitrogen', '14.0067', 'O', 'Oxygen', '15.9994', 'F', 'Fluorine', '18.9984032', 'Ne', 'Neon', '20.1797', 'Na', 'Sodium', '22.98976...', 'Mg', 'Magnesium', '24.305', 'Al', 'Aluminium', '26.9815386', 'Si', 'Silicon', '28.0855', 'P', 'Phosphorus', '30.973762', 'S', 'Sulfur', '32.065', 'Cl', 'Chlorine', '35.453', 'Ar', 'Argon', '39.948', 'K', 'Potassium', '39.948', 'Ca', 'Calcium', '40.078', 'Sc', 'Scandium', '44.955912', 'Ti', 'Titanium', '47.867', 'V', 'Vanadium', '50.9415', 'Cr', 'Chromium', '51.9961', 'Mn', 'Manganese', '54.938045', 'Fe', 'Iron', '55.845', 'Co', 'Cobalt', '58.933195', 'Ni', 'Nickel', '58.6934', 'Cu', 'Copper', '63.546', 'Zn', 'Zinc', '65.38', 'Ga', 'Gallium', '69.723', 'Ge', 'Germanium', '72.63', 'As', 'Arsenic', '74.9216', 'Se', 'Selenium', '78.96', 'Br', 'Bromine', '79.904', 'Kr', 'Krypton', '83.798', 'Rb', 'Rubidium', '85.4678', 'Sr', 'Strontium', '87.62', 'Y', 'Yttrium', '88.90585', 'Zr', 'Zirconium', '91.224', 'Nb', 'Niobium', '92.90628', 'Mo', 'Molybdenum', '95.96', 'Tc', 'Technetium', '(98)', 'Ru', 'Ruthenium', '101.07', 'Rh', 'Rhodium', '102.9055', 'Pd', 'Palladium', '106.42', 'Ag', 'Silver', '107.8682', 'Cd', 'Cadmium', '112.411', 'In', 'Indium', '114.818', 'Sn', 'Tin', '118.71', 'Sb', 'Antimony', '121.76', 'Te', 'Tellurium', '127.6', 'I', 'Iodine', '126.90447', 'Xe', 'Xenon', '131.293', 'Cs', 'Caesium', '132.9054', 'Ba', 'Barium', '132.9054', 'La', 'Lanthanum', '138.90547', 'Ce', 'Cerium', '140.116', 'Pr', 'Praseodymium', '140.90765', 'Nd', 'Neodymium', '144.242', 'Pm', 'Promethium', '(145)', 'Sm', 'Samarium', '150.36', 'Eu', 'Europium', '151.964', 'Gd', 'Gadolinium', '157.25', 'Tb', 'Terbium', '158.92535', 'Dy', 'Dysprosium', '162.5', 'Ho', 'Holmium', '164.93032', 'Er', 'Erbium', '167.259', 'Tm', 'Thulium', '168.93421', 'Yb', 'Ytterbium', '173.054', 'Lu', 'Lutetium', '174.9668', 'Hf', 'Hafnium', '178.49', 'Ta', 'Tantalum', '180.94788', 'W', 'Tungsten', '183.84', 'Re', 'Rhenium', '186.207', 'Os', 'Osmium', '190.23', 'Ir', 'Iridium', '192.217', 'Pt', 'Platinum', '195.084', 'Au', 'Gold', '196.966569', 'Hg', 'Mercury', '200.59', 'Tl', 'Thallium', '204.3833', 'Pb', 'Lead', '207.2', 'Bi', 'Bismuth', '208.9804', 'Po', 'Polonium', '(209)', 'At', 'Astatine', '(210)', 'Rn', 'Radon', '(222)', 'Fr', 'Francium', '(223)', 'Ra', 'Radium', '(226)', 'Ac', 'Actinium', '(227)', 'Th', 'Thorium', '232.03806', 'Pa', 'Protactinium', '231.0588', 'U', 'Uranium', '238.02891', 'Np', 'Neptunium', '(237)', 'Pu', 'Plutonium', '(244)', 'Am', 'Americium', '(243)', 'Cm', 'Curium', '(247)', 'Bk', 'Berkelium', '(247)', 'Cf', 'Californium', '(251)', 'Es', 'Einstenium', '(252)', 'Fm', 'Fermium', '(257)', 'Md', 'Mendelevium', '(258)', 'No', 'Nobelium', '(259)', 'Lr', 'Lawrencium', '(262)', 'Rf', 'Rutherfordium', '(267)', 'Db', 'Dubnium', '(268)', 'Sg', 'Seaborgium', '(271)', 'Bh', 'Bohrium', '(272)', 'Hs', 'Hassium', '(270)', 'Mt', 'Meitnerium', '(276)', 'Ds', 'Darmstadium', '(281)', 'Rg', 'Roentgenium', '(280)', 'Cn', 'Copernicium', '(285)', 'Nh', 'Nihonium', '(286)', 'Fl', 'Flerovium', '(289)', 'Mc', 'Moscovium', '(290)', 'Lv', 'Livermorium', '(293)', 'Ts', 'Tennessine', '(294)', 'Og', 'Oganesson', '(294)'); var Elements : array[0..pred(TABLE_SIZE)] of record Symbol : string; Name : string; Mass : string; end absolute TABLE_DATA; { absolute, don't program without it !! } procedure XXXXX begin for var i in Elements do begin ShowMessage(i.Symbol+' / '+i.Name+' / '+i.Mass); end; end; Thanks EDIT: the question is for TABLE_DATA defined as "var" of course, not as "const" ...

Look this for the patch: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-12-3-april-patch-available/ ONLY if you install the patch from IDE GUI the update will appear in the "About" box. The PAServer should be copied manually to the destination target (from the Repository path that you have indicated). About the personality, I don't know about it but may be is some issue about license ?

Lool, I always use Assigned(...) hoping that one day or another it will solve all the situations (either nil or an invalid pointer) 🙂

You are right, those were my fear.

The use of pred here is only the result of copy / paste operation. But I use pred sometimes, especially when there is a dimension of an array in play. In a for / to cycle instead I use normally "-1".

It is not mine, I'm not a chemical tech. I only see the use of the "absolute" directive and ask if there is any issue (in assignement for example). By the way I have tested some uses case and i don't found any issue, it's like a normal array of records. Like I wrote, I had know that there are other methods, I was only curious about "absolute" used in array of records. Thank you all for your interest.