Lajos Juhász

5 minutes ago, PavelOu said:

4) when I edit a post myself I usually know why I edit it .. so I think the question about why I something edit is needless .

it's a comment for other users of the forum. In case you don't want to communicate for others you don't have to write anything.

7 hours ago, Yaron said:

My app is very simple, so I was thinking I may find a "compilation" partner that would just compile the source code for me on the latest version of Delphi.

An issue could be also that a newer version of Delphi could require source code changes to be able to work with newer version of Android. Please do remember that nor platform support (due to changes at platform level) and fmx are not solid. From version to version there are required changes in order to get a correct output.

This is really not enough information to help you. You should post some code and the error messages that you recieve.

In Delphi components are not binary compatible between major releases. You will have to modify your existing components or obtain the version for Delphi 11. After that you have to compile and install runtime packages. That's the main reason why there is no automatic option to obtain installed components from a previous versions.

PS. Usually it requires a minimal change in the source to move a component to the next version of the Delphi.

In case of the same version of the Delphi in 2 separate computers there is a migration tool, I've never used it.

34 minutes ago, softtouch said:

Not sue lua is ok for my project. I saw it does not know anything about regex.

Regex is a new requirement in this thread.

Pascal Script was also a good scripting language it's unfortunate that is dying slowly.

34 minutes ago, Uwe Raabe said:

https://www.idera.com/ppc/uptime-infrastructure-monitor/it-performance-monitoring

Nice idea, maybe they should by a licence.

The Quality Portal is back online. Docwiki is still have issues, it starts loading (blue background) then:

 

#0 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportConnectionError('No route to hos...')
#1 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(749): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()
#2 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(2801): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(0, Array, false)
#3 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LCStoreDB.php(45): wfGetDB(-1)

1 hour ago, DelphiUdIT said:

I use some $DEFINE and I never notice malfunctions.

I don't use it often. In this case I have decided that instead of commenting out the code for debugging the COM communication I am will place it inside a conditional block. The IDE went completely mad when I closed the IDE it was an Access Violation.

You wrote that you want to install a runtime package in that case you cannot add a 64 bit bpl to required, runtime package must be 32. The Delphi IDE is 32 bit it requires a 32 bit bpl cannot load a 64 bit version (from the name w64 I guess it's a 64 bit package).

Anyway the 32 bit version of the QuickReport package must be on a Windows path. You can add it for the Delphi IDE (Tools - Options - Environment Variables) and select path at the User System Overrides.

It's the Windows path that you have to update. Since BPL is a special type of a DLL the OS involved in loading the required packages. When a designtime package (that you want to install) is referencing the runtime package (it can also be a single package runtime + designtime) the OS (Windows) must locate it. Setting the search path will not resolve the bug. 

Recently (maybe D11) they've changed if a part of code is inactive the conditional symbol is not active the conditional code sections are greyed out. I'm not sure if that introduced this bug or something else. Of course after I have restarted the IDE it's working ok.

I believe that the implementation of the shiny feature to show which part of the code is active broke the IDE (Delphi 12).  

I've tried to enter:

{$Define DebugCOM} 

Nothing special, unfortunately after this the editor stopped receiving keyboard imput, I was still able to navigate using the mouse but when I tried to close the project the error message was:

Instance of Class TEditSource has dangling reference count of 1.
 

Did anyone noticed something similair? I would like to create a test case to report it to the QP.

8 minutes ago, Dalija Prasnikar said:

FWIW, you can forget about software jokes, it is piece of hardware that died.

any proof?

35 minutes ago, PeterPanettone said:

Today is Tuesday. What kind of problems are there?

It's top secret. In case of docwiki we can get a backtrace:

 

#0 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(1134): Wikimedia\Rdbms\Database->reportConnectionError('Connection time...')
#1 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/libs/rdbms/loadbalancer/LoadBalancer.php(749): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->reportConnectionError()
#2 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/GlobalFunctions.php(2801): Wikimedia\Rdbms\LoadBalancer->getConnection(0, Array, false)
#3 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LCStoreDB.php(45): wfGetDB(-1)
#4 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(412): LCStoreDB->get('en', 'deps')
#5 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(458): LocalisationCache->isExpired('en')
#6 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(334): LocalisationCache->initLanguage('en')
#7 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(371): LocalisationCache->loadItem('en', 'magicWords')
#8 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/cache/localisation/LocalisationCache.php(292): LocalisationCache->loadSubitem('en', 'magicWords', 'tree')
#9 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/languages/Language.php(3177): LocalisationCache->getSubitem('en', 'magicWords', 'tree')
#10 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/MagicWord.php(352): Language->getMagic(Object(MagicWord))
#11 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/MagicWord.php(280): MagicWord->load('tree')
#12 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/parser/Parser.php(4848): MagicWord::get('tree')
#13 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/extensions/TreeAndMenu/TreeAndMenu_body.php(24): Parser->setFunctionHook('tree', Array)
#14 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/Setup.php(948): TreeAndMenu->setup()
#15 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/includes/WebStart.php(88): require_once('/var/www/html/s...')
#16 /var/www/html/shared/BaseWiki31/index.php(39): require('/var/www/html/s...')
#17 {main}

The quality portal have only a generic error message: Sorry, an error occurred trying to log you in - please try again.

For getit also only generic error message that it failed to load data.

It is most probably since Friday. There are posts on this server about the new trend that embarcadero likes to take the servers down.

(If you can not download you cannot complain about the bugs.)

When the quality portal is online you can create a ticket. Maybe one day Embarcadero can deliver a descent welcome page.

56 minutes ago, Cristian Peța said:

What is wrong with Sleep()

You cannot terminate the thread while it's blocked by sleep.

+1 for SimpleEvent and Waitfor.

You cannot add a property without a new class. If you don't want to extend the component you can store the additional information in a dictionary or in other data structure.

I've tested:

uses
  MMSystem;

procedure TForm1.Timer1Timer(Sender: TObject);
begin
  sndPlaySound('C:\Windows\Media\Tada.wav',
    SND_NODEFAULT Or SND_ASYNC);
end;

no problems.

4 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

Didn't Embarcadero announce that they "improved the experience" of the IDE and Delphi programs when run in an RDP session? I'm not sure which Delphi version this was, but I think it wasn't 12. Maybe 11?

I believe it was starting with 11 and "enhanced" in 12. I know that they wrote 12 should be much better than earlier versions.

You install them as any other component. First you compile the runitme packages then the designtime and install them.

You can find an answer at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF417, use only A-Z.

9 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

If nobody files a bug report, there will be no fix.

If you enter a bug report without a test case they will close it as works as expected, I've been there a couple of times. Even if you submit a reproducible case the bug can stay opened for a decade.

I sometimes also get a bug that the selected property shows a value of a different property. I cannot enter a bug report as it's impossible to find out when that can happen. Also search in D12 is working even worse than in Delphi 11.2, here also I have had no time to create an example.

I hope we can get a fix for some issues soon as we're moving to beta phase of our application.