Carlos Tré

In a session about FireDAC Q&A I'd think that'd have been an easy one, after all Firebird 4 is here for at least 4 or 5 months. But now I'm peace with that, I'll have to wait for update 1 to rollout. Straying a bit off the topic, I watched a replay of you session and would like to thank you fir that, until then I wasn't aware of the DataSetAdapter for JSON. Not only for that, but your blog's article on Live Templates that led me an old article by Nick Hodges that was just what I've been looking for ages. I even suggested during Nick's session that he could write a book on the matter.

But isn't it strange that they found the time to discuss "delphee" x "delpheye"? If there wasn't any time spent over such a silly dispute, I wouldn't have been do frustrated. Cheers, Carlos

Thank you very much, Dmitry. Do you have am ETA for Update 1? Best regards. Carlos

They preferred to answer questions on UniDAC, MySQL and, believe me, there were answers (yes, more than one) to delph-ee and delph-eye.

Dear Lajos, Thank you very much for taking the time to help me, I really appreciated it. It seems hard to believe, but I've just asked the same question in DelphiCon's session on FireDAC Q&A and was completely ignored. It seems as if Embarcadero is not very keen on supporting Firebird. Best regards, Carlos

Dear fellow programmers, Can anyone tell me if Firebird 4 is fully supported by Delphi/FireDAC? Back in July I read a post, in a Google groups stating that there not support. Yesterday I tried again and the story was the same. During a talk by Carlos Canty yesterday it seemed to me that there were people already using it in production, so I am a little bit confused here. Has FireDAC been updated to work with FB4? If yes, since which version? I'm on Delphi 10.4.2 and just waiting for things workwise to calm a bit to migrate to Delphi 11. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Carlos

Hi @Himie Have you sorted this out already? Just out of curiosity I tested the code above in a FMX project, and it worked just fine - Delphi 10.4.2 Enterprise, Windows 10. I really can't tell why it wouldn't work in 10.3 Community ( but I'm no Delphi guru 🙂 ).

Well, let's add to the confusion a little bit: I left this thing completely alone as I have more pressing matters to address but, much to my surprise, yesterday I went for a Ctrl+Shif+Alt+D attached to a duplicate line command I use all the time, and as I hit Ctrl+Shif+ALt+F by mistake I noticed it had started working as expected at some point. I can't make any sense of it, Ctrl-D is still listed as the context menu hot key, and the only things in between are some windows updates ans restarts, and the latest IDE patch that, I guess, is not related at all. Go figure! This late reply is meant only as a feedback to those who kindly dedicated some time to help and educate me. Once again, thank you all very much. -- Carlos

@Achim KalwaCtrl+Enter is an old habit from the Brief days, way before Delphi entered the scene. I think it needs some tweaking, I don't quite like its behavior on long lines. As it is ver rare and I don't have much free time and lack the expertise and knowledge to work it out, I guess it will stay this way for the moment. I usually turn "English language mode" on to code as it is consistent with the programming language itself, but when I wrote that piece I was particularly mad at unnecessary anglicization that stormed into Brazilian Portuguese, particularly in TI lingo, and overreacted; 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to come back and comment, I appreciated it very much.

My pleasure.

I wrote it myself a few years ago, based on an article written by Cary Jensen that you can find here. Attached is the code for the expert in its current state, the changing of the format source key assignment is still a work in progress. Editor.zip

That's exactly what I think. I'll toy with it a little more over the weekend and see if I make any progress on this.

Thank you very much for your answer. I already had an expert in place to change the editor's toggle insert / overwrite mode for I am a lousy typist and was going crazy hitting the insert key when home was intended. As for a hammer everything looks like a nail, I thought that was the way to go. This is what I did: procedure TMelhoriasEditor.ReassignFormatSource; var LNTAServices : INTAServices; LActionList : TContainedActionList ; LAction : TContainedAction ; LActionName : string; begin Assert(Assigned(BorlandIDEServices)); LNTAServices := BorlandIDEServices as INTAServices; Assert(Assigned(LNTAServices)); LActionList := LNTAServices.ActionList; Assert(Assigned(LActionList)); for LAction in LActionList do begin LActionName := LAction.Name; if LActionName.Equals('actFormatSource') then begin LAction.Shortcut := (vkF or scCtrl or scShift or scAlt); Exit; end; end; end; It changed the main menu entry shortcut to the intended Ctrl+Shift+Alt+F key combination, but ir doesn't fire the action. Also, as noted, the local menu entry still shows associated with Ctrl+D and would fire it in case I remove its association with "MatarTecla", a do-nothing method. This leaves wondering if there's a way to get the TKeyBindingProc value other than the way (IOTAKeyboardServices.LookupKeyBinding) I tried. Or if I just didn't figured out the way to work it properly. Unfortunately this seems to be way above my league. Again, than you all for your precious time helping me. -- Best, Carlos

I saw that, I just couldn't get to anywhere from there. Thank you very much for putting me in the right track. Best, Carlos

Dear fellows, I'd like to change the format code action assignment to Ctrl+Alt+Shfit+F, because Ctrl+D is very easy to hit unintentionally. Based on articles I found ou there I was able to simply kill it, but now I need to simply reassign its hot key, and I am at a total loss here. I have a very vage remembrance of coming across sample code for OTAPI that was an actual keyboard mapping, it was quite a while ago , I'm not sure I really did. I took a wild guess from what found and tried The relevant section of wat I did so far is procedure TMelhoriasEditor.BindKeyboard(const BindingServices: IOTAKeyBindingServices); var LBindingRec : TKeyBindingRec; LFmtKeyBidingProc : TKeyBindingProc; begin (BorlandIDEServices as IOTAKeyboardServices) .LookupKeyBinding([Shortcut(Ord('D'), [ssCtrl])],LBindingRec); LFmtKeyBidingProc := LBindingRec.KeyProc; BindingServices.AddKeyBinding( [ Shortcut( Ord('F'), [ssCtrl,ssAlt,ssShift] ) ], LFmtKeyBidingProc, nil ); BindingServices.AddKeyBinding([Shortcut(VK_INSERT, [ssCtrl,ssAlt,ssShift])], AlternarModoInsercao, nil); BindingServices.AddKeyBinding([Shortcut(VK_INSERT, [])], MatarTecla, nil); BindingServices.AddKeyBinding([Shortcut(VK_RETURN, [ssCtrl])], InserirLinhaAbaixo, nil); BindingServices.AddKeyBinding([Shortcut(VK_RETURN, [ssShift])], InserirLinhaAbaixo, nil); // BindingServices.AddKeyBinding([Shortcut(Ord('D'), [ssCtrl])], MatarTecla, nil); end; Could some kind soul put me in the right track, please? Also, am I dreaming about having seen such code for a keyboard mapping? Thank you very much. -- Carlos