Pat Foley

If its not elevation  In the past I seen Error code 5 after the machine is awakened from sleep mode.

Drilling into SysUtils shows SAccessDenied which is 'File access denied'

so lost of elevation? 

I suspect flooding in Texas.  This map shows some outages down there.

In Feb 2021 polar vortex may have caused similar issue.    

Also your article on LIBSUFFIX https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/advice-for-delphi-library-authors must be how

the BDSs can find their vintage BPLs. 

My get by is putting shortcuts in the Desktop to select when using add Design Package.

When I mentioned register I should have said install package.    Open install packages under the Component menu.

Use add to add Startpageidennn.bpl by clicking on it.  Here's a table of version numbers. 

above didn't work. 

1 hour ago, pgraham9999 said:

bI see the option in 10.3 (community edition) but not in Seattle.

Main Menu on 10.3,10.4.2 Tabs  has Welcome Page.  10.2 has a Toolbar for the code Browser. Selecting a dropdown brings up menu button for Welcome page.(It's tab is named Browser).  10.2 is where I got on.    I wonder if you to register Startpageide260.bpl !!!!   That's the version number for 20 or 10.3  You having older version 10.0 should be a smaller number.      

Select Welcome Page menu item in view menu. Tested in !0.3 and 10.4

What about using Model View as a start and save each UML Class Diagram.   In the past I put start up 

data in non visual components at design time and years later spent a little time trying 

to determine how the program was able to start... Looking at the DFM component's event assignments is another

part of how the program works.  

Here's a program for cad files.  https://www.iseekcorp.com//copy-of-cadseek-adviser   

Try streaming Tpanel with child objects in it 

object Panel1: TPanel
  Left = 536
  Top = 24
  Width = 251
  Height = 106
  Caption = 'Panel1'
  ParentBackground = False
  TabOrder = 0
  object Button2: TButton
    Left = 24
    Top = 16
    Width = 75
    Height = 25
    Caption = 'Button1'
    TabOrder = 0
    OnClick = Button1Click
  end
  object Edit1: TEdit
    Left = 112
    Top = 72
    Width = 121
    Height = 21
    TabOrder = 1
    Text = 'Edit1'
  end
end

Simply copy paste these into a form in design window. then follow  delphi - How to save and restore a form? - Stack Overflow  

There's some D5 code for adjusting 10MHz transmitters elsewhere on site 

https://vk4adc.com/web/index.php/software-projects/55-vk4adc-utils/181-gps2time

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When I run the app,  the progress bar's position increases.  The problem is when I click on something else within the form.  The application immediately

hangs (Application Not Responding).   The application is still running though.  After some time, the progress form closes and the data is displayed.

 

Disable the controls

When data is loaded have future event enable controls.

Rather than a progress bar have windows 10 olympic ring showing until future event happens.

Question Is the modal box selections touchable?  Should be able to change settings just touching and tapping.

I would only surface the keyboard for passwords and text edits 

The Tnumberbox should be just the ticket here.  

After saving as new form name

Go in Object inspector and change the name of the form.  the form new name is applied in the implementation as well.

Or simply show controls in sequence setting visibility as needed.

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You are correct. The code uses expressions like:

cx := E or W;

grid[ny, nx] := grid[ny, nx] or S;

You might consider white boarding or build simple model.  Consider N,S,E,W as UI.  Use a heading for instance.  So the instance turns left West or right East when heading North.  Heading South turning left means heading East on the UI.  Then the business of quarter turns could

be solved by quadants or (heading + 360 +/90) mod 360. 

Or

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TDirection = (dirN, dirS, dirW, dirE)

given

TDirection = (dirN, dirE, dirS, dirW) // note changed

heading: TDirection;

Const

quarterTurn = 1

halfTurn = 2

//change direction by adding subtracting  the turn 

 Heading := TDirection((4 + ord(Heading) + quarterTurn)mod 4); 

I run 10.3 together with 10.4.1 and now 10.4.2.  10.2 seems old school  

 some of the trouble is the windows need destroyed downto in for loop. Destroying the top window first changes the indexes of the window. So with for

LItem in LItem in FRegisteredStyleHooks do
    LItem.Value.Free;  We need a "downin" 

source VCl.themes line 7510.  My take.  

TAppBuilder
...
WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.1629f15_r56_ad1 

This form found in search menu item Find Class shows whatever namespace is scoped in the editor.

Once a "class" or whatever is in the namespace is selected it moves to it in the edit window. The find

references can then be clicked.  These "gems" would be nice if they didn't hang the program.     

Was thinking that its not getting up to 6 letters...  So you saying simply throwing 6 dice with 52 lettered faces take more 2^10 throws. 

shouldn't cPhrases array be 0 based? 

Maybe a build all projects will surface them

I been having the same issues with some custom components added to a package.  I renamed the old BPLs to BPLxxs and seemed to have fixed it. //The IDE uses BPLs for showing components in design 

Have you used shift+ctrl+F to look for compxxx.    When it was happening the component disappeared taking its method assignments with it.  I would start second IDE and load back up copy to copy and paste aberrant component with property and method assignments. // When compiler detects unitsearchpath error I cancel loading fix the path first.  

If you sanitized your system could the problem be transported in the myProject.dproj?   Maybe compare with earlier dproj?   10.2.3 (is Stoic does not "leave the room" or disappear like 10.4) when using find class in search menu then control B to see paths in IDE code editor.  

Thanks.

would creating a new form be good solution for this case.    

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• There are the Explicit* properties in the dfm which are storing the design time positions and sizes. 

How to use Explicit properties to restore positions?  Iteration or Is there simple revert message undocumented somewhere.   

I been having the same issues with some custom components added to a package.  I renamed the old BPLs to BPLxxs and seemed to have fixed it.

Have you used shift+ctrl+F to look for compxxx.    When it was happening the component disappeared taking its method assignments with it.  I would start second IDE and load back up copy to copy and paste aberrant component with property and method assignments. 

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meanwhile the mouse is over an entity in the editor

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6255248/controlclick-on-function-is-not-working-in-delphi-xe    

Just hovering over a unpathed unit in an uses clause can cause a quick ending.  Issue with browsing path?

The form screen position button in Design just happens to be in Bermuda triangle hot zone lower right hand code scrollbar edge.