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Delphi 12.3 presentation is cooming 🙂

I use UPX by decade without any issue also with Virustotal and installed BitDefender. I guess it expand program in RAM. My 38.681.088 byte exe are compressed with LZMA to 10.189.312 byte with "upx-4.2.2.exe --best --lzma normal-version.exe upx-version.exe"

There are other projects, eg: Chandra, Infero, jetLua, LMEngine, etc which are disapeared from git... Are become obsolete and replaced by some newone ?

Currently, working is only TLS 1.2, but there is a git to add TLS 1.3 ( https://github.com/JPeterMugaas/TaurusTLS.git ) I've downloaded and checket it but I haven't yet need time to try to extract sources use it... I try then from some weeks (I'm in releasing of current software version).

I've downloaded (cloned) Indy repository from github (https://github.com/IndySockets/Indy.git). Manually copied needed file in a source folder of my project. Added that folder in the project search path. Created the class only with code (no IDE objects placement) so I use only custom sources for Indy. This permitted me to add changes and work with latest git repository code, without remove native Indy tools from IDE.

I use a lot of third-party libraries and exclusively from source so the compiled code grows a lot. I may not have understood what is meant by “code is generated” but it is almost all hand-made code. This also includes compilers of various languages used by the system, for which, yes some of it is auto-generated (I use Gold Parser), but a few thousand lines. The program also different script languages, server types, and there the code grows. Empirically maybe I wrote 40% by hand, the rest is libraries, data, and different versions of UI.

Personally, I held out as long as I could with BDS2006, whose problems I knew very well, which I had circumvented with tricks of all kinds. In the meantime, however, I always updated (purchased) the sucessive versions without ever using them. At a certain point I gave up, as, tired of using third-party libraries to have a partially Unicode program and of the memory limitations imposed by the 32-bit system (I use a lot of memory), I paid the price for years of dormancy and switched to Sydney and now Athens. Developing has become much easier, and all the things added to the language over the years allow me to greatly reduce the time required in going from concept to final code. I have fairly large projects (22 million lines of code) that I compile in both 32-bit and 64-bit, although recently I have been distributing only 64-bit versions, customers stick to the streetcar with their Win7 (it has not been supported by MS for years, and there is no point in persevering). Yes, 32-bit compilation is faster but as you can see from the image a complete build of the project I am working on, it is not that unbearable. The additional cost (twice the time) is worth the effort.

I've found it, and used, in official page of 7Zip: https://7-zip.org/sdk.html https://www.birtles.org.uk/programming/ It is old, true, but I use it to compress and send data over TCP server/client and works fine for my projects. There is also a, I guess 9.2 version, at: https://github.com/TetzkatLipHoka/LZMA/tree/main

THANKS, I missed this feature ! Now all works fine 🙂 #ITA: grazie mi hai salvato ore ed ore di pena nel dover reinstallare tutto da zero!.

How to register a TLB ? I'm used with regsvr32 DLL file but in this case Borland.Studio.Interop.dll don't is compatibile with regsvr32.

Ok but probably other things will go wrong with that. Seems that Borland.Studio.Interop interfaces are missing. There is a way to register them again without to reinstall the IDE ?

Today I'm getting crazy with Delphi Refactor > Rename Field (CTRL + SHIFT + E). Also starting a new IDE with a dummy project of only one variable the rename field get me the error: I don't know because message is in Italian language, but refactor is completly unusable. It notice that interface {B53A87B3-C809-4390-9BE2-6F1C168CF41D} is not registered. Athens 12.2 Patch 2. Any idea about that ?

Seems that Canvas object is not usable in DelphiFMX. c.BeginScene() does not works also passing (None, 0) or any other combination: import delphifmx as fmx img = fmx.Image(None) bmp = img.Bitmap print(f'Initial Image Width : {img.Width}') print(f'Initial Image Height : {img.Height}') print(f'Initial Image.Bitmap Width : {img.Bitmap.Width}') print(f'Initial Image.Bitmap Height : {img.Bitmap.Height}') bmp.Width = 200 bmp.Height = 200 img.Width = bmp.Width img.Height = bmp.Height print(f'Actual Image Width : {img.Width}') print(f'Actual Image Height : {img.Height}') print(f'Actual Image.Bitmap Width : {img.Bitmap.Width}') print(f'Actual Image.Bitmap Height : {img.Bitmap.Height}') c = bmp.Canvas print(f'Canvas Width : {c.Width}') print(f'Canvas Height : {c.Height}') r = fmx.RectF(0.0, 0.0, 100.0, 100.0) c.BeginScene(None, 0) try: pass #c.FillText(r, 'hello', True, 1, [], 'Center', 'Center') finally: c.EndScene() *** Remote Interpreter Reinitialized *** Initial Image Width : 50.0 Initial Image Height : 50.0 Initial Image.Bitmap Width : 0 Initial Image.Bitmap Height : 0 Actual Image Width : 200.0 Actual Image Height : 200.0 Actual Image.Bitmap Width : 200 Actual Image.Bitmap Height : 200 Canvas Width : 200 Canvas Height : 200 Traceback (most recent call last): File "D:\x\develop\qem\cnc_api_client_core_1\python\api_client_fmx_demo\test-001.py", line 30, in <module> c.BeginScene(None, 0) TypeError: "BeginScene" called with invalid arguments. Error: Expected and actual arguments are incompatible >>>

So far, when I wanted to add a new UI component to DelphiVCL, I always started from DelphiVCL source, added the new unit with classes and types, and created a “clone” of the package with the new functionality using that instead of DelphiVCL. It works but I would like to “not touch” the original version of DelphiVCL installed by PyPi but only create an extensive module (pyd) with only the new UI controls. At this point I don't know if this can be done. I still understand little about P4D but it seems to me that each new module requires a PyEngine which loads the python DLL and this is already instantiated by DelphiVCL and if I create a new package with my new module and controls I assume there will be conflicts. Is this a viable way ? Is there any way to reuse the egine already created by original DelphiVCL to use it in my custom PYD ? I thank in advance those who will help me to dispel these doubts. Best regards Silverio

Hi all, I'm trying to convert an old DelphiVCL (python) application to DelphiFMX and I was not able to define the form title icon image. In Project Options I've set Icon resource, as I made with DelphiVCL version: But during the python run the icon is not visible: I've searched for Icon property in TForm and TApplication but not available. There is a way ? Thank you in advance for any suggestion. Best regards.