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My comment on Marco's blog got posted. But unfortunately he did not provide an answer. Even a "sorry, I cannot give any answer at the moment" would be preferable to the deafening silence of no response at all. That is also saddening. I skipped version 11.0 but I am using 11.1 now. Of course, one can program without the Parnassus plugins, but I do miss it. Greetings, Fons

Hello everyone, I posted a question on Delphi 11.1 Released Yesterday (marcocantu.com) on this very subject. Let's wait his reply. Greetings, Fons

Hi, I am trying to import using the clipboard some text which has to be processed. I am not a professional coder, it's just a hobby, but I do use some of my application at work (administration department). Below is data from a web application. In notepad is looks like this. In EditPad Pro is looks like this. Using the hex view it looks like this. The "white" space after the first Transaction seems to be 2 characters. The  is C2 and the space after is A0. According to a web search C2A0 is a non-breaking space. But you all probably know this I am trying to delete all spaces including this "special" unicode space. But I cannot get it to work. S := StringReplace(S, #$C2#$A0, '', [rfReplaceAll]); S := StringReplace(S, #$C2A0, '', [rfReplaceAll]); Delphi does not complain about any syntax errors, but the result is that this non-breaking space is not deleted - as in replaced by an empty string. I am at a loss. Delphi does include a function IsWhiteSpace that can detect this character, but I need something to delete it. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Fons

Remy, Thanks. Reading your reply, yes, it does make sense to me. I know there is UTF-8, 16 and 32, but didn't realize the "code point" (not sure about the name) would be different, just that the storage would be. But that it of course not the case, quite logically I suppose, but having not to deal with that issue thus far, it just didn't occur to me, yet. Greetings, Fons

Peter, Thanks for your help. Sorry for the elaborate introduction to my question. I wasn't sure of it all, thus the long introduction. And yes, the actually splitting is done similar to your example. Greetings, Fons

I have figured it out... after trying and searching for about an hour before posting my question... I suddenly have the answer. At first I tried the decimal value of C2A0 which is 49824. But that did not work either. Then I found this: When I use #160 it works Greetings, Fons

Hi, I got the same problem (in the Pro version of Delphi). Mike helped me out. As I don't know how to put a link to that answer, I just made a copy of his answer. So, thank him, not me. It the answer as Lajos gave, but with pictures. I also find that easier (but that may be my age ). Fons If you don't have it listed under Target Platforms: Try right-click on Target Platforms and Add Platform and choose 64bit:

Hi, I just installed Delphi Pro 11.1 using the web installer. I only installed it for Windows programming, so no Android, etc. In 10.4.2 I can select to compile for Windows in 32 or 64 bit mode. Now, in 11.1 I can only select 32 bit mode. As far as I can tell, there was not an option in the installer to select 32 bit, 64 bit or both. Can someone with the Pro version of Delphi 11.1 conform that she/he has also only the 32 bit compile option? Thanks. Fons

Thanks. Yes, now I can select 64 bit. I don't recall doing that in Delphi 10.4.x though. Or maybe I am getting old and I don't remember that anymore

Hi, Announcing the Availability of RAD Studio 11.1 Alexandria (embarcadero.com) Read this page, but not all of the links on this page work. Am I just overlooking it, but I cannot seem to read anything about the Parnassus add-ins (specifically Bookmark.)...? Fons

Hi, When starting the IDE (Delphi 10.4.2 Pro) I suddenly get this error message: Can't load package c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\studio\21.0\bin\dclRESTBackendComponents270.bpl. Can't load package c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\studio\21.0\bin\dclRESTComponents270.bpl. The specified module could not be found. Do you want to attempt to load this package the next time a project is loaded? Actually two messages because of two missing bpl files. I have been using 10.4.2 for quite some time now and I never got these messages. Both bpl files DO EXIST in the location they are suppose to be. So why can't the IDE find them now all of a sudden. The IDE always starts without loading a project, so it has nothing to do with my own little Delphi application. And the IDE does seem to find all other bpl files in the bin directory. I am at a loss. Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Fons

Thanks Uwe, Your remark made me look into it from that perspective... using Process Monitor I found out why... well, sort of. It had to do with the Livebinding bpl files. Strange thing though is, that I disabled them many weeks ago, so it still puzzles me why now it became a problem. Enabled and then disabled them and after that the REST packages loaded without any problem. Best regards, Fons

Hi Uwe, I guess there no way to find out which those packages are..? Still, since I haven't changed anything to the IDE at all, it seems odd that I suddenly have this issue. Since I don't use REST in any of my applications I will just have to ignore these messages and answer "No" next time it pops up. It does annoys me though... if I cannot find out why this happens. Best regards, Fons

Hello, I just did a clean install of Delphi Pro 10.4.2. All went smoothly. Than I installed Peganza Expert. When starting Delphi immediately there is an access violation. After uninstalling Peganza Expert all is fine again. Have any of you have similar problems? I had no problems with Delphi 10.4.1. I contacted Peganza but I thought I ask here also. For those of you that are way smarter than me, below is the report of the access violation. I have no clue. Thanks. 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Many thanks !! That works perfectly.

Thanks. I will pass this info to Peganza. At least now I know it is not something wrong on my end.

If you have an active subscription... then why wait for 10.5 ? Especially when most seem to like 10.4.1 and 10.4.2. Why cut yourself short waiting...? Just curious. You answered it a minute ago

It is an add-on and is does not come with source. The support page is outdated. It works fine in 10.4.1 just not 10.4.2.

Hello, In Delphi Pro 10.4.1 the settings about Hints are the same for debug and release. But, when building my application in debug mode I only get 1 hint. When building in release mode I get more hints. Does anyone has a clue why I don't get the same number of hints? Could it be of the optimization setting? In debug mode this is set to False. In release mode it is set to True. One of the hints I get in release mode is H2077: Value assigned to <variable name> never used. In debug mode this particular hint for that variable does not exist, but the hint does show up in release mode. Clearly, if it wasn't used than wouldn't the hint show up in debug mode also..? I can guarantee that the variable is used. Any explanation will be appreciated. Best regards, Fons

Hi emailx45, thank you !!! Deleting the .DPROJ file did the trick. Yes !! As for comparing it with the old DPROJ file... which is 59K and the new one is only 8K the differences were too many, Did take a quick look and there were all kinds of references to Android and such, which I don't even have installed (neither as Delphi target platform or as an OS). But it does not matter, my problem is solved. Thanks again. Much appreciated.

Thank. I know. But the different number of hint remain also after a complete rebuild. I am still at a loss why this is. It bugs the hell out of me...

I am not sure how to read this... is it suppose to be sarcastic? I cannot just copy paste the relevant pages of the book - that would be illegal. And for just 5 euros the PDF version is a steal and again really worthwhile,

To provide some more information without a complete code dump. The hint is about a local variable in a standalone procedure. The variable occurs 4 times. At 2 times it is set to zero. In 1 time it is used in an equation. The weird part is that the hint (in release mode) is on this line of code: Inc(RecordTeller); This is an essential line of code. And this line is run multiple times. No hint in debug mode, which is what is to be expected. I have no clue whatsoever as to why in release mode this triggers the hint H2077: Value assigned to RecordTeller never used.

There is a short explanation to the FastMM internals in Mastering Delphi Programming: A Complete Reference Guide (https://www.packtpub.com/product/mastering-delphi-programming-a-complete-reference-guide/9781838989118). Along many other good stuff. The PDF version is very cheap. Really worthwhile,

Hi emailx45, Thanks for helping, but unfortunately it did not change anything. In debug mode I still only get 1 hint while in release mode I get 12 hints. The CLEAN option did not remove much by the way, so I just deleted all DCU files, but with no effect to the different number of hints. I must be some setting which is different in either mode that causes this. Will try to find out what. Again, thanks for the help. PS. All output is to my RAMDISK so after every boot of Windows (at least once a day) I will always start clean automatically.