pgraham9999

Thanks Pat,  

I tried your suggestion from an email rather than the forum you had edited.  Just to confirm, it didn't work.  I was able to add the package, when I re-opened, I got an unable to register a duplicate Key binding(??), but still no Welcome Page.

The help file with Seattle says the welcome page should be under VIEW, but it is not on mine.  I am guessing that when I replied to the question did I want to not load the welcome page, and I replied no, that it set some flag somewhere that suppresses any mention of the welcome.

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

Sorry for the long delay...

After much searching, and trial and error, I happened on a post suggesting renaming Startpageide260.bpl.  When re-starting the ide, I was told that file was missing, did I want to skip.  Clicked YES.  Delphi no longer loads the start page.  No Security message.  But also no recent program list! (except from the FILES menu  I renamed the file back, but still no welcome page.  I find nothing on options or in the registry that will turn it back on. (should have left it alone!) 

Any thoughts?

As of today, when I start Delphi, and it settles down, I get the message "Do you want to view only the webpage content that was delivered securely,.  The webpage contains content that will not be delivered using a secure HTTPS connection."  This has never happened before.  Windows 10 doesn't show any updates in the last 2 weeks and I haven't updated Seattle.  The screen gives me 3 choices: Yes and No do nothing (no web page displayed), More Info loads Edge and takes me to a Microsoft support page to buy Office 365. 

When I load a program, and anytime I open or close a module, I get this message.  I guess that Seattle is trying to tell me something with a web page, but it never has done this before, and I do not see the page.

Any thoughts?

Phil

SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF  did it!

Thanks.  My mind is just too old for the little things!

That was too easy!  The following

 {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown := DebugHook <> 0;
 {$ENDIF}
 

gets warning "Symbol 'DebugHook' is specific to platform"  Didn't I just say that!
 

Thanks All!

I have a unit in a large project that does a zip backup of the data files at close.  The main zip procedure declares a variable 

Dir:TDirectory;

which is used to retrieve file names for the backup:

sl:=StrArray(Dir.GetFiles(SourceDir));

I then pass sl to the zip file.  It works correctly.  However, compile gives a warning "variable 'Dir' is declared but never used".  If I remove the variable, compile fails.  I don't like to leave warnings!  How can I remove this one?

Solved (sort of, I think!).  The TDBEdit was 2nd on the tab order, and burrier in the VCL  code it was being given the focus.  Moved it in the tab order.  It now doesn't have focus and onenter (yes - another mistake in my original description) seems to work find.  

Sometimes just explaining the problem to others helps you think about a problem.  (It's been a long time since the TP newsgroups!)

Thanks All

Phil

1 hour ago, David Heffernan said:

Why aren't you debugging? 

Not sure how to attack this! (I have used interactive debugging since Cobol in mid '80s, working mostly Pascal since Turbo Pascal 1.0)  I think I may try to replicate the problem with a small test program without all the baggage of big app.

4 hours ago, FPiette said:

Does the executable stopped working on your own computer or on many Win10 computers?

Have not tried on  other Win 10 comps.  App requires extensive database in specific folders (not good, I know).  Very difficult to set up on new machine

4 hours ago, FPiette said:

You said a form doesn't show, it is the only flaw?

That I am aware of, yes.

4 hours ago, FPiette said:

Are the form's position and size saved somewhere for the next run? 

 

No positions saved.

Does recompiling the application change anything?

Doesn't seem to.

4 hours ago, FPiette said:

 

It's not a code change.  

the same executable, on a zip drive, behaves normally on a win 7 system, but is not "correct" on win 10 system with no win updates.

I have a db application, running for almost 20 years, regularly added-to as the need arises.  Several years ago I added a helper form to an address field, forcing some consistency in the data entry.  OnClick of the TDBEdit opens a new form with separate fields for parts of the address.  ln the last several days this helper form does not trigger.  But only on the development machine, Win 10-64 home, up to date (but no updates show for the last several weeks).  If I transport the compiled program to the production system, Win-7, everything works normally, as before.

I don't know where to begin looking.  I have started to cobble something to make it work, but that's not the right answer.

Any thoughts?

Phil