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    Delphi WAT of the day

    restart, mom if I add procedure test(a: Int64; b: Int32); overload; begin Writeln('Int64/Int32'); end; everything is ok again. Why should the compiler decide for Int64 if it fits into Int32? We know that the type cast in the const declaration is just some placeholder.
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    How to "dim" a TabSheet?

    @aehimself I see. I'd add a client aligned panel on the top of it, drawing a dimmed/blurred image from the things below and adding some controls to this panel to interact with. You just have to make sure that the underlying controls can't be triggered/selected with pressing tab. Perhaps you need an intermediate container tab on each sheet to be able to disable the whole sheet but not the dimmed/blurred one.
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    How to "dim" a TabSheet?

    Could you define the symmetric difference of the sets "Everything" and "important stuff" ? We have no idea what else could be on the page which would make sense to dim but not the "important stuff". Are you putting unimportant stuff onto the forms? 🙂 Enemy deception? 🙂
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    Range Check Error ERangeError

    I've found some cardinal() casts in some legacy code for pointers 😉 @luebbe are those casts in ICS Demo also for pointers or for integer numbers?
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    Range Check Error ERangeError

    Reload my comment. 😛
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    Range Check Error ERangeError

    @Stefan Glienke I can't reproduce the yellow one in Berlin. Strange. Edit: ahhhh, it was XE. Okay. Sorry.
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    Range Check Error ERangeError

    This is the very same analogy as 10 billion flies can't be wrong. You should really go like @Remy Lebeau suggested. Optionally you could read up signed and unsigned data.
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    Range Check Error ERangeError

    then why are you asking?
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    QueryPerformanceCounter precision

    I thought all the time he is comparing Δt's. What is the point to measure it in seconds?
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    QueryPerformanceCounter precision

    https://www.esaitech.com/symmetricom-pcie-1000-ocxo-syncpoint-ptp-ieee-1588-computer-precision-timing-card.html
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    Target machine actively refused connection

    netstat -anob >netstat.txt look for ibserver.exe on which interfaces and ports is listening
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    Delphi 10.4 Portable

    this is indeed annoying that you can't insert text before a quote if you did not add some text prior quoting/inserting code block is there a trick for that? Edit: aha, drag and drop the block with the arrows on the topleft. phew....
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    Delphi 10.4 Portable

    where exactly is the control right mouse button on a cell phone?
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    Target machine actively refused connection

    did you try with <yourip> instead of localhost? maybe it's not binding on lo by default?
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    I need some clarifications here too, as I'm not using timers anywhere, maybe my 3rd parties does, I don't know, but what is "wrong time" for a timer? I can't remember having seen a property like OnWrongTime or OnRightTime. Is it possible that you are referring here to "wrong code" instead?
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    10.4.2: Refactor popup menu takes up to 5 min to display

    that many "C:\" 's are also suspicious but I have no idea why is it stickig at it something in the path? a recursive dir link?
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    10.4.2: Refactor popup menu takes up to 5 min to display

    Do you have circular unit references?
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    You can't just pick a piece of code and put it in the background thread. You can do it with some code, but not every time. No, you can't do that. You can do it in some cases, but not every time. You know exactly what I meant with that. I'm not against threading but we should keep the things there where they are.
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    Oo yes, and if you giving status reports, you are the ProgressBar 😛
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    "Most obvious problem is that such code becomes re-entrant." Which code? The one starts the blocking loop or the one starts the thread? They have to backed up both. Don't they? "may respond to user input slowly" Yes. Just like a thread "reacts" slowly, when you want to cancel it and it just won't stop right away because it's too busy to check if there was a stop signal. "but all the calls to Application.ProcessMessages will make that long operation running even longer" You are right. 2 cores are more than 1. But no, because we have to move a lot of data between the threads. Many times. And this is not something to ignore. Putting a piece of blocking code into a thread just because the GUI, could be rocket science. "Imagine connecting to some web .. Application.ProcessMessages will not help you with that." Yeah, I can only agree with that, and I'm doing the same and yet I did not think of that. I can't tell anything to the android part.
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    well, you have to learn foreign languages then, or look for a native forum, you see me? friend 🙂
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    application repeat db-task while not dataset.eof do begin // main loop blocked dataset.next; end; form2.showmodal -> modal form repeat Application.ProcessMessages; <- modal form workaround, bites as hell until ModalResult <> 0 Application.ProcessMessages; until terminate
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    @Dalija Prasnikar Could you explain the difference between "putting a db task into a thread" (thread) vs. "application.processmessages" regarding to the GUI?
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    Determining why Delphi App Hangs

    @Anders Melander Ahum, there was a line missing, the forum is glitching today;)
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    Introducing Delphi Uses Helper

    I'm using this since you (pre-)released it back in the G+ era and I'm very grateful to you for creating it.
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