Attila Kovacs

@Der schöne Günther Indeed. And also funny. But does not apply then styles are overriding every design time decorations except I'm implementing one custom hook for every different control types.

Don't do that.

Too bad you can't register a converter for simple types.

Kinda. Convert it first with ObjectToJsonObject then remove the time 0 pairs then generate the string. Or create a json wrapper for TDateClass where HasDate and NoDate are strings. In this case you have to take care of the Date-Format. btw. "1899-12-30T00:00:00.000Z" is a valid date. 🙂

I can't recompile it on w7 but the exes are working just fine in a w7 VM for me.

I'm pretty sure. Win10

Hi, how can I declare a TArray<IFoo> where the elements are weak referenced?

@Stefan Glienke thanks.

It works fine on Berlin U2. Edit: 10.3 CE too.

The simplest way, without having to reimplement a couple of things from the original CMShowingChanged is leaving the form on wsMinimized and then calling a SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE: private procedure CMShowingChanged(var Message: TMessage); message CM_SHOWINGCHANGED; procedure TForm3.CMShowingChanged(var Message: TMessage); begin inherited; ShowWindow(Handle, SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE); end; This will also result a "restore" animation, if enabled.

I'd try to override the "show" process and call showwindow with SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE. Maybe there is already something in VCL.

@limelect ok, sorry but I'm not operating with explorer at all. I'm using Far Manager. btw. you could lookup libraries/pictures from the mentioned list and fire the same location in a new explorer window without knowing its real location.

@limelect In this case you could cache as a lookup table the entries from: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FolderDescriptions and fire the explorer for example with: start shell:PicturesLibrary or explorer shell:PicturesLibrary where PicturesLibrary is the example, one element from the FolderDescriptions Then you will land there where you was and not in its translated dir.

does this help you to understand how "libraries" work? cd %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Libraries

@Stefan Glienke off> btw, regarding to DelphiAST updates, are you planning to update your uses helper? </off

Why would you bother some unused variables if you can live with those warnings? btw. copy paste into a text file and grep

I have a form, designed size let's say 640x680. Everything dynamic, every control is inside a TGridPanel, aligned. Designed formstate wsMaximized, one button can minimize the app with Application.Minimize or ShowWindow(Handle, SW_MINIMIZE). Everything fine. For the fist sight. But: On startup, the form will be rendered in 640x680 then resized to fullscreen and re-rendered. On minimize, form will silently resized to 640x680, rendered while it's became invisible, and on restore resized again to fullscreen and re-rendered again. How should I skip the unnecessary resizings/renderings/align calculations?

Hm, looks like the solution is easier than I thought. Instead of setting the formstate to wsMaximized, if I'm setting the form's width and height to the Screen's width and height in the OnCreate event, the problems are gone.

TListView.Items.BeginUpdate / EndUpdate?

Thomas, I do it already, there are at least 2 components which does about the same, except the auto DPI resizing, I have to do it manually and animation which I don't really care. But I'm always open for new things, I'm waiting for the answers.

Otherwise, really impressive. I like how the Imagelist captures the DPI change, the compressed storage, preview in imagelist-editor, plus the save button. The zooming tiger is so fast that I can't even believe that it's being rendered for every frame, is it some bitmap transformation? One thing I'm missing, linking the imagelists into a chain. Ergo, defining the svg's once, in a "main" imagelist and having multiple imagelists pointing to the "main" with different sizes. Great work

Lib does not work on a system with decimal separator different than point "."

And once you are done patching these into your search routines, one day you will face a component with its own TWriter and TReader which breaks all these regular rules and won't work, or in worst case, it will even screw up your concat logic and crash badly.

Theme XYZ... There is this IDE theme with the dark/blue etc. themes. Then there is this modernthemeXXX.bpl. And there are windows themes since 7 (I think). Am I right? Now,I killed the first two, then I came across this: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Rio/en/Disabling_Themes_in_the_IDE_and_in_Your_Application However, I can't see any difference if I remove the lines from this merge manifest. I'm also not sure how should this work. Why would windows look for this file? Btw. it's on W10, the article says 7/8. Does it apply for W10 too? Btw btw, it's still "CodeGear RAD Studio" in the manifest. Why? Would one need a new signature if it changes? Money? Edit: Ok, looks like from W10 things are changed, there is no more "classic" (stone age) theme anymore. I could also fix the dark "Standard" toolbar by resetting it to its defaults. It was just a bit strange that the latest IDE without any theming also differs a _LOT_ from Berlin.

You can still drop themeloader, themeXY, and of course moderntheme bpl too. Yes, it was also themed long before the "themes" (modernthemeXXX.bpl). But then you will face, how poor the new forms (like options) and some other parts are implemented. Un-/Wrong Aligned controls etc... And the "Standard" toolbar has a dark background, if I nuke modernthemeXXX.bpl and looking at the bare, winapi rendered IDE. And these things never will be fixed. But hey, on the other side, JAVA apps do not fall so slowly anymore.