Joe Sansalone

The Parallels "Best for external displays" does work. I showed someone, and they saw the same clearness with Light mode and Dark mode. It's my eyes on the Dark mode - I saw some "double" that made it look blurry .. but it's totally crisp as the Light mode. When I increase font size even a little (code editor) it looks super sharp. When it was set to "Retina Display" but had external monitor, there was a real blurriness because the resolution and scale (windows) were not using the native setting of the monitor.

Both full screen mode and "unity" produce the same effect. The Parallels setting "Best for external displays", did produce better results ... but dark mode doesn't seem as crisp. I will take a screenshot later today (currently working day job, monitor is connected to work windows laptop)

Hi Patrick, I installed the driver in windows. For some reason Parallels uses its own driver and it sets color to 8-bit. I changed the setting in Parallels to use "External display" graphics and it helps. Also, I noticed that in Light mode (Delphi IDE), the fonts are crisp and sharp. But, in dark mode, it's a little more blurry. My external monitor is not 4K .. it's 2560 x 1440. Seems like the color at 8-bits is not enough to make Dark mode look crisp. (I made sure to allocate 16GB to Parallels VM, hoping it would change display to at least 16-bit color). Thanks for the suggestions.

Hi, I'm using Delphi 12 on a MacBook via Parallels (running Windows 11 ARM). It looks good on the 14 inch Retina MacBook display. But, when I connect to a 27 inch Dell monitor, the fonts look blurry. Anyone in this situation, what can be done? AND how to save settings so that I can swap between External monitor and macbook? thanks, Joe

Thanks Dave! Works for me.

Hi, I'm running Delphi 12.1 connected to macOS 14.5 with Xcode 15.4. SDK iOS 17.5 I tried a simple app - compiling with Simulator ... launches simulator, app starts but never gets to form screen. I don't need a certificate for Simulator, right? Anybody get Simulator to work? Same simple app ... couldn't get it to run on my iPhone (17.5). (although I think I need to download a developer certificate and provisioning profile .. I thought it would keep from previous Xcode). Joe

Anything in real production I purchase a license. But I'd like to play around with new Change Views - got me thinking I should setup something with latest IB version.

Like a regular batch file? Does your client application automatically re-connect? Or do you also restart your client app too?

Does it mean that existing connections continue to work after 48 hours?

Hi, I know that Interbase works on the same machine with my Delphi IDE, for development purposes. Do I need a separate dev license to try Interbase on a machine without the Delphi IDE? If so, do I already have it because I purchased Delphi OR do I need to request it? Joe

Thanks. I have 11.3 and soon to start using 12.1. (any reason why these changes are NOT yet implemented in recent versions?) I'll check out the code changes by Chris Pim - thanks!

Hi, Has anyone used in-app for subscriptions? A client needs me to have the app free for a couple of weeks and then prompt to purchase subscription (in-app). Is this doable with TInAppPurchase? if so, any examples out there? Joe

gds_db (port 3050) developer_ib2020 (port 3054) I stopped the services so that none are running. I think IbMgr.exe probably is calling the wrong ib_guard.exe or something. I'll probably remove Update 4 files so that there's only Update 5 Interbase.

using as a server

Hi, I have Delphi 11.3 and Delphi 12.1 on the same machine. Interbase2020 Update 4 was there before 12.1. Now there is Update 5 as well. But even though I change the shortcut to point to IBMgr.exe gds_db in the Delphi 12.1 directory, the server running shows the old Update 4. I made changes to the registry ... I don't know why update 4 is running?? If I check the location of the running IBServer.exe in task manager it always shows 22.0 folder (Delphi 11.3).