Darian Miller

I've collected some info on 10.4 here: https://github.com/ideasawakened/DelphiKB/wiki/D27.Next.10.4.0.0 Specifically, managed records was pushed off for 10.4: http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/2018-november-deferring-managed records.html And it was confirmed recently as coming in 10.4: https://community.idera.com/developer-tools/b/blog/posts/get-ready-for-the-10-4-beta-with-update-subscription That's all I've seen specifically for language enhancements in 10.4.0 but they may surprise us. I'm looking forward ti VCL Styles + High DPI improvements in 10.4. The language server protocol will likely open up a new set of tooling for the IDE, which might be cool if it works. Beta should start 'very soon' - supposedly sometime in March.

For what it's worth, here's a few different responses: One answer is keeping up to date with changes to Microsoft Windows... for example HighDPI support. Does your software work well with Windows 10 high dpi systems? Delphi is getting much better with this particular issue. Hopefully 10.4 finally fixes some of the issues with VCL Styles and High DPI. Another answer is compliance related - some compliance certifications require your tooling be kept up to date with all available patches/updates. If you aren't under third party audits, this is less of an issue but for security in general keeping current is wise. (Do you have the buffer overflow fix for Delphi in place?) Another answer is business risk / insurance related - It may bite you later on any future insurance claims that you knew you were out of date but didn't upgrade to fix any potential problems. Are you going to milk this thing as it is until it dies, or are you ever going to add new features? If you are going to add features, staying current may make future features easier, especially keeping up with fast changing technologies like AWS/Azure. If you are using any third party components, eventually they will drop support for older versions of Delphi. You have to assume most of the new activity in third party components surround the new releases. With more and more new language features becoming available (like inline variables) that devs really like to use which aren't backwards compatible, the rate of third party components dropping support for old versions will probably increase over the next few years. This is obviously one of the prime goals of Embarcadero - and they will keep hammering at. It's in their best interest to introduce new non-backwards compatible language features and this approach will succeed over time. Finally, the longer you wait, the harder it becomes to ever bring it back up to date. It's just delaying the cost today for higher costs tomorrow. If they are in it for the long term, they should act like it. If you are a one or two-man shop then it's certainly much harder to justify the ongoing costs due to the ever increasing price (which I assume will keep getting worse), but if you are making a decent living with the Delphi products then it only makes sense to keep them current.

I put a few more items into this repo today: - Alternative implementation from https://www.helpandmanual.com/downloads_delphi.html - Newer Hunspell en_US dictionary from SCOWL (2019.10.06) - Newer Win32 version of libhunspell.dll , built today from 2019.11.12 source, along with two small PDF docs. I have a TFrame descendant that has the spell check functionality built-in, initially built for use with TMS components. TMS has an ISpell based spell checker component that hooks into their TAdvMemo component. It's pretty easy to replace their ISpell integration with a Hunspell integration using the CCR Hunspell unit. There are a lot of recently updated dictionaries available for use with Hunspell. ASpell as another option, with a lot of current dictionaries and there's also a spell checker API in WIndows 8+ as mentioned on StackOverflow, but I haven't investigated this much..

Chris Rolliston's MPL source from Code Central is now on GitHub. You can help make it as active as you like. : ) https://github.com/darianmiller/Delphi-Hunspell

I did get a response out of Glenn Crouch @ AddictiveSoftware. Apparently still pumping out manual updates for the latest Delphi release.

I was just looking at that. Along with Rolliston's code: https://cc.embarcadero.com/item/27428 https://delphihaven.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/compiling-a-hunspell-dll-step-by-step/

If you want to build web applications with Delphi, you'll probably want IIS.

Have you upgraded to 10.3.3? How's your crashes looking now?

Have you upgraded to 10.3.3? How's your crashes looking now?

Some system pause while clicking ended up with me somehow disabling the paths in project explorer under Delphi 10.3.3... do you know the magic to restore default behavior where you can collapse the file list by path? I think this happened before, but can't seem to find the solution and was hoping for a better memory than mine to help me out!

Thanks. I didn't have that button visible: The screen is huge so it seems to be spreading all the buttons out. I simply didn't drag the project explorer window wide enough to see the Options button. Right clicking the project explorer column title area presents a popup menu with a "Text Labels" options which toggles the text labels and makes that Options button visible again. Now I can Views->Directory (Nested) to get back to normal. However, the setting doesn't save - after a restart the setting goes back to Views->List so I had to Save Desktop over the default layout to get it back to normal. So it seems a couple things happened all at once: - The Project->Views-> Directory group option was changed - The default desktop settings were saved (as this change was persistent when it normally isn't) - The Project Manager column titles were toggled to text - I got confused! : ) This setting is not in the Default Layout.dst file, but in the registry: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\20.0\ProjectManager] List view: "Header0"=dword:00000107 Directory(Nested): "Header0"=dword:000001b5

Reported: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-27412 Funny thing is, they found/replaced the same spelling issue in FMX.Edit.Win.pas (reported August 2015 by John Kaster on https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-11800) But the same spelling error appears in FMX.Edit.Android.pasand FMX.Edit.iOS.pasand FMX.Edit.Style.pas

Ouch. But at least that one is protected. They can hopefully fix that one without much drama.

Delphi programmers are typically not very shy at saying how horrible something like that looks! Or opining about how bad the Quality Control is lately, or how the newer code is being created by low wage contractors instead of highly skilled craftsmen, etc... The has all the makings of those sorts of comments. And we've gone a year without it? I had to look at it 3 times from Sunday to make sure my cross eyes weren't playing a trick on me. I've done this sort of stupid thing multiple times and whenever I come across it, I typically immediately stop and fix all references. (Or if someone else did it, I tell them to immediately stop and fix it!) Call it a pet peeve I guess... I imagine if I use it, I'll put in a class helper to fix the spelling!

It's been out there for a little over a year and there hasn't been a long chain of comments yet? : ) (At least none that I found.) Maybe that just means very few are using THTTPClient...

Google Offers Financial Support to Open Source Projects for Cybersecurity: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/12/announcing-updates-to-our-patch-rewards.html I nominated The Indy Project since it's used by so many commercial Delphi-based projects. If others could do the same, it might help the cause. Or, suggest other libraries for support.

Can another forum be added in the Delphi Third Party section for DelphiHTMLComponents? It's a popular component set without a native support forum and it would be nice to see it here. Alexander Sviridenkov would be the main point of contact. (support@delphihtmlcomponents.com) https://delphihtmlcomponents.com/ I'm just a happy customer, no other relationship. The support email response rate is really good, but it would be nice to build up a forum of common questions over time. Thanks

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A few blog posts online, one today on a pretty good offering from Perforce that I stumbled upon: Helix TeamHub: 5-users with 1GB of space and your mix/match choice of Git, Mercurial, SVN repos for free. Also comes with tickets, wikis, build artifact management, integrations. The article comes with a slight rant on Git... https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/subversion-isn-t-dead-get-a-1gb-repo-free-forever I'm currently using Azure Devops which is pretty nice, but over the last few days the system was so slow that I started looking for alternatives and I found this one today.

Also happened to me. I completed the setup and didn't have a BDS.exe...seemed like everything else was there? I had to blow it all out and install to a new machine.

These is one of Helix Teamhub's targets - as you can grant access to third party users and limit access to specific repos/branches. I hadn't seen Versionshelf before. The multi-repo offering is definitely cool. But a new user to their site would see that they had one blog post in 2017 and nothing since. I'd assume the offering from a solid company like Perforce would be preferred, depending on number of users and budget. It does help to make this Helix Teamhub an interesting offering.

But it's not just a source repository. It has 70+ third-party integrations and offers tickets, milestones, kanban, wikis, code reviews. Other features like webdav file sharing, and multiple authentication enhancements like single sign-on, authorization by branch level. For those that want to host it themselves, there is a on-premise edition available. It's like a private GitHub repo with many features, including SVN support. It allows a mix and match of SVN, Git, and Mercurial repositories so if you are working with multiple teams with different types of repos you can support it with one system. If you only have 3 developers, and if your repo is under 1GB, then it might be something to look into so you get out of hosting it yourself and you get all the tools/integrations for free. I tried it out last night and the Wiki markdown support was OK, but the pages were all presented in a single list - there didn't seem to be the concept of child pages like on Azure Devops so I don't think I'll use it. Regardless, it's an interesting offering.

Ah yes, corrected