Tommi Prami

Removed the experts from my Tokyo installation, works not, not optimal tough...

Yep, I also had XTokyo one, but will it just load wrong one...

Seems that there is only one ParnassusCoreEditor.dll in my system drive, and it is of version 1,6.0, and most likely not compatible with older plugins. -Tee-

I can confirm this... Damnation. 10.2 installation is pretty useless... 😞 Wouldn't matter too much, but that will be main IDE for a couple of weeks or so 😞 -Tee-

I would like to see this plugin to get more support, now that code is already there, and installer, maybe, to speed up the start... Edit, how anyone can understand what I menat, coz I can't 😄 Would be nice to have installer for different IDE-versions, so it would be easier to start using it. I would suggest, if possible, add some standard colorizxation of properties, but it should be configurable, but editing INI-file would be OK, to me anyways. Because there are so many components and different properties, and some are interested in very different properties... -Tee-

Seems pretty cool. Would like to have some way to set this up, maybe an .ini-file etc, to give some custom properties. Did not check the code, so don't know that was it your plugin, but colorization of properties would alonne help a ton. Sometimes you spend very long time for property like Name etc. -Tee-

This seems to be simple problem, but nothing but trivial. I think is very hard to get 100% right. Depending on use cases. Is it about user input or random set of Xml-files to read etc. This is one of those things that if there would have been solved by any standard from dawn of times. Too much variations. Dates and/or times are even worse, at least the Date part. If someone has tons of time and good test sets, would be good to have "Fuzzy string conversion library" which would at least try to make conversions like this. -Tee-

Sounds like a interesting project. Would be way better to use library for that kind of things than to make one of your one. most likely. -Tee-

Thanks for info. Benchmarking and measuring is not easy indeed.

Has anyone done benchmarking against regular Delphi lists (Generic or not). Would be interesting to see how much this helps. I was just pondering that I can't even make guess what the difference will be.

I would need to get position of MenuItem, of top level TMenuItem, so always visible. I would like to show balloonhint on top of that, to tell user that, you should go in this menu, to process stuff, pretty much now, if suints your timetable 😉 -Tee-

Could this be messed up with visual form inheritance. It works in clean demo app, basically your code, with those name changes I've made. Have to typecast the constant because otherwise I'll get an Constant violates subrange bounds error, but not even that matter/happen in a clean new App. -Tee-

type {$A8} // default quadword-alignment PSTMenuBarInfo = ^TSTMenuBarInfo; tagSTMENUBARINFO = record cbSize: DWORD; rcBar: TRect; hMenu: HMENU; hwndMenu: HWND; { fBarFocused:1: BOOL;} { bar, popup has the focus } { fFocused:1: BOOL; } { item has the focus } FocusedBits: BYTE; end; TSTMenuBarInfo = tagSTMENUBARINFO; function STGetMenuBarInfo(hend: HWND; idObject, idItem: Longint; var pmbi: TSTMenuBarInfo): BOOL; stdcall; external user32 name 'GetMenuBarInfo'; function GetWindowMenuItemRect(const AHandle: THandle; const AIndex: Integer): TRect; var LMenuBarInfo: TSTMenuBarInfo; begin FillChar(LMenuBarInfo, SizeOf(TSTMenuBarInfo), 0); LMenuBarInfo.cbSize := SizeOf(TSTMenuBarInfo); {$RANGECHECKS OFF} {$OVERFLOWCHECKS OFF} {$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF} Win32Check(STGetMenuBarInfo(AHandle, Longint($FFFFFFFD), AIndex, LMenuBarInfo)); {$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM ON} {$OVERFLOWCHECKS ON} {$RANGECHECKS ON} Result := LMenuBarInfo.rcBar; end; Changed types and method name to make sure it uses different types, added some far fetched compiler defines. Same code works using rest of your code. But failed on app that woulöd actually need to use it :). Have an idea tough... Gives me System Error. Code: 1400. Invalid window handle LEt me see... btw... Thanks for help!

Thanks, Can't see any difference but if I copy record and external method declarations from github, it compiles. weirdest thing ever 😄

Thanks, I see nothing wrong in that, but I just can't see why Compiler does not like it. It might be something trivial, but I just can't figure it out. TMenuBarInfo = tagMENUBARINFO; // <- [dcc32 Error] : E2029 '=' expected but identifier 'TMenuBarInfo' found

Tried all combinations of different handles and indexes, I could think of... Damnation. Now have to go tortured by the Dentist, and not event the Delphi-coding one 😞

Thanks man, I'll check... Gort to make couple of changes to make it compile, weirdly it did not allow me to assign Returned rect to result. Type in Delphi seems to be TMenuBarInfom and last parameter of GetMenuBarInfo is defined as Var-parameter. So I think I'll have to pass the whole record, not just pointer. function GetWindowMenuItemRect(const AHandle: THandle; const AIndex: Integer): TRect; var LMenuBarInfo: TMenuBarInfo; begin FillChar(LMenuBarInfo, SizeOf(LMenuBarInfo), 0); LMenuBarInfo.cbSize := SizeOf(LMenuBarInfo); {$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM OFF} Win32Check(GetMenuBarInfo(AHandle, Integer($FFFFFFFD), AIndex, LMenuBarInfo)); {$WARN SYMBOL_PLATFORM ON} Result.Top := LMenuBarInfo.rcBar.Top; Result.Left := LMenuBarInfo.rcBar.Left; Result.Height := LMenuBarInfo.rcBar.Height; Result.Width := LMenuBarInfo.rcBar.Width; end; It just gives me System Error. Code: 1400. Invalid window handle Tried to pass Windows Handle, MenuITems handle, did not Accept it... 😞 Weird. -Tee-

Should have been little more clear. I would need to open vector maps, bitmap maps. And other geolocation data. do some drawing on the map etc. Preferably some code to make some analysis if needed. -tee-

I think this comes (also) down to how expensive is getting Default Value. If just Constant or some simple value, then it is not an problem, But if it's anything more complicated, then it could be pretty slow if there is significant instances of other than default.

Don't need to be ready to run thingy, just something to make things little bit easier. So don't have to code all from Scratch. Would be good exercise, but not enough free time to tinker on it. Or some article on how to actually code one would also help. -Tee-

I Remember stumbling upon one long time ago but my Google-Fu was weak today. If not mistaken the lib I try to remember was integrated to Delphi iDE... MAybe... All info appreciated... -Tee-

I believe Embarcadero acquired rights to Ide FIX pack and changes are added to IDE it self, embarcadero only knows which ones and how tough... Andy is now trying to make DDevExtensions for Rio, but had some problems with debugging Ide bpls, I think I saw tweet yesterday. -Tee-

Does that work with UNC paths? (Just asking)

Report to Embarcadero Issuer tracker, and put link into here. So we can Vote on it.

Wiki Article of the Change https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_in_Microsoft_Windows#cite_note-10 One of out customer had selected that and we started to experience very weird problems and took some time to find out why it misbehaves. None of the application could connect to Firebird SQL server (Ours or third party) successfully. So would be smart to go through all tooling and code with that setting, we never know what M$oft will do with that, will it ever be released or will it soon be default for all. One coder switched this on and started to get weird results, he could not specify what all symptoms, but said that lot of work to be done before that setting can be enabled. Could be smart to Check how your environment, tools and code will behave.