PeterPanettone

The most significant handicap in Delphi, in my opinion, is the editor, which is still stuck in the Stone Age.

Yes, please tell me how to do this. Thank you!

I need it for a VCL project where I use a TSkSVG component, which I need to PrintPreview and Print.

Since Delphi 12 Skia is part of the RTL. I have a VCL project where TSkSvg.SVG.WrapMode = Fit. Unfortunately, there seems to be no TSkSvg.SVG.Zoom property. What I need is: 1. Center the SVG AND 2. Zoom the SVG to a specific value OR Fit Is this logical combination possible?

Thank you very much! But would a rainmaker dance also work? It's less time-consuming.

After installing a GetIt Package from GetIt, show a Link to the install location in the GetIt list item: This would make handling the installed package and its components, such as demo projects, much more manageable. Please vote for this QUALITY REPORT: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-43427

The new Artwork Generator does work well with simple ASCII characters: Now try to paste a Unicode character, e.g., from https://symbl.cc/en/2622/ This is the result: You can see that the character is inserted in the wrong vertical position! So, Embarcadero should add a control to adjust the vertical position OFFSET! This would open the Artwork Generator to the vast Unicode symbols world and immensely increase its practical value!

Is Embarcadero unable to display a 150x150 pixel raster logo and a 44x44 pixel raster logo in their actual dimensions?

However, even working with ASCII text, the 44x44 Logo looks very ugly:

@vfbb: You are right. When using an SVG image, the image is centered correctly:

Strangely enough, if you add an ASCII character, the symbol is correctly vertically centered:

One thing that has been annoying me for a long time: If you double-click a .DPR file in the File Explorer, it is loaded in the IDE, but the IDE is not brought to the foreground! Can anyone confirm this - and is there a way to fix this problem?

This is also a shortcoming that has been annoying for many years: The Install Packages window still has no Filter box in Delphi 12:

In Design Mode (and only in Design Mode, not in Code Editing mode), PASTE into the IDE's F6 Search box with CTRL+V still does not work! The Delphi IDE has been dragging this handicap along for generations. When will Embarcadero do something about it?

WOW!!! That was more than SEVEN YEARS ago! (On a computer scale, that's more than seven centuries) And there are even smart comments about this topic too: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-15403

Do you believe that reports about simple fundamental issues lead to change?

How could a Filter box improve your handling of the Packages in the Install Packages window? Or, to put it negatively: How does the lack of a Filter box complicate your handling of the Packages in the Install Packages window (if there are many Packages in the list)? Everyone professionally dealing with UIs would agree that large lists without the possibility of sorting, searching, or filtering would be considered a nogo. In the Computer Stone Age (CSA), everything was small: screens, icons, text, lists, etc. (The only things that were big were the computer cases and the stacks of punched cards). But hey, we live in the 21st century!

When you DOUBLE-CLICK a .DPR file it means you really want to load that project in the IDE and work with that project. So, it would be sensible to bring the IDE window to the foreground. Tell me a case where this would not be the case.

No - it seems that someone at Embarcadero is not following the rules. Does it flash when you repeat the described scenario? This is a good example of where stubborn adherence to the rules leads to disadvantages in a smooth workflow. It would be possible to define an exception option in the options.

First, I need to confirm that others have this issue too. Only then, when I'm sure a misconfiguration or IDE settings do not cause the problem, I will file a quality Report. So, Is this happening to you, too?

It happens when the IDE is already open but in the background (i.e., not in the foreground, not minimized).

Interesting. They should make the Welcome Page detachable, too (like Tool Panels).

Is it possible to open the Delphi 12 Welcome Page in a separate Window separated from the main IDE window or inside a Browser, as other IDE windows, like the Options, are also shown in a window separate from the main IDE window? This would allow us to make the Welcome Page FullScreen.

Delphi 12 (and previous versions) has a beneficial feature: It is possible to place Tool Panels on a secondary monitor, which is GREAT for productivity. But sometimes, these Tool Panels on the secondary monitor are hidden behind other windows. So, there should be an option to have those Tool Panels show a Taskbar icon when they are located on a secondary monitor. This would allow the user to click a Toolbar icon on the secondary monitor's Taskbar to bring the respective Tool Panel to the foreground. This code shows the icon of a secondary form on the Taskbar: protected procedure CreateParams(var Params : TCreateParams); override; // must be in 'protected' section! implementation procedure TBDSForm.CreateParams(var Params : TCreateParams); // implementation of CreateParams begin inherited CreateParams(Params); // Don't ever forget to do this!!! // This window is displayed as a separate icon in the taskbar: Params.WndParent := Winapi.Windows.GetDesktopWindow; // set this form independent from Main Form end; Would it be possible to implement this as an IDE plugin?

Is the source code of the Delphi 12 BPL available? I would like to provide my own custom content.