timfrost

Have you tried setting caHide in the Action parameter in your FormClose method?

Yes, I no longer remember when I applied the patches; for each compiler change I just update the compiler defines, build and test. Occasionally I may have had to tweak something.

I am using DDService successfully in Delphi 10.3; my patched files have a 2013 date and do all that is currently needed in our service applications. I look forward to checking them against your versions in due course. I have also used SVcom in the past but found DDService easier to implement.

Take a look at SetFileInformationByHandle in MSDN. I have used it for a different purpose (moving a locked open file) but it seems to provide some other tricks which may (or may not) help you.

I agree with your view of Windows 10 default colours, but it is simple to get rid of the default white title bar, so that at least you can find the active window: Settings / Colours / Accent Colour

It is not clear whether you actually need to keep them somewhere structured and ordered, like a stringlist. For a VTV, I would create a nodedata structure for each one containing either the string or a pointer to it, then just insert the node. If you do want an ordered list later, you can just walk the tree; if not, you are done when you have created the node structure and inserted it.

Yes. I have also been using a variant of this code for many years.

While I was typing a message which essentially said, "why not a TMemo", a notification of the first answer here popped up, so I did not bother. And it turns out your real question was as much about organising large numbers of additions as about the component to view them. I have an application which uses a VirtualTreeView for this purpose. This allows you to optimise the loading and updating of the list completely separately from the viewing of it. The VTV handles all the scrolling for you, and you simply insert nodes. Inserting takes much the same time if you insert at the top. bottom, or middle, and the items just appear on the screen, which only has to redisplay the currently visible nodes, wherever you do the insertion. It can be made extremely fast and efficiemt. especially if loading/updating the data is done in a background thread and notified to your inserter code.

My advice would be to avoid the smart panel controls that were added to the VCL a few versions ago. They claim to make it so easy but they rob you of control. I think TMS may also have some like that but I don't use them. I prefer to design what the application needs, and to work with plain panels and tabbed controls, grids, etc., with careful use of the align property. I normally use TMS. I don't know of any shortcuts to make all happen automagically, but I am ready to be told of one by someone else here!

I really don't want to start a 'style war'; it is just that I find it easier to see the structure if the 'if' and the 'else' are aligned and each begin/end block stands alone with its own indentations.

I hate this style, but I am pretty sure you can achieve it using the GExperts formatter, the one I have always used. [If not answering the question helps you]

I also have many components, all with source. I always disable the vendor's 'install into the IDE' option. For the few awkward ones who do not allow this, I have the IDE installed on a previous development machine, do the install there, and then copy over the source and project folders. And in most other cases I install the source into a 'components' area which is not my production build area - how do you manage to review every source change if the vendor simply overwrites their previous version, as so many do? After moving the component source into the production build folders (one for each component) I run a FinalBuilder project which builds each component with settings (defined in the FB project) over which I have control. The FB project also installs each component in the IDE by setting the IDE registry keys for it, and I have a program of my own which sets the library and browsing paths for the IDE exactly as I want them to be. All the BPLs and DCPs are each in a single folder. I do much the same as you describe for the DCU and resource files for each project, although for some of the smaller components I do not bother with a separate DCU folder. FinalBuilder is the big timesaver for all this - once set up, you can click once and know everthing will turn out correctly!

There was a 'b' version of the ISO a short while after it first became available. Perhaps this had only a few files changed, and these are now also in the alternate installer (which I have nerer used).

It sounds as if in your VT1mousedown event you should first call vt1.GetHitTestInfoAt to find out whether the mouse has been clicked on a node or not. Once you have the node, it is up to you to work out what you have put in it and whether it is a selected/focused node, and what to do with it if so. Presumably you always ensure that there is a node type or tag in the nodedata.

https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-25564