uligerhardt

That's how TFont is streamed, at least in VCL: Either you leave ParentFont at True or the complete TFont properties are stored. I hate that too.

I'd check the *.dproj for spurious entries.

Regarding dynamic construction: I only know FastReport and List&Label. Both have DOM-like APIs. And FastReport has scripting.

Um - the name Motif is already taken: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software).

I wasn't clear enough... Why would you rely on this even if it worked?

Why would you rely on this? Without the tiniest comment?

Thanks! I missed that feature on every Delphi upgrade. Re: clipboard format: Can't you just hand over the text? You can probably even put into a TMemIniFile for reading.

Couldn't you use a normal Delphi enum (i.e. without assignments) for the "main" values and define the extraneous ones as untyped constants?

No, that's why I'm talking about class methods. You can use them like this: type TMyEventHandler = class public class procedure OnError(const AMessage: string); end; Something.OnError := TMyEventHandler.OnError; The method has to be non-static to provide the needed Self parameter.

FWIW: If I have to adapt the interface of the routine anyway I would make it into a (non-static) class method of a dummy class and stay completely inside of the type system.

What does AddFontResource return?

What does "doesn't work" mean for you? Computer exploding? Hard drive formatted? I just created a FMX app with this: procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); begin AddFontResource('C:\Users\uli\Documents\Embarcadero\Studio\Projekte\IcoMoon\IcoMoon-Free-master\Font\IcoMoon-Free.ttf'); SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_FONTCHANGE, 0, 0); Text1.Font.Family:= 'IcoMoon-Free'; Text1.Text:= #$e900; Text1.TextSettings.FontColor:= TAlphaColorRec.Red; Text1.TextSettings.Font.Size:= 32; Text1.TextSettings.HorzAlign:= TTextAlign.Trailing; end; And I get a red house. I'm not sure if it matters that font file name and family are the same in my sample.

I guess something like ex_load.Intro.Text.Text := #$e900; should work.

You didn't specify a calling convention. This is probably cdecl like in MXIO_GetDllVersion. Another poular choice is stdcall.

I use a "len" variable too. So I'd say you show exactly the right level of pedantry.