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Bummer! Usually WebInstall works fine. This time while removeing the Getit packages, had an error, then it registered some dlls and died... 😞 Repeated attempts all fail the same way. It doesn't appear to download anything to install. Tried to reinstal D11.2 - Same issue - I have a problem.. 😞 Update 1 - Installing into my VMWare VM OK. Update 2 - Ended up totally de/re-installing D11. 😞 Reinstalling all the 3rd Party stuff now. 😞 Oh the pain!! Update 3 - All done. Indirect bonus, I now have a clean install again.. 😉

Hi Team, Win 11, D11.2. As best I can tell I have set all the relevant settings for the Formatter and Tabs to 2. Yet, I still get formatting like the following.. Each indent is 8 characters. I want only 2. As I said, I have tried the usual places in the Formatter and User Interface but I still can't get it to work as desired... 😞 Is there some obscure place/setting I don't know about?? Regards & TIA, Ian

I believe I have cracked it.. In the registry Block indent & Tab stops were set to 8, but the equivalent Pascal settings were 2. I changed the Default to 2 and all is good now. I don't know if this is a bug in 11.2 and is resolved in 11.3. We shall see. Regards, Ian

Oh Dear. I thought we had it. 😞 Delete the Editor Reg entry. Start Delphi. Format the source, all good. Exit and re-open Delphi. Format the source, back to where we started. 😞 Sigh!

Ah Ha! That got it sorted. Thanks for the assist/guidance. Regards, Ian

Yup. The same.

All disabled.

Used your .config. Got the same indent issue.. 😞 Got to be somewhere else.. I have disabled all my IDE plugins.. Ian

Hi Team, Philosophical discussion. Bit like which word processor is best. Is it better to have all the Database related components TEngine, TSession, TConnection, TTables, TQuerys, etc, in a datamodule or scattered around the forms.. Pros & Cons - Ready... Go!!

Uwe nailed my position... 🙂

Nnnnoooooo!!!!! Yes, Tim is a one man shop, but he poduces excellent products at a great price and excellent support. Let's keep it that way....

Hi Team, Based on Ray Koonopka's presentation in the 2023 Delphi Con, I thought I would have a look at Actions via an ActionList.. All seems fine with one exception.. When I connect an Action to a Button, the Actions 'OnExecute' event gets inserted into the button's 'OnClick' event. Is this normal/correct? Is it OK to leave there? Regards & TIA, Ian

Tks Guys. Appreciated.

Hi Team, D11.2. I was chasing a component issue and ended up in the CatalogRepository.. I found that I had multiple entries for ostensibly the same thing.. e.g. There are lots more before and after... Are the earlier files still required or are they just taking up space? Regards & TIA, Ian

I have now backed up the settings per the migration tool. No, I don't start Delphi with the -r parameter.

Interesting happening. D11.2. I have 20 odd projects in a 'Favourites' folder. I compressed one of the projects folder because I copied it to a new folder and was working there on a modified version. Did what I had to do. Closed and restarted Delphi and all projects from and including the compressed project, were missing?? All twelve of them. I had to reload them all again. 😞 I can understand, but not necessarily like, the compressed folder project being missing, but the rest?? Ian

I was there for Y2K. Not sure I will be around for Y10K... 😉

Hi Team, What is the cleanest/safest way to close an Application during Main Form Creation? I tried just Close; but it keeps going. 😞 Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Team, I need to be able to create and add to a list in a database table. ATT I am using a Memo field and simply adding lines, all text, to it. Is this the best/most efficient way to do it? Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Guys, Perhaps my describing the information as a list is missleading.. Basically it is a log of events, each entry looking roughly like.. "This has been done with that at this datetime" Each time the event happens a new entry is added, notionally the same with the datetime being updated. Ian

Hi Team, I have a Timer routine that runs every minute. The routine detects if there is an AlertMessage.txt file present and if there is, opens it, populates then executes the modal dialog. It does this every minute. If the User doesn't acknowledge the first dialog another will be popped up on top. And so on.. Is there some way to detect if the original dialog is still open so subsequent executions don't occur? Regards & TIA, Ian

Thanks Guys for your suggestions. Doh!! So simple! Just disable/enable the timer... I'm embarrassed. 🙂 Regards & Tks Again, Ian

Hi Team, Does anybody know of an English version of GLibWMI? I'm afraid my French, or whatever language it is, is not all that good. i.e. non existant. Also, I don't think English Users would appreciate non-english prompts. 😉 Alternatively, is there another Library that provides similar functionality? I'm really only after the ability to stop/start windows services. Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Team, You might want to upvote this RSP submission if you experience the same issue I do.. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-40401?filter=-3 Regards, Ian

The monitors are scaled to the recommended 150%. This works fine for all Apps in the main.