Ian Branch

Hi Guys, Thank you for your inputs. Appreciated. The methodology was developed for a specific purpose, to determine the User's choice before the form was constructed/shown. I use it in multiple Apps. Some where there is only one form, others where the form is called from a menu. It does exactly what I wanted/needed. The idea of returning to the Dialog was just a whim I had to make things a little simpler for the User. FYI: The Dialog looks roughly like this, depending on the App: I have scrapped the 'whim'. Regards, Ian

Hi Team, D12.1 I may have the wrong tool but I used to have an option at the bottom of the IDE Projects sub menu that allowed me to manage the file version information. I thought it was MMX but I may have that wrong. Anyway, that option has disappeared. 😞 Can anybody advise? Regards & TIA, Ian

Found it! It was DDevExtensions by Andreas Hausladen.

Hi Uwe, Yes that is correct however the added convenience of the added menu option was vey convenient. I construe from your response that it wasn't part of MMX. It has been part of my menu for so long I have forgotten where it came from/what put it there. I shall look elsewhere.. Thank you for responding. Ian

Hi Remy, There is only the one form.

Hi Team, I am rebuilding my PC. 😞 Fortunately I have backups. 🙂 I can recover my Codesnip data files if someone can tell me: a. Where they are kept; and b. What their file extent looks like/is. Once I have the right information I can restore the relevant directories. Regards & TIA, Ian

Ahhh. Excellent! Tks Brian. All recovered now. Tks again, Ian

Hi Team, D12.1, Win 11, 32bit Apps. I have something strange happening when Compiling or Building in the IDE. If I load a Project Group and Compile or Build, it runs through and completes quickly as normal. If I load one of those projects from the Project Group on its own, the IDE seems to take snail pills and slows down both in response and in compling & building. To the extent that after editing the project, it is quicker to close it, load the project group and compile/build it... I thought it might have been a plug-in but I have disabled all of them and have the same result. I thought it might have been my AC so I disabled it, same result. Anybody had this issue? Anybody got any thoughts/suggestions as to where to look? Regards & TIA, Ian

Further A-B testing this morning confirmed my suspicion. With previous version, it took approx. 10sec. to build the project. With new version, it took approx.. 1m 56s. ☹ QED. I have let the Developer know. I will stick with the old version for now.

I think I found it. I don't want to put the mozz on it but it seems to be OK now. I recalled that I had installed a component update. I reverted to the previous version and all is good now, so far. A full day tomorrow without issues and I will call it...

A further observation: I mentioned above that if I open a project group and Build and/or Compile it, all is well. I just discovered that if I open the project group, and open one of the files of one of the projects in the IDE, and try to Build/Compile, I get the poor response from the IDE and the Build/Compile. 😞 If I then close that file in the IDE and right click on that same project, the Build/Compile is normal.

Hi Uwe, To eliminate that possibility, I deleted a project's .dsk file and then opened the project. Same issue when I go to build it. 😞 7m 55s to build what is a small project/app

Hi Team, Are Rigistry entries refering to Borland anything still relevant? Or are they just left overs from past installs?

Thank you David. I will leave them well alone. 🙂

Good is a relative term.. 😉 GExperts has a 'Code Librarian'. https://blog.dummzeuch.de/experimental-gexperts-version/ Then there is CodeSnip. https://github.com/delphidabbler/codesnip I use both. Neither have all three of the capabilities you mention. HTH, Ian

Hi Team, I have downloaded and installed SVGIconsImageList from GitHub. No issues there. The components are appearing in most of my Apps projects under the Design tab components except for one form in a project. A Datamodule. It is fine if/when I install SVGIconImageList via GetIt. What could be causing them to be missing from just the one form on the one project? It is complaining that Class TSVGIconImageCollection is not found. Regards & TIA, Ian

Noted. Again, I have never knowingly touched this.

OK. {%CLASSGROUP 'System.Classes.TPersistent'} Didn't look right, so I changed it to; {%CLASSGROUP 'Vcl.Controls.TControl'} And it is happ now. I have no idea how/when it was et to System.Classes.TPersistent. 😞 Thanks for the prompt/pointer. Regards, Ian

This is the code for the Datamodule: unit dmImages; interface uses System.SysUtils, System.Classes, Vcl.BaseImageCollection, SVGIconImageCollection, GITLAKLib; type TdmI = class(TDataModule) SVGIC: TSVGIconImageCollection; end; var dmI: TdmI; implementation {%CLASSGROUP 'System.Classes.TPersistent'} {$R *.dfm} end. It is working fine as is att using SVGIconsImageList from GitHub. Ian

Hi Team, D12.1 A 3rd Party IDE plug in on GitHub pricked my interest. I downloaded, built and installed it. As it turns out, it isn't of any use to me. I can't find any mechanism to remove it. I could delete the .bpl. but will probably end up with error messages when i start the IDE. I found an entry in the Registry but: a. I am unsure if it is the right/only one to delete. b. I am leary of doing so on spec as I have been bitten a couple of times previously playing in the registry. What is the best/safest method to remove it please? Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Remy, Agreed, but, it didn't appear there, or I would have. Regards, Ian

Tks Anders, It wasn't under 'Known IDE Packages', it was under 'Known Packages'. All good now Tks. Regards, Ian

Hi Team, I want to display a conditional message on data change. The condition tests a couple of fields in the record and if the test is True then a message is displayed. I currently have relevant code in the Table DataChange event. Unfortunately, the message is displayed on every occurrance when a record is selected past other records that the condition is true. 😞 How can I get this to work/show only when the the data changing has stopped and the selected record is visible to the User? Ian

Tks. I added the functionality to the InChange of a Read-Only DBEdit on the Form and it works perfectly. Ian

Whilst I have always kept up to date withthe Delphi versions, I have a soft spot for D2007.