Ian Branch

All good now. Tks Uwe.

Cheers & Tks.

Any word/progress on the update?

Bonzer! Tks Uwe.

Hi Team, I fudged it with D10 but I'm not sure I did it the best way. So what is the best way to replace/isolate the D11 installed/distributed Indy with latest Git Indy? I would prefer NOT to delete any of the installed/distributed Indy but if I must... Regards & TIA, Ian

Hear Hear. The sooner the better. It is interesting that other libraries can be optionally installed. I wonder if Delphi is using some element of Indy, thus requiring it to be installed....

There is an RSP for this.. https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-23412

Currently at rev 3853.

Hi Team, Need some help/guidance. I have an array of labels 12 x 7. These I can address by something like 'Matrix[0,1] to Matrix[12,7]'. Each label will have an integer value, and colour integer associated with it. e.g. [124, 255] the 124 in this case to be converted to string for the label's caption. How do I define an array, possible an array within a matrix, to accommodate this? Having defined the array how do I address an individual item in one of the label's array? Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Team, Using D11.1.1. Lately, seemingly after I installed the latest debug patch I have randomly at start up been getting a 'Version check error.'. It happens after all the libraries/plug-ins have loaded and just before the IDE actually displays. Clicking OK it disappears and everything seems normal. It doesn't happen every time, probably one in 5 starts of Delphi. I tried disabling all the plugins but it still happens. Anybody else experience this? Any thoughts/suggestions? Regards, Ian

Just an update. Turned out the culprit was RVMedia v 9. One brownie point for Dave. ;-) The product itself is fine. When it starts up it does a version check to 'home'. This hiccups from time to time. Sergey is looking into it. In the mean time this check on start up can be turned off by right click any RVMedia component at design time and choose “Check for RVMedia update”. In the version check dialog, uncheck “Check on start” checkbox. As I said, there is nothing wrong with the product itself during design & run time, just the hiccup at Delphi start. HTH somebody else. Ian

I echo Peter's words but in Win 11.

Because I wasn't seeing it and getting more and more confused so I decided to take the easy way out. I put it down, had a coffee, and came back to it. I now have it.. type TForm26 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); private { Private declarations } type TLabelRecord = record iValue: Integer; iColor: Integer; end; type TLabelMatrix = array[1..12, 1..7] of TLabelRecord; public { Public declarations } end; var Form26: TForm26; implementation {$R *.dfm} procedure TForm26.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var LabelRecord1, LabelRecord2: TLabelRecord; LabelMatrix: TLabelMatrix; begin LabelRecord1.iValue:= 123; LabelRecord1.iColor := 234; LabelMatrix[1,1] := LabelRecord1; // LabelRecord2 := LabelMatrix[1,1]; ShowMessage('Value = '+LabelRecord2.iValue.ToString); ShowMessage('Color = '+LabelRecord2.iColor.ToString); // end; Thank you for your patience & guidance. Ian

I surrender. I have gone to two arrays.. LabelValue: array of array of Integer; LabelColor: array of array of Integer; Thank you for your suggestions/advice. Ian

Hi David, OK. I think I understand. So now I have.. type TForm26 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); private { Private declarations } type TLabelRecord = record iValue: Integer; iColor: Integer; end; type TLabelMatrix = array[1..12, 1..7] of TLabelRecord; public { Public declarations } end; var Form26: TForm26; implementation {$R *.dfm} procedure TForm26.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var rRec: TLabelRecord; mLabelMatrix: TLabelMatrix; begin end; But how do I address one element of rRec within one element of mLabelMatrix?

Hi David, I figured it was going to be a multidimensional array of record. So I tried the following.. type TForm26 = class(TForm) Button1: TButton; procedure Button1Click(Sender: TObject); private { Private declarations } type TLabelRecord = record iValue: Integer; iColor: Integer; end; LabelMatrix = array of array of TLabelRecord; public { Public declarations } end; var Form26: TForm26; implementation {$R *.dfm} procedure TForm26.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); begin SetLength(LabelMatrix, 11, 6); end; Delphi tells me the SetLength code in the Button Click is wrong, object (LabelMatrix) cannot be passed as a parameter, but I don't know why. 😞 I don't care if it starts at 0 or 1, whatever the default is. I don't know what to do from here.. 😞

Hi Guys, I am only going on hearsay reports from Users att, I haven't experienced it myself, yet. Is there any reason a TaskMessageDlg('..... would appear under/behind a Delphi form? Users have reported that they have experienced this. Seems the App appears to freeze, one User happened to have his form just to one side of the screen and saw the dialog appear half exposed and half behind his form. :-( He responded to the dialog appropriately and all was good. I asked a couple of other Users to move their form aside slightly and they have seen/experienced the same thing. Unfortunately, it is not consistent. :-( I have asked the to try to do a screen capture and send it to me but they haven't as yet. :-( Hence the opening 'hearsay'. Any thoughts/Suggestions? Regards, Ian

Hi Team, D11.1.1. I have used the following construct in the calling/main form extensively.. // ChangesLogForm := TChangesLogForm.Create(self); // try ChangesLogForm.ShowModal; finally DBC1.CloseDataSets; FreeAndNil(ChangesLogForm); end; // for showing Modal forms. I now need to show several forms at the same time so I moved to this construct.. // ChangesLogForm := TChangesLogForm.Create(self); // ChangesLogForm.Show; // and added 'Action := caFree;' in the OnClose of the forms. Is this safe/correct/acceptable? Are there any -ve consequences? Regards & TIA, Ian

Noted. Tks.

Thank you David & Attila, I just want to be sure. :-) The CloseDataSets was valid in the original code where only one sub-form was open at a time, however it isn't appropriate where multiple forms are going to be open. The relevant dataset is closed in the sub-form before the actual Close. Regards & Tks again, Ian

Hi Team, D10.3.3. I want to detect Windows shutdown in Win 7 and Win 10 in order to ensure data is saved before the App gets clobbered. I have tried a few examples using.. { Private declarations } procedure WMQueryEndSession(var Msg: TWMQueryEndSession); message WM_QUERYENDSESSION; plus its associated routine, without success. I suspect the above may be OK in Win 7, haven't tried it yet, but not for Win 10. Anybody got code working as desired in Win 10? Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Mahris, Yes, since I started this I discovered and no use OnCloseQuery. Thank you for the follow up. Ian

Hi Thomas, I very much appreciate your heads up in the build script for D2007 in regard to the missing 'Borland.' files when Win 11 updates, and the provisioning of said files. It has saved my bacon several times recently. 🙂 Regards, Ian

So, I shut my modem/router down for a couple of minutes and I still got the intermittent error. First time it errored, the second it didn't. That suggests something else is afoot... I really would prefer it to be consistent, i.e. happen all the time, then I have a better chance of isolating it.

Hi Dave, No I didn't. It didn't occur to me that component packages would be doing what was possibly an online version check. This would be problematic if you weren't online. Actually the whole version check, if done online would be problematic if not online. Ian