Ian Branch

Hi Team, At the instruction of my main Customer I am reverting to D10.4.2. They, and I for that matter, are tired of dealing with screens/forms/components not showing correctly where they did in 10.4. I start D11 with the '/highdpi/unaware' switch but am still having issues. As I don't need a very disgruntled Customer, 'his wish is my command'. I will reconsider after D11.1 is released, and then very cautiously. Sigh! It had such potential. Just thought you might like to know my experience. Regards, Ian

Hi Team, I have reached what seems to be a working compromise.. ;-) I am designing, developing, testing, etc in D10.4.2. Then when I am satisfied all is OK I do a final Build in D11. This is seemingly giving me the best of both worlds... 1. I am working in a known development environment with all the tools I am familiar with. 2. The final build incorporates the D11 code improvements incorporated. 3. Not overly critical but the final .exe files are slightly smaller. Now. If I could get the D10.4.2 IDE to build with the D11 Compiler & libraries, I wouldn't have to switch... ;-) I hold hope for D11 Patch 2 or even later D11.1. Ian

Hi Daniel, Any word?? Ian.

Hi Daniel, Any progress on WUPPDI for D11? The D11 interface feels so clunky after using WUPPDI in D10. Ian

Hi Thomas, Rev 3677 fails to build in D2007.

HI Team, D10.4.2, Win 11. When I installed the latest MMX I started to get the errors as indicated in the attached images. The errors occur if I just open Delphi and close it straight away. I swapped back to the previous version, 15.0.38.2440, and I don't get the errors. I then swapped back to the new mmx again and the error returned. Regards, Ian n.b. edbrun235.... is an ElevateDB bpl.

Hi Uwe, Solved! Although I don't understand why. You will recall from above that one of the error messages was related to edbrunxxxx, the run time library for ElevateDB. As a test I removed edbdesignxxxx from the components. The issue and all errors disappeared. I reinstalled EDB and the issues remain gone. ?? I am guessing that perhaps it was related to some hook(s) into the IDE that MMX was also trying to use. Effectively changing them around changed the order of the hooks. Having said that, it doesn't explain why I got the initial errors with only GExperts & MMX installed. Oh Well. I guess I should be happy that the issues have gone. Thanks for your time/support. Apologies if I caused any angst. Regards, Ian

If anybody is interested. In going back to D10.4.2 from D11 I had to remove multiple 'PixelsPerInch = 96' from my .dfm files. D10.4.2 didn't like them either at design time, but not always, or, having built OK, the App(s) failed at Run time due to the line presence in the .dfms. All good now.

Alas! So it is.. 😞

At the initial installation of Delphi 10.4.2, and loading of MMX, the only other plugin at the time was the latest GExperts. As I indicated having loaded MMX I exited Delphi, as I generally do as I load plugins, and the issue appeared. I haven't bothered with cnPack yet. I have since then loaded all my usual 3rd party libraries. As a test I just now de-installed GExperts and reinstalled MMX 15.0.44.2474 and the Issue reappears. Ian

Hi Team, The Customer uses multiple modes. LAN, RDP & ThinFinity for his Staff as they work from Home and from multiple Shops. As well as Android tablets via their browser into Thinfinity. The Apps are all 32 bit. I have not been able to reproduce any of their 'issues', except in my first days of D11, but they insist that they are getting screens not writing correctly with issues ranging from the left side of text cut off in the field to whole sections of the from moving up over the components above. This one seems to be related to having a TPanel on top of a TPanel. I observed other issues also related to TPanel. To fields disappearing. There should be a DB field after Name in this image and the whole bottom section has moved up a little more than the height of the 'Consumer' text. When I log in via the same means, the field shows. Here, in a different App, you can see the 19 that should be the day in the date only just showing the back of the 9. Again, when I logged in, all the date, 19/10/2021 showed. They have cited other similar issues but haven't supplied images. Regardless of where the issue is att, 'The Customer is always right' until proven otherwise. As far as reporting, I am knee deep in going back to D10.4.2 where there were none of these issues, so I can get a fresh set of Apps, 21 of them, uploaded to the Customer's server tonight. I appreciate your inputs. Obviously if I was able to reproduce the issue(s) I could address them but alas.... Ian

Hi Uwe, I dropped this because I had moved on to D11. The issues did not occur there. My hand has been forced and I have moved back to D10.4.2 which involved a clean install of D10.4.2. After all the patches etc for D10.4.2, the first thing I installed was GExperts. The second thing installed was MMX 15.0.46.2479. To my surprise, the issue I started this thread occurs. :-( I had forgotten. So, after some further testing I have determined it is something in the change from 15.0.38.2440 to the next version I have, 15.0.44.2474. The issues occur with 44.2474, not with 38.2440. Is there anything I can do/assist with to try to identify the problem? I can work in the short term with having to 'OK' the messages when I close D10.4.2, but it gets tedious after a while.. For now I will install 38.2440 but I am missing that tweak you did for me to the Uses clause sorting.. Regards, Ian

All good now. Thanks Thomas. Ian

Hi Team, Win 11, D11 in HighDPI mode, 4k monitor. During design time my button looks like SS-12 attached on a TPanel. At Run time it looks like SS-13.. 😞 If I put the button on the form on its own it is normal at run time. SS-14. Is this a TPanel issue? The Button is a standard TBitBtn. Is it resolvable? I don't get this issue if I open Delphi with the /highdpi:unaware switch. See SS-15 attached. Regards & TIA, Ian

Ummm. Why does this appear, then disappear while D11 starts?? In earlier iterations it just flashed on/off screen.

No problem Thomas. Just trying to contribute. If it makes any difference for the Experts Dialog - I open Delphi with the /highdpi:unaware switch.

Although not a competitor for the Expert Manager in GExperts, it would be nice if it showed experts that have been disabled in Gexperts and you could enable them.

Hi Thomas, Win 11, D11, build 3656. 4k monitor. When I open the Expert Manager it doesn't allow me to do anything. I just get the Windows error beeps when I click anywhere on it. I can close the Expert Manager with Alt-F4. And Delphi is fine. So far. :-) Ian

Hi Thomas, Win 11 PC with latest (this week) updates. FYI - Build 3656 fails to build for D2007 - D11 builds OK. Ian

Hi Anders, Thank you for your reply/offer. I am in the middle of a project att and again I have mitigated the issue by setting the form contraints. When I clear this project I will revert the build and have a play as you suggest and advise. Regards & Tks Again, Ian

Ah Ha! It is the ClientWidth and the ClientHeight that are changing value.. 😞

Hi Team, Apologies if this isn't the correct place for this. The PC that we develop on has evolved significantly since Delphi 1. We now have multi core, multi thread processors, SSDs, etc, etc. My question is.. What spec/hardware characteristic of a PC has the most benefit/impact on the performance on the IDE? Is it RAM speed, SSD speed, CPU Cores, etc? I currently run Win 11 with D11, 32GP RAM , fast SSD, 6core I7. Regardless of the spec of my existing PC, what is the single change can I make to my PC that will have the most impact/improvement to the performance of the IDE. I suspect this will be like 'what is the best code editor?' question. 🙂 Regards & TIA, Ian

Well that's a No-No. What normally takes 3 and a bit minutes was still going 14 minutes later... 😞

cnPack has a setting to set the IDE to CPU 0. Anybody got any thoughts on the benefit or otherwise of this?

Ahh. Hadn't thought along those lines. Will have a look. PCIE - Samsung 980s.