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Hi Thomas, Yes, that was one, another was DelphiDistiller, however it hasn't been updated for D-Rio. Regards, Ian

Hi haentschman, Not in my case. I have been in and out of D-Rio multiple times and the libraries/components are still not enabled. Does it perhaps have something to do with the Saving and Desktop IDE setting? I have Autosave off for both the available options. There is a Delphi utility around somewhere that allows you to delete Delphi libraries/components, along with a lot of other Delphi related stuff, but I don't recall its name. Other than that, I have nothing to offer. Regards, Ian

Hi Guys, I just disabled the BPLs in Delphi. 1. Go to Component|Install Packages 2. Disable the LiveBindings packages. See picture attached. That's all. Regards, Ian

Hi Anders, Partially my fault, I initially thought it was the save action until I saw that it wasn't and it was in fact the close. YESSSS!!!!!! All good now. I disabled the 3 LiveBindings libraries and now the save/close all takes around 10 seconds. :-) Having now done that, I seem to recall a similar thing a couple of years ago. Note to self - Disable LiveBindings when any new Delphi comes along. Thanks Anders, and to all the other contributors. Regards, Ian

Hi Team, et al, This has consumed too much of my time. 305 files, if I do a global component replace with GExperts, say TButton to TBitBtn, then save the project, the files save very quickly, it is the closing that takes around 13 minutes. As I can edit and do what I need to do in D2007, and save/close in under 30 secs, I will do all my updating there. Thank you all for your suggestions although some of them are out of my ken. ;-) Regards, Ian

Hi Team, Tim, jbg, Sorry that is out of my knowledge/skill set. :-( Achim, Anders, Regretfully neither made any difference. :-( Thank you all for your suggestions. Regards, Ian

Hi Dalija, I closed the Welcome tab - Didn't make any difference. What I did try was to Save the Project before Closing all. It save very quickly. I could see all the modified files, .pas & .dfm get updated in the directory very quickly. I then went Close All - That is what is taking so long..:-( Ian

stijnsanders - Didn't make any difference. RonaldK - No. Thanks for your thoughts guys. Ian

Hi Tomas, Yes, one core is being maxed out for a good % of its time. Delphi itself is sitting at around 10% of CPU usage. As far as I can tell, I have disabled almost all IDE extensions with the exception of GExperts, of course. Same 13 minutes to save/close. The project itself uses no 3rd Party libraries/components with the exception of DBISAM for the Database. The .dfm files are all text not binary. Regards, Ian

Interesting - The same project, making the same changes across the entire project, takes less than 30 seconds to save/close in D2007.

Hi Darian, Thank you for your suggestions. I have IDE Fix Pack installed. I uninstalled my AV totally to test. Still took 13 minutes or so to save & close the project. Added info: All drives are SSDs. Regards, Ian

Hi Guys, I am trying to figure out how I can give the User 3 tries at logging in with the following code before exiting the Login form and throwing him/her out. The following is the basic code for the Login Form; class function TLogInForm.Execute: Boolean; begin // with TLogInForm.Create(nil) do try Result := ShowModal = mrOk; finally Free; end; // end; procedure TLogInForm.FormClose(Sender: TObject; var Action: TCloseAction); begin Action := caFree; end; procedure TLogInForm.btnCancelClick(Sender: TObject); begin ModalResult := mrCancel; end; procedure TLogInForm.btnOKClick(Sender: TObject); begin // if DoLogin then ModalResult := mrOk else ModalResult := mrCancel; // end; function TLogInForm.DoLogin: Boolean; begin // Result := False; // // Set The Engine, Session & Database parameters, if required. // // // // 'Condition' User ID & Password. sUserID := UpperCase(Trim(edtUserID.Text)); sPassword := Trim(edtPassword.Text); // with tblUsers do begin Open; // Test for User ID is in DB. if not FindKey([sUserID]) then begin MessageDlg('User ID not found!', mtInformation, [mbOK], 0); Exit; end; // if Trim(FieldByName('UsrPasswrd').AsString) <> sPassword then begin MessageDlg('User''s password is invalid!', mtError, [mbOK], 0); Exit; end; // end; // Result := True; // end; Any assistance on how to do this is greatly appreciated. Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Attila, The login form is called from and returns to the project .dpr file. begin // if TLogInForm.Execute then begin Application.Initialize; Application.CreateForm(TMainForm, MainForm); Application.Run; end else begin Application.MessageBox('You are not authorized to use the application.', 'Password Protected Delphi application'); end; end. Regards, Ian

Hi Remy, Good call. Exactly as you surmised. Made the OK button mrNone and all good now. Thank you for the assist and thanks again to Attila. Regards, Ian

Hi Attila, Thank you your suggestions. I have removed the Form OnClose event. The DoLogin is returning the correct thing if the log in is invalid and failcount gets incremented, however the routine then drops out and it displays the Main Form rather than looping back to retry the user ID & password. Ian

Hi Team I am playing with calling a login form/dialog before the main form is created/run. Based on work by Zarko Gajic. https://www.thoughtco.com/display-a-login-password-dialog-1058469 program Passwordapp; uses Vcl.Forms, System.UITypes, MainFrm in 'MainFrm.pas' {MainForm} , LogInFrm in 'LogInFrm.pas' {LogInForm}; {$R *.res} begin // if TLogInForm.Execute then begin Application.Initialize; Application.CreateForm(TMainForm, MainForm); Application.Run; end .. .. The LoginForm is destroyed when closed. It is no longer required. procedure TLogInForm.FormClose(Sender: TObject; var Action: TCloseAction); begin Action := caFree; end; I need to be able to preserve the UserID from the LogIn dialog. Is there a way to pass the UserID from the LogIn form back to the above and be able to then read it into the main form when it is created? Regards & TIA, Ian P.S. D10.3.1.

Test for code.. class function TLogInForm.Execute(const sDatabase: string): string; begin // MessageDlg('The database passed is..' + sDatabase, mtInformation, [mbOK], 0); // with TLogInForm.Create(nil) do try if ShowModal = mrOk then Result := edtUserID.Text else Result := ''; // Result := ShowModal = mrOK; finally Free; end; // end; Ahhh. I see. Tks Remy

Hi Remy, Thanks for that. I was fixated on keeping the logic boolean return from the login form that I didn't think of using the UserID return. Thanks for the advice. Regards, Ian

Slightly of-topic but related. Is there any benefit to using the full FastMM4 as opposed to just the in-built Delphi version?

Hi Thomas, I have had a look at the OSDN page. Where/how does one actually download the dzLib? I don't recognise any download type prompt. Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Team, I think, from time to time I have seen a function embedded in another function. I think. Something like.. function foobar(param1, param2: string): string; var somevar: string; begin function inside(Param3: string): string; var anothervar: string; Begin Do something with Param3; .... ... Result := anothervar; end; ... Somevar := inside(somestring); Result := Somevar; end; Is this doable? If so, what is the mechanism for it pls? Why do I want to do this? So I can embed a function in the main function and not have to have it as a separate app function. Regards & TIA, Ian

Ahh. Excellent. Thanks Remy.

Hi Guys, When I build my Apps I send the .exe files to an Applications folder for testing. When I do that, the .drc and .map files go there too. Is there any way to have the .drc & .map files stay in the source/development directory, or somewhere else, rather than the Apps directory? Regards & TIA, Ian

Hi Thomas, Yes I discovered that. Thanks for the alternative suggestion. Regards, Ian

Hi Sue, Excellent. Works perfectly. Thank you. Regards, Ian