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John R.

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  1. John R.

    Developer Express gave up on FMX

    Interesting. I did not know that. Thanks for your input. That's another problem. DevExpress consistently produced roadmaps for their VCL controls in the last few years, alongside their .Net product line.
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    Developer Express gave up on FMX

    Are they giving up VCL too ? I'm sure I'm wrong but: Despite multiple requests, this is the first time that they haven't issued a VCL roadmap for 2022, while other technologies they support had a proper roadmap months ago: https://supportcenter.devexpress.com/ticket/details/t1072425/vcl-roadmap-2022 Even though I've always received excellent support from them, my recent (quite simple) support request was treated rapidly, lightly and required far more exchanges that necessary. This might be this specific issue but I wasn't expecting that from them
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    Delphi 11.1 Crash on Search Menu Access

    No crash here but I always have some "fear" when clicking the "Search" menu because it can either open instantly, or wait a few seconds which is infuriating. The same happens with the CTRL+SHIFT+F keyboard shortcut. I'm still using Delphi 11 but someone on Facebook mentioned that this is still happening with 11.1 😒
  4. Please improve your update process: customers need to contact you and wait for a link to get updates. This could take a few hours or days which is far too long, especially when updating to a new version of Delphi and ImageEn is the ONLY missing component which I have to wait for 😞 You should either provide a secure download location for existing customers, or automatically send a download link for archiving purposes when a new release is available. Thanks.
  5. After years of using VMWare Workstation, I switched to Hyper-V (bundled with Windows) and it has been working perfectly so far. As I use VMs from a remote desktop connection, I can't see any differences from my previous workflow. The most important gain for me is that machines are automatically stopped and re-launched when Windows restarts, which wasn't possible in Workstations before (I believe that this has been enhanced in recent versions of VMWare Workstation though). Under those conditions, I couldn't justify the cost of VMWare Workstation anymore.
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    ANN HTML Library 4.1 released

    OK this is working. If I may, you should better showcase a feature that is #2 on your "What's new" list in the future as I've lost a lot of time trying to find it. Thank you for your help.
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    ANN HTML Library 4.1 released

    OK I can see it on the compiled EXE but nothing appears when I select text on the trial Delphi 10.1 Berlin demo.
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    ANN HTML Library 4.1 released

    Sorry but I can't find it. I tried to download it again, then demos "Editor XE-XE103", "Editor Mobile", "Editor FMX" and can't find any reference to MathML or any equation editor button.
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    ANN HTML Library 4.1 released

    Do you have a sample / documentation for MathML support ? Does it include an editor ? Thanks.
  10. Hi, I'm in the process of modernizing my application's installation procedure and I'm wondering if there is any official and up-to-date documentation about best practices for installers on recent versions of Windows ? For example, it looks like "My Documents" should never be used to place sample per-user data (as it is sometimes disabled by system administrators) but replaced by "AppData\Roaming". But do I still need administrator's privileges to install the application in "Program Files" or is it not considered best practice anymore ? I admit that I created the installer a long time ago (Windows XP era) and didn't proceed to any major update since then. Any recommendation would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, John.
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    Windows installer: best practices ?

    Thank you for your input @Sherlock I'm successfully using InnoSetup too. I wouldn't update this installer if it wasn't for bug reports mentioning an error during installation saying that the "My Documents" folder doesn't exist. I learned that administrators can disable this folder. As I obviously need to spend some time on the installer to fix this problem, I'm simply wondering if there is any best practice document from Microsoft somewhere that I haven't found yet.
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