Brian Evans

Your password strings as posted are infested with zero width non-breaking spaces at differing locations.

Check the Info tab in the FireDAC Connection Editor after trying to connect. As well not sure what you mean by: "I've set up a Windows credential that seems to work"

Looks like registry keys from old releases came along for the ride for some users.

Just looked for public/free servers and could not find any. Only paid access mostly targeted at those who want access to binary groups. The Internet Archive does have some collections of Usenet traffic. So far only see one for comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc and it looks to only go as far back to mid 1997 as well. In mbox format presented as a zip file containing one large text file. usenet-comp directory listing (archive.org)

Most internet service providers stopped providing Usenet servers for customer use over a decade ago. You need to find and use a public Usenet server (usually limited to text newsgroups) or pay for access to one.

In Delphi 12 you can do Tools -> Manage Features to bring up the install dialog from inside the IDE to add or remove things like platform support and the Android SDK and suggested Java JVM. In earlier releases Tools -> Manage Platforms did the same, but it was more limited. It can be used to add/remove Windows 64-bit platform target amongst other things.

Looks fine: the top of the hint window is below line of text it is providing a hint for. Broken: The bottom of hint the window is where it's top used to be. This causes it to appear on top of the line of text it is providing a hint for.

Tested with Delphi 11.3 and it looks fine there. Don't have Delphi 12 installed to test with, just Delphi 12.1 and is broken in that release.

Reproduced in Delphi 12.1 here - turned on hints and see the same thing. The hint window has broken positioning - the bottom of the hint window is where the top should be. Usually run with scale 125%, switched to 100% and the improper positioning is still there and looks the same. In addition the hint window should be moved further away or the drop shadow removed as it will obscure text.

Mail merge in Word is another option - usually uses a word template (base document) and an excel spreadsheet (row with per person / output document) but can use other data sources.

Same. Didn't realize it till I checked just now as I had to yet to try and compile/build anything for a Windows 64-bit target that used non-GetIt third party components.

I did not create an issue. Account was created yesterday and today I followed a link to an issue as mentioned by DelphiUdIT and was able to read it and then see other reports. Not sure where/why the access group was fixed. They might be running a periodic script or doing manual updates.

Can see some issues submitted by others now. That makes it at least useable - can check if an issue is already submitted and add comments etc before spending time to create a new issue with a good description and steps to reproduce.

When I looked at the Parnassus stuff, I read the license, and it mentions calling home / collecting data. So, I uninstalled the one I was looking at and avoided the rest. In GetIt the Parnassus OÜ license has been replaced with the generic Embarcadero License so I am not sure if it still does this collection. Ref: License Agreement - Parnassus OÜ

No problem here. Suggest trying something like Process Monitor - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn to see if it shows the IDE is doing / trying to do something external (like access a file over a network etc) when it freezes. CTRL-C just puts a text representation of the component definition(s) on the system clipboard - might be slow if the components in question contain a lot of data but it's pretty much the same text as gets saved in the dfm file so shouldn't lock anything up.

For reporting and viewing your own reports or those specifically shared with you. The old portal's view of existing reports from other users is no longer there. Guessing Jira doesn't allow that in the cloud version without $$$ fees per user.

Used the web installer without issues (previous release days often had the servers overloaded) and only needed to reinstall anything installed through GetIt - other components like NexusDB, Developer Express VCL and MMX Code Explorer did not need to be re-installed. The Linux FMX support did not uninstall completely - the 12.1 IDE still tried to load something related to FMXLinux om startup producing an error dialog. Installing FMXLinux using GetIt cleared up the error message. So far seems a bit quicker / cleaner working on some small VCL projects.

It is for the new Clang-based C++ compiler tool chain for Win64. Mentioned on the docwiki: 12 Athens - Release 1 - RAD Studio (embarcadero.com)

Does it ever. Removes any collaboration between users. Also, without knowing if something is already reported hard to put in the effort to create a good report or find an uncomplicated way to reproduce - no idea if the effort will be wasted. I did not use the old one all that much but was happy to collaborate and help get the odd bug fixed. Like the dangling scrolls bars from code insight. With no collaboration not sure how that bug would ever have been fixed - reporter did not have a way to reproduce it, another person provided some insights and yet another (me in this case) was able to use that to find a way to reproduce. Then it was fixed in the next release which was nice to see. ([RSP-34111] Editor leaves dangling vertical scrollbar behind - Embarcadero Technologies)

My guess is you are looking at the wrong ends - the problem is a difference between what the web server sends to the client and what your client sends to the server.

Shouldn't you be trying to connect to the Laptop PC's hostname? The error seems more network related - as if no connection could be made to port 3050 on the target PC.

Seems suspicious to have what looks like a second create thread call with the same ClientSock but an increased prognum. In a case like this I would usually log or inspect before each call the parameters for the failing call to see if they make sense over multiple calls. Would also take a look at TTCPEchoThrd .create() to see what it does with the parameters being passed.

Looks like it. There was another post by the same account in a different topic that also looked auto generated but had an extra sentence not really on topic with a link to a commercial software/service website.

There is a help topic (been the same for a few versions); Upgrading Your RAD Server Engine - RAD Studio (embarcadero.com)

Filter set to Subscription Only and Categories set to all and Bonus KSVC 7.0 shows up in GetIt for Delphi 11.3 here second from the top.