Brian Evans

I was able to access Quality Central for a bit but now get 504 gateway errors. Getit in Delphi 12 currently hangs the IDE for a while until the window comes up and is then stuck on Searching. I have noticed long weekends attract more login attempts from spammers using compromised account information from other sites hoping some users re-used passwords. They hope to run amok until the following workday. The automated tools spammers use to check millions of compromised credentials can put a very heavy load on servers unless steps are taken to protect them. The Embarcadero servers get overloaded often unfortunately.

Any luck with what the help topic says? Or does that just apply to the form's interior? http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/Customizing_FireMonkey_Applications_with_Styles#Form_Style

Far as I know beta invites went out to all (most?) update subscription holders around 12 Aug which is when I got mine. What blocked you from participating?

Not all Windows setting pages have migrated to the new Settings App (the thing that won't open for you). Some can be gotten to by using the older Control Panel. Some entries in the older Control Panel just bring up pages in the new Settings App but not all. Like Control Panel -> Programs > Uninstall a program which brings up the older uninstall UI instead of the newer one from the Settings App. The older uninstall UI also has View installed updates option in the left column that can used to uninstall some Windows updates. Are you saying the older Control Panel doesn't open for you either? Below is an image with the newer Settings App on the left and the older Control Panel interface on the right.

You could use the GTK-Broadway backend to run a FmxLinux application as HTML5 on the browser. FireMonkey for Linux - RAD Studio (embarcadero.com) FmxLinux - HTML5 FireMonkey application - YouTube

Yes, reboot into troubleshooting mode. Try: On the Windows sign-in screen, press and hold the Shift key while you select Power Circle with line Power icon > Restart. Should get a blue screen with three options, pick Troubleshoot, then Advanced options. May take more than one shift + restart (seems to not work if it must log you out as well).

Another thing to try - use the older control panel instead of settings. Search for "control" and launch the Control Panel app from the results. Also search for "device manager" and launch that. I remember some manufacturer provided drivers / applications being a problem sometimes so try uninstalling any of those using the control panel and device manager.

If it's hasn't been long since this happened, you can reboot in troubleshooting mode and uninstall the update. As well Dell's suggestions include: - Log in as another user with administrator rights. If you can open the Settings app in that account, create a user account for yourself and delete the old account. - If none of the previous solutions resolved the issue, reinstall your operating system. (Windows 10: The Settings App Does Not Open or Flashes and Closes Instantaneously | Dell US)

Best to run it from a command line with administrator privileges as it installs a service and needs a command line option -i before it will do so. Been playing with it in a Windows Sandbox - Windows Security | Microsoft Learn so I must install it each time since everything poofs when I close the sandbox.

Note the VirusTotal sandbox uses Sysmon - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn which logs various events based on actions done by anything not just the executable itself like Process Monitor - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn does.

Not sure there is much of a point in doing that - an AAB provides information so an app store can generate APKs for multiple devices. Using an AAB locally just adds extra steps to building and sending an APK to a device for testing. What's the difference between AABs and APKs? App bundles are only for publishing and cannot be installed on Android devices. The Android package (APK) is Android's installable, executable format for apps. App bundles must be processed by a distributor into APKs so that they can be installed on devices.

Put the extra parameter in ODBCAdvanced for the FDConnection (under Params after selecting the MSSQL driver) or FDPhysMSSQLDriverLink.

Delphi 12 is better behaved on the taskbar than previous versions. No extra entries on the task bar for the running IDE - just one taskbar icon for both. Can now use Windows key + number key to both launch or switch to it. Even works to cycle between multiple running copies of the same Delphi 12. (Win+# are shortcuts for the first 10 application icons on the taskbar).

The dbxora.dll and midas.dll files are available in both the 32-bit and 64-bit redistributable directories. For example for Delphi 12 the redist directories for Windows are: C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\Redist\win32 C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0\Redist\win64

Some third-party libraries install a lot of packages - for example, the full Developer Express VCL Components 23.2.1 installs eighty-eight packages in Delphi 12. Something to search or filter the list would be useful when checking if another library and any of its optional packages are installed or not. Would be most used when migrating projects to newer versions of Delphi.

A quick google brings up Dew Research - Math Library Component Delphi Component C++ Builder Component Net A couple hundred channels at 1200hz should be fine on a modern multi core systems with support for some vector extensions like SSE/AVX etc. No real need for a GPU I think.

For older Delphi and newer but for often for different packages I put underscores in front package data/descriptions in Known IDE Packages which I do not want loaded. Delphi packages I have disabled by prefixing their description with an underscore (and why) « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff

Far as I know MMX only has one set of its own settings that apply to all the IDE's it is integrated with. The position/visibility of any MMX panels in an IDE you would have to set up as you like for the various desktops in the IDE (default, debug etc).

Not sure ARM will avoid the fate of the Motorola 68000 and PowerPC when going against x86 head on. The size of the full x86 ecosystem means there is much more money for processor development so that even when a competitor gets in a few wins it often falls behind over time. ARM has racked up some solid wins due to circumstances that are changing - x86 is no longer stalled by AMD (Bulldozer) or Intel (14nm) with both now making solid progress. Apple added support for the x86 memory access model to the M1/M2/M3 processors which makes running multi-core x86 emulation much easier and higher performing. This means during Apple's transition to ARM the latest x86 based Mac software runs well on the new M1/M2/M3 hardware. Since no other ARM systems currently have anything equivalent it means the latest Windows x86 software will run comparatively poorly on an ARM based system. That makes any transition or even just fielding Windows ARM systems harder as some programs will fare poorly. Apple has really aced the transition to ARM. I think x86 will remain strong due to the large legacy and current software libraries. Same for Windows itself. I do not think Windows for ARM will succeed - it can't run modern x86 software well making any transition off x86 very rough.

I don't use C++ Builder myself, but here is an answer from StackOverflow for a question from a few years ago: you must change two settings. Turn off the Dynamic RTL in the linker settings and disable linking with runtime packages in the package settings. delphi - Can I step into the VCL (Pascal) code while debugging a C++ app? - Stack Overflow debugging - C++ Builder XE2 - is it possible to debug vcl data library? - Stack Overflow

PCRE2 (10.x) was a fork of PCRE (1.x - 8.x) with a revised API so not a case of just updating the library itself. Delphi does need to migrate to the newer PCRE2 10.x from the now no longer in active development PCRE 8.x at some point. In the meantime, there are other regex libraries for Delphi that already support PCRE2.

Without more code hard to tell but keep in mind messages are sent as part of changing the visibility so the event loop can't be blocked if you want the form to go away.

A lot of file types. including PDFs, start with a known byte sequence which also mean they start with a known BASE64 sequence. So, to start with compare the first couple bytes to JVBERi0 . Format Bytes Chars BASE64 PDF 25 50 44 46 2D %PDF- JVBERi0

Short answer: No test case no fix. They do squash bugs when they have good descriptions and can be reproduced reliably. That makes it possible to see, understand, debug, fix and confirm the fix. The release and patch cycles are a bit slow, but it is what it is at this point. I have solved similar freezing issues before, but none were due to Delphi itself. Windows APIs tend to hang when trying to access non-existent network resources. Some old projects referenced common libraries on network shares on servers long gone but still in DNS. Strangest case was dead batteries in a RAID card which caused a Windows cluster to not use write caching - writes were only considered done when they hit the physical disks. Throughput dropped hilariously low for the hardware involved bottlenecking everything. That makes finding a freezing issue in Delphi itself harder without a way to reproduce as what a customer sees might not be due to Delphi itself. Seems like a catch-22 at this point: the freezing robs time from the same people we need to spend time on troubleshooting and trying to find a test case.

Far as I know an object's dependencies should come in through the Uses in its own unit file. You only need to add locally in the test unit anything you are using in your tests. Is the "not" accurate? Makes no sense at all.