Vandrovnik

If your app is not able to handle new datatypes introduced in Firebird 4, you can use DataTypeCompatibility = 3.0 in firebird.conf You can also typecast the result of the multiplication to something you can handle.

Use SUBSTRING instead of SUBSTR, as Serge_G wrote...

I have used it once last year, it was working. Not fast, but working (Win 32 app).

Using Pdfium (free), you can convert PDF page to bitmap, add what you need and print this bitmap. Synopse contains SynPdf.pas, which allows you to create PDF (from that bitmap, for example).

In the past, I was also happy with one version for many years, but once you use Delphi to create an application for Android and you want to keep this application up to date in Google Play, you probably need this yearly new bells - without it, Google Play will not allow you to upload updates for older API.

They probably don't return money. In February 2019, when I complained loudly about bugs in Delphi 10.3 and 10.3.1, I got a small discount for next subscription, which I bought later in 2019.

I guess they do not have any free resources to backport changes to older versions. In that situation, I prefer current situation - use resources to patch and improve just the current version and don't split resources over two or more versions.

In classic keymapping: Ctrl + K, <number> - set bookmark Ctrl + Q, <number> - go to bookmark For me it works only with numbers on the main part of keyboard and it does not work on numeric part of the keyboard.

Are there more problems than in D10.4.2?

There is a possibility to build from command line: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Sydney/en/Building_a_Project_Using_an_MSBuild_Command

string[20] is, AFAIK, ansi string (= expect problems...).

No, it was Windows problem (affecting Kyocera and a few others). https://www.windowslatest.com/2021/03/10/windows-10-kb5000802-march-update-is-crashing-pcs-with-bsod/ https://www.kyoceradocumentsolutions.com/asia/en/about-us/press/20210317_news.html

In fact, these unsupported machines created no problem this year, while supported Windows 10 created a few of problems, one of them really serious (after one actualization, printing to Kyocera printers resulted in BSOD).

Migration Tool copied registry entries from D 10.4.2 to D 11? There is a button "Version upgrade" in Migration Tool during restore, which must be clicked (or manually disable "some" items in the list).

From my point of view, compatibility with old versions of Windows is one of important benefits of applications written in Delphi. If they broke this compatibility just because of GetTickCount64, they are throwing this benefit away needlessly.

Thank you! Emba could do the same...

Now they support Android 8.1 or newer. For our customers it is a problem (some have barcode scanners with Android 6). Is it possible to create new vesrions of the app in Delphi 11, or I have to keep 10.4.2? Or do apps from Delphi 11 still run fine on Android 6 and they just do not test it?

I just copies it from https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-10506 I suppose it was created in 2015, but I would believe in 2011, too 🙂

This one was created on 11/Mar/15 🙂

Num := Ord(Str[Low(Str)]) - Ord('A') + 1; Or, if you are sure your strings begin at offset 1: Num := Ord(Str[1]) - Ord('A') + 1;

Edit1.Text is string, not char. Try Edit1.Text[1] (and do not forget to test length of the text first).

The note about dinosaurs was from linked https://blogs.embarcadero.com/windows-11-a-beautiful-meteor-will-wipe-out-the-dinosaurs/ I hope there will be an easy way to install W11 without TPM (because my PC is dinosaur 🙂 ).

"If your PC doesn’t have a TPM capability then Windows 11 will be the falling rock which wipes out your beloved dinosaur hardware. " - May be linux installed on metal, created virtual machine using libvirtd + QEMU and virtualised TPM? 🙂

It sounds like a Muprhy's Law: the most useful methods are usualy declared as private.

I use OverlayBand for watermark (but I have it under other things). In current version of FastReport, images can use alpha channel and they are correctly alpha-blended; this works for PDF export if Image.Transparent is set to False and PDF export filter has Transparency set to True; for me, it does not work when I "print" the report to PdfCreator.