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Not a problem, because as I said, I have the VM on several computers. Backups can be made with 2 mouse clicks.

I'm happy with different Delphi installations living in their virtual machines (Hyper-V). That also allows me to transfer the exact same Delphi installation to different PCs with no need to activate again.

For months. It works flawlessly. Keep in mind that you don't get anything from installing Edge on the target computer. You must either install the runtime, ship the needed binaries or install a beta/dev version. Explained here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webview2/concepts/distribution

Then I wonder what the point of outsourcing them into separate processes was. Maybe a cheap way of prolonging running out of memory for the 32 bit IDE process 😀 Oh well...

Same. I'm mainly using Mercurial as I somehow get things done twice as fast as in Git, but when I use git, VS Code and its plugins (like Git Graph) do everything I could ask for.

Or another library, like paolo-rossi/delphi-neon: JSON Serialization library for Delphi (github.com)

This doesn't answer your question, but ... ... this screams for unit tests like "Ensure requests are still properly going out after the previous server disconnected right in the middle of the transfer, sent garbage or timed out". Not only would you not have to constantly re-recreate clients, you can also sleep easier, knowing (instead of hoping) it works.

The memo content is just a string. You can split a string into multiple strings (string array). var sqlCommands := Memo1.Lines.Text.Split([';']);

A "profiler" does exactly just that. Have you fed "delphi profiler" into a search engine of your choice?

A TWebBrowser? 😶

My 10.4 informed me on the start/welcome page as soon as the update was available. Also, I think the primary place to look for things should be the https://my.embarcadero.com/

I'm looking forward to trying it out again in the near future. Binary compatibility with Delphi is still something no other product offers.

As far as I understand WinUI 3, it will be a UI library, independent of the application mode (Win32 or UWP). The RAD Studio November 2020 Roadmap PM Commentary (embarcadero.com) states (emphasis by me) As far as I understand, this sounds especially like XAML Islands, and I suppose this is also what the component WinRT (winsoft.sk) does. Here is the description from Microsoft Source: WinUI (microsoft.github.io) I am really looking forward to this. One downside is that XAML Islands were introduced in Windows 1809, but only in beta. It is officially supported from 1903 on. We are deploying devices with the latest Windows LTSC branch, which is 1809. I have talked to Microsoft developers about this, and while it should work on 1809, there might be issues, and I should not expect workarounds or patches. Let's see how this goes...

Suggestion to move the following threads there Does C++ Builder have code completion? - Offtopic - Delphi-PRAXiS [en] What's the correct way to free an object in C++Builder? - GExperts - Delphi-PRAXiS [en] Update: C++Builder and Platforms Support - Cross-platform - Delphi-PRAXiS [en]

Very true. The same applies to Embarcadero. If 64 Bit or DPI scaling is so easy, then why does their own IDE not support it yet? Microsoft already uses, for example, WebView2 in Outlook and others, but I have yet to see other new controls in office products. To be fair, WinUI is still in preview.

You can make those buttons do what you want, which includes "Page up" or "page down". To be honest, I remember that being a bit tricky. I should be able to access that projects source in a few hours (in case no one else has a solution at hand).

I still don't quite understand why you're marking it so hard. You said your primary audience is using touch. Why don't you just place some big buttons right next to the DBGrid?

I also tried something like this in the past. We dropped it, because it was a bad idea after all, even for a kiosk application like ours. Yes, it takes time. Sometimes, even other 3rd party application would completely lock up. I would strongly recommend to drop this approach. It will take a bit of work to roll your own scrollbar (for a general TWinControl, and maybe a TDBGrid), but you will end up with something that fully suits your needs and can be customized to run differently in Touch and in Desktop mode.

UDP has a BroadCast(..) method https://stackoverflow.com/a/7424793/2298252

For your information: WebView2 is now out of preview: Announcing Microsoft Edge WebView2 General Availability - Microsoft Edge Blog (windows.com) Instead of using the runtime (or an installed beta version), it can now also leverage a new "fixed version" (previously called "bring-your-own") which is new and in preview.

I don't have the source at hand, but Embarcadero said that is is "too difficult" to fix, because the initialization of that variable takes place in another compiler code part that actually doesn't know how the variable is used. There is, however, absolutely no excuse that there is no compiler warning. Embarcadero itself stumbles upon these uninitialized return values. Here's an example: [RSP-18300] TJson.Format() outputs invalid JSON - Embarcadero Technologies

This might come across as ignorant and disdainful, but I never understood why one should pick self-created html renderers above a "true" webbrowser that certainly supports a wider range of HTML/CSS (and JavaScript)?

I don't quite understand where sqlite comes into play. What did you have in mind? I have been using the TWebBrowser to display rich help documents for a few years now, and it works very well. However, there was never a need to run a full server behind it, I am just displaying local files. This way, the content can easily be changed / updated by our service personal, or even the client himself (for example, when not happy with a translation).

Thank you. Crazy I just missed the right version. With 10.4.1 instead of 10.4 it would have worked. That's a shame, as I don't have enough hard disk space for yet another RAD Studio VM.

I can reproduce it, but I have no idea why this is the case. I suppose it has nothing to do with GIF files, the 2nd TWebBrowser just doesn't get repainted. If you resize your window you see how portions of the 2nd browser view will get repainted.