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I thought so too, but see the Remy's link above for: What structure packing do the Windows SDK header files expect? Expect as in it should be set to 8 byte packing BEFORE including the windows.h header. Unlike the vcl.h and presumably fmx.h headers which Remy mentioned above will changing the packing to 8 if it is something different.

Try moving it before the vcl.h include and see if that causes it.

That is the whole problem I am describing here. They do not. If you change the data alignment from its default of 8, then the structures defined in windows.h will not be correct for what the OS expects. Remy - I usually use #include <pshpack8.h>, but I thoght I'd try your #pragma pack(push,8) and #pragma pack(pop) like this: #pragma pack(push,8) #include <windows.h> #pragma pack(pop) The result is a warning from cppb10.3: [bcc32 Warning] program.cpp(34): W8083 Pragma pack pop with no matching pack push If I remark out the #include, then no warning. Does this mean that MS's header pops more than it pushes leaving my final pop to not have its matching push?

Oddly, they don't. If a project's alignment is changed from quad word (8) to something else, there will be issues including windows.h because its structures may not be 8 aligned as the OS expects them to be. I'm glad Embarcadero's copy does force 8 byte alignment, I would have thought that Microsoft's windows.h would have done the same thing, but it doesn't. I only ran into this with some legacy code that needs to be compiled with 1 byte alignment. I'll just be careful to wrap windows.h in a pack 8. Thanks everyone!

If I throw 3 buttons onto a form and set button 1's click to this, it seems the ProcessMessages doesn't fully update all the buttons status. I can run this in bcb6 which is very old, but it behaves as expected, all 3 buttons go to gray/disabled, 3s goes by, then they are become active again, then another 3s delay before the form is available for another click. In cppb10.3 however, something different happens. The first time it is run, the first pass leaves button1 in a non normal state, but not disabled. buttons2/3 unaffected. When it gets to the 2nd pass where it sets the buttons to true, now it updates button1 to visible, and it disables button2 (from the earlier set to false!) The second time it is run, the button1 goes disabled, but buttons 2/3 stay enabled, until the second pass where button1 goes enabled, but buttons 2/3 go disabled. I think ProcessMessages was supposed to process all messages, right? (and yes, the loop where I repeatedly call processmessages every 100ms, does update them more as expected, but not instantaneously) void __fastcall TForm1::Button1Click(TObject *Sender) { //int i1; Button1->Enabled=false; Button2->Enabled=false; Button3->Enabled=false; Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000); /* for (i1=0; i1<30; i1++) { Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000/30); }*/ Button1->Enabled=true; Button2->Enabled=true; Button3->Enabled=true; Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000); }

A colleague of mine suggested changing DoubleBuffered and this seems to change the behavior enough to fix it! edit: well, it fixes it in debug mode, but not always in release mode so it isn't a fix after all.

This really does have to do with the highlighting and styling of the button. If I make a loop that disables and enables a button when clicking it, sometimes it won't change states if I am still hovering over it with the mouse. Is there a way to disable the highlighting that happens when you simply hover over a button?

Fr0sT.Brutal that works - the optimal delay is above 300ms: #define DELAY 325 Label1->Caption="off"; Button1->Enabled=false; Button2->Enabled=false; Button3->Enabled=false; Sleep(DELAY); Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000); Label1->Caption="on"; Button1->Enabled=true; Button2->Enabled=true; Button3->Enabled=true; Sleep(DELAY); Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000); Label1->Caption="";

DelphiUdIT - I tried the below (with and without the processmessages calls) and it still has the issue Button1->Enabled=false; Button1->Update(); Button2->Enabled=false; Button2->Update(); Button3->Enabled=false; Button3->Update(); // Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000); Button1->Enabled=true; Button1->Update(); Button2->Enabled=true; Button2->Update(); Button3->Enabled=true; Button3->Update(); // Application->ProcessMessages(); Sleep(3000);

The Sleep(x) is just a replacement for some other process that will keep execution in a method. The workflow is something like this: User clicks a button. I want to disable all buttons while this process runs so they are unable to click any of them, so I change them to disabled. Then I want to make sure that the screen is updated before I call whatever it is that may take seconds to run. Previously I could just set them to enabled=false and call ProcessMessages() once and it would update properly. I realize that putting the "seconds to run" is more ideal in a thread, but that adds creating and managing a thread which I don't want to have to do for every process that takes a few seconds. Essentially I am looking for a function that will make sure the UI is fully updated before a period of time where it won't be updated. I tried using calling Repaint for all 3 buttons before a ProcessMessages, but it didn't work. Whatever is different between versions, perhaps changing a property from true to false takes a number of things to occur in sequence that rely on each other?

Thanks Remy; sometimes I have a synchronous process and I want to make sure some VCL elements are updated beforehand. This always worked fine in bcb6. What could cause the Enabled change to _not_ create an immediate pending message?

I have them set to (left, top, width, height) 45, 80, 500, 320 in the form designer. I also have borderstyle=none, position=designed, but at runtime if I evaluate them they are 45, 80, 516, 358 so the width and height were altered by something. I remember a thing called scale for VCL, but I don't see it present in the FMX form. Any ideas why the width/height changed? Can I prevent it without forcing the width/height in the form constructor (which does work)?

This is a very strange issue so I thought I'd see if anyone here has experienced anything similar: I have had a release of software at multiple locations, multiple systems, and never saw the error before 6/8 at any site including the site now having the problem (it was running fine there for months). 2023-06-08 02:02:16.879 ERROR: Unsupported media file myvideo.wmv (e020212) (ignore the e020212, this is my error code to locate where the error is) Then on 6/8 and after, at only one specific location, all of the computers at this location, are giving this error only when they restart their software at 2am. It will fail with the above exception. If you then restart it manually later on, it will load fine, only to repeat the same problem the next day.= at 2am. //prompt animation try { FScalePrompt->MediaPlayer1->FileName="c:\\programdata\\myprog\\myvideo.wmv"; } catch(Exception &exception) { swprintf(ws1, L"ERROR: %ls (e020212)", exception.Message.c_str()); DialogMessageBox(ws1); goto fail1; } Any ideas on why this exception would be thrown only at 2am when the software restarts itself and then not at other times of the day? The software is launched by another process and it is closing itself down fine according to the log: 2023-06-08 02:01:46.942 Exiting 2023-06-08 02:02:13.473 Starting 2023-06-08 02:02:16.879 ERROR: Unsupported media file scaleitem.wmv (e020212)

If I create a new DLL, it prompts me with a dialog that allows me to set these things: Can you change these settings/target framework on an existing project? If so, where?

That is what I wondered; thanks for posting - I too use Beyond Compare, it is great!

So as a test I tried to set a TEdit to a UTF-8 sequence and it ended up as a series of characters and not the smile face I was testing. If I convert it first to a wide string and then assign the wide string it works: MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, "\xf0\x9f\x98\x82", -1, ws1, 1024); Is there a way to make it recognizing a narrow string assignment as UTF-8 - some sort of code page setting in the application maybe? or will it not do that?

Thank you; I'll check it out!

Thanks for the advice. On Friday I discovered an unexpected thing with sprintf/swprintf that string conversion from narrow to wide and vice versa uses a buffer that is limited to 512 bytes. I traced this down to the source code (in vprinter.c) to see that that is what it is doing. I typically think of sprintf/swprintf as commands as being designed to emit data directly as to not be limited by a buffer size, but clearly that isn't the case. Trying to convert a larger string will corrupt a program from a buffer overrun. Why they didn't just code it to do a simple bufferless conversion in place does not make sense to me, especially since they aren't really properly converting between UTF-8 and UTF-16 anyway, but it is what it is. I found the WIN32 API functions MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte, but at the same time I've been thinking about how I can better handle string conversion and variable width strings in general to support UTF-8/UTF-16 better.

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I suppose anywhere; I just wondered if you could assign a char* string that is UTF-8 and have it recognize it that way.Insert other media

I've been using: unsigned char data[]={ 255,216,255,225,7,132,69,120,105,102,0,0,77,77,0,42,0,0,0,8,0,12,1,0,0,3,0,0,0,1,1,144,0,0,1,1,0,3,0,0,0,1,1,11,0,0,1,2,0,3,0,0,0,3,0,0,0,158,1,6,0,3,0,0,0,1,0,2,0,0,1,18,0,3,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,1,21,0,3,0,0,0,1,0,3,0,0,1,26,0,5,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,164,1,27, 0,5,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,172,1,40,0,3,0,0,0,1,0,2,0,0,1,49,0,2,0,0,0,31,0,0,0,180,1,50,0,2,0,0,0,20,0,0,0,211,135,105,0,4,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,232,0,0,1,32,0,8,0,8,0,8,0,10,252,128,0,0,39,16,0,10,252,128,0,0,39,16,65,100,111,98,101,32,80,104,111,116,111,115,104, ... }; But it is a large amount of data and I wonder if there is a better way?

Thanks everyone; I'll give the RCDATA thing a try and see how well it works for me.

I am trying to get the programdata folder. I've been using: cppbuilder 10.3.3 LPITEMIDLIST pidl SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(NULL, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, &pidl) SHGetPathFromIDListW(pidl, APath) This works fine in a VCL application, but a FireMonkey application, none of it is recognized. I tried to include <shlobj_core.h>, but this gives 1500+ warnings about the below and then fails. [bcc32 Warning] shobjidl_core.h(26477): W8026 Functions with exception specifications are not expanded inline Full parser context mycode.cpp(33): #include c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\studio\20.0\include\windows\sdk\shlobj_core.h shlobj_core.h(86): #include c:\program files (x86)\embarcadero\studio\20.0\include\windows\sdk\shobjidl_core.h shobjidl_core.h(26477): decision to instantiate: ACTIVATEOPTIONS |(ACTIVATEOPTIONS,ACTIVATEOPTIONS) throw() --- Resetting parser context for instantiation... I was using this function because this code has to run on some older compilers, but if I can't get it to work I can use something else.

Thank you - I disabled the warnings and that did solve the problem: #pragma warn -8026 #pragma warn -8027 #include <shlobj_core.h> #pragma warn .8027 #pragma warn .8026 I like that better than my other approach.

I found this page: https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Alexandria/en/Standard_RTL_Path_Functions_across_the_Supported_Target_Platforms And then found this: UnicodeString us; us=System::Ioutils::TPath::GetPublicPath();