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Hello 🙂 At the beginning: thanks to all of you for many very informative discussions on this forum. When working in D7 in most cases Ctrl+F1 was the right answer to most problems. But now I'm more and more frequently saved by the info provided by members of Delphi-PRAXiS 🙂 And now my actual pain: I'm using Delphi 11 CE ver 28.0. While working with quite simple code I have encountered two strange, fully reproducible problems. The description and related code are below. Additionally all the details and both problems are presented within a short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/147uSLerfnu-3DZME1jHQ8nsnlAdqtNRi (the code is compiled without optimization). Maybe someone wise can shed some light on the sources of those problems and how to get rid of them (excluding "Embarcadero" problem) ? All the best! --------- >>> The example task: The square matrix TConfusionMatrix = array[0..x,0..x] of Extended is created in two ways (please see the code below): - with primitive functions such as Cmtx33() or Cmtx22() which place the right values in the right cells of the matrix, or - by splitting string representation of the matrix (with function MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix). Example string representation of the 3x3 matrix is: '[0,1,2, 3,4,5, 6,7,8]' (rows concatenation, spaces and brackets do not matter). Created matrices should represent structure "array of rows" and oboth methods should fill the matrix in the same way. For example, if cmtx and cmtx2 are of TConfusionMatrix type then after calls: MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix('[43,0,1,0,45,0,2,0,44]', cmtx, class_cnt); cmtx2:=Cmtx33(43,0,1,0,45,0,2,0,44); variables cmtx and cmtx2 should include the same values in the same elements of matrices (among those which were modified by both functions). Additionally class_cnt will include the size of the row/column of the matrix (in this example class_cnt will be equal 3). It is assumed that strings representing the matrix will always have correct structure and that will include the right number of elements to create a square matrix (so we do not need to think about such things here). >>> Encountered problems: 1.) The first problem ("the inspection problem"): Depending on the order of calls to MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix() and Cmtx33() the results of the former function differ. Sometimes after the call of MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix() the created matrix is displayed in inspection window as it would be (improperly) transposed. But after next call of Cmtx33() the matrix set by MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix() starts to look properly. Further comparison of matrices created with both functions indicate that they are equal and related code execution reacts accordingly. 2.) The second problem ("the wtf problem"): But sometimes - for exactly the same data - the matrix being the result of MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix() permanently stays improperly transposed and the matrices created with both methods are recognised as different. Then this breaks the logic of the code. I'm blind or something but I can't see any obvious reason for such behaviour. Results from primitive functions Cmtx33(), Cmtx22() are always correct and presented properly. ---------- >>> The code: const MAX_CLASSES = 50; type TConfusionMatrix = array[0..MAX_CLASSES,0..MAX_CLASSES] of Extended; //transforms square matrix in the form of string to a table of rows; //cmtx_str = '[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8]' => [[0,1,2][3,4,5][6,7,8]] //(row and column of index=0 are left for other purposes) function MtxStr2ConfusionMatrix(cmtx_str :String; var cmtx :TConfusionMatrix; var class_cnt :Word) :Boolean; var i,j :Word; splittedString : TStringDynArray; res :Boolean; begin res:=True; try RemoveChar(cmtx_str,' '); RemoveChar(cmtx_str,'['); RemoveChar(cmtx_str,']'); class_cnt:=0; splittedString:=SplitString(cmtx_str, ','); if Length(splittedString)<4 then res:=False else begin if Frac(Sqrt(Length(splittedString)))<0.01 then class_cnt:=Round(Sqrt(Length(splittedString))) else res:=False; end; if class_cnt>=2 then begin EraseConfusionMatrix(cmtx,class_cnt,MAX_CLASSES,0); for i:=1 to class_cnt do for j:=1 to class_cnt do cmtx[i,j]:= StrToFloat(splittedString[i+(j-1)*class_cnt - 1]); end; except res:=False; end; result:=res; end; function CompareConfusionMatrices(c1,c2 :TConfusionMatrix; class_cnt :Word) :Boolean; var i,j :Integer; ok :Boolean; begin ok:=True; for i:=1 to class_cnt do for j:=1 to class_cnt do if c1[i,j]<>c2[i,j] then begin ok:=False; break; end; result:=ok; end; function Cmtx33(c11,c12,c13,c21,c22,c23,c31,c32,c33 :LongInt) :TConfusionMatrix; begin cmtx[1,1]:=c11; cmtx[1,2]:=c12; cmtx[1,3]:=c13; cmtx[2,1]:=c21; cmtx[2,2]:=c22; cmtx[2,3]:=c23; cmtx[3,1]:=c31; cmtx[3,2]:=c32; cmtx[3,3]:=c33; result:=cmtx; end; function Cmtx22(c11,c12,c21,c22 :LongInt) :TConfusionMatrix; begin cmtx[1,1]:=c11; cmtx[1,2]:=c12; cmtx[2,1]:=c21; cmtx[2,2]:=c22; result:=cmtx; end; procedure RemoveChar(var s :String; ch :Char); var d :String; i,ls :LongInt; begin d:=''; ls:=Length(s); i:=1; for i:=1 to ls do if s[i]<>ch then d:=d+s[i]; s:=d; end; procedure EraseConfusionMatrix(var cmtx :TConfusionMatrix; num_classes, max_classes :Word; value :Integer); var i,j :Word; begin if num_classes<=max_classes then begin for i:=0 to num_classes do for j:=0 to num_classes do cmtx[i,j]:=value; end else ShowMessage('Confusion Matrix can not be greater than '+IntToStr(max_classes)+'x'+IntToStr(max_classes)); end; ===EOT===

Hello, Under Windows 11, Delphi (Seattle, Rio, ...) Each "Step over" of a 32 bit app. (VCL and/or console) triggers a full redraw of the "Local variables" on the IDE. And of course, the more the list is important the more the repaint is "painful"... Any ideas how to avoid this ? thanks for you help

Hi I noticed that the IDE (suddemnly) does not save the current Unit to the *.~ when I edit and save a Unit. What should I do to restore this feature? Thanks

Hi all. For someone could be a silly question but important for me. Today I've purchased Athens, and usually I work with Sydney. I have a lot of very big projects made with Sydney and moving them to Athens will be a long path ( a lot of 3rd parties libraries to install). Can I install Athens on the same PC where Sydney works ? If YES, are there some types of attention to be kept? At the moment I've also Code Gear RAD Studio 2007 for very old projects not ported to Sydney which live without problems with Sydney.

I usually work in low light and it gets a little difficult sometimes to see certain characters when using the dark theme for the IDE. (Some of the colored fonts like blue/red/green get fuzzy looking under my laptop's 1366x768 screesize) I thought it would be a quick and simple method of Ctrl+Wheel-up/down, but that did not work. Is there a quick shortcut to enlarge/decrease the font at will? TIA.

I am using Delphi 11.3 I type a single quote in my IDE editing a pascal unit, and the quote does not appear until I press the space character. What is happening? More than this if I press a capital C after the single quote, I get a C with a tail underneath it. Very strange.

I moved from D10.4.2 (IIRC) to the D11.3 CE. I have already posted about issues with File Version, but here's something that may be correct or not. This is a DLL. When I view the Project pane in the IDE, it only shows the project, it does not show the related (or any other) *.pas files. There seems no way I can make it show them. For the record, the PAS file is uDbXConnect.pas: And further, in GIT version control, it only shows the *.dproj, I cannot, within the IDE at least, add any other files (just as I cannot in IDE>Project. Previously I was using subversion (yes, I know not as good, but at least it worked and was simple). I cannot get subversion to work with 11.3 - that's another issue. Here's what I see in GIT Commit, only the dproj file. Note I can view all of the non-versioned files, but I cannot seem to get them to add to the GIT version control/repository. Am I supposed to be doing things with GIT outside the IDE, that kinda makes no sense if we are assuming this is Version Control with IDE integration. As noted, with subversion previously, it was relatively easy, this just doesn't seem to work (as I expected it to). Does anyone have a handle on what I should do to set this up correctly or can point me to appropriate documentation? Thanks......

Hi. Delphi 11.3. Open an existing project, press DEL Key twice (to delete 2 letters) and the IDE goes fishing: keystrokes or mouse totally disabled. Need taskbar to end it. Anybody experienced this? Funny thing: I put IDE in the serach of this newsgroup and get zero results.

See [RSP-41949] LSP does not work when project includes modified file found in the search path - Embarcadero Technologies for details. Has anyone been bitten by this? Code Insight now works in my PyScripter project. I thought that cyclic unit dependencies may be the cause and spent quite a bit of time reducing them. I guess, that this was time well spent, but it was not the source of the LSP failures.

Hello, everybuddy. Recently I made a plug-in for Delphi to use ChatGPT inside the IDE. The main service is ChatGPT but it's actually multi-AI support, you can get responses from three different sources, compare and decide. I hope this can be helpful and accelerate your work. Repository: https://github.com/AliDehbansiahkarbon/ChatGPTWizard Key features: - Free text question form. - Dockable question form. - Inline questions(in the editor). - Context menu options to help you to find bugs, write tests, optimize code, add comments, etc... - Class view. - Predefined Questions for class view. - History to save your tokens on OpenAI ! - Fuzzy string match searches in the history. - Animated letters(Like the website). - Proxy server options. - Supports Writesonic AI (https://writesonic.com) - Support YouChat (https://you.com) Short Video 1: Short Video 2 - Inline Questions: Full Video (ver. 2.0):

When I click Tools->Options->Language->Delphi->Library -> [...] button, the whole system hangs. Does not matter on which [...] button I click. I need to stop Delphi every time with task manager. I am using windows 11 and Delphi 1.2.

I've known of CodeSite for years, but I'm afraid not about CodeSite. And now that I know more, I could really put its logging to use rather than my cobbled-together and code-modifying techniques. Except, the GetIt installer runs and installs CodeSite to the catalog repository just fine, but it doesn't add it to the IDE (11.3). I have also run the installer from the catalog repository -- it's just a Windows installer -- but that also yields no love. I'm guessing the package version, from September 2022, doesn't know about this version of the IDE. It's Windows 10, and I give the OS admin-level credentials in my install efforts. Is there anything to be done? Thanks in advance for hints.

Delphi was behaving fine in regards to startup until recently, when the IDE 'freezes' upon startup, after loading all design time packages. The splash screen shows the added component packages loading, and then nothing. If I set BDS.exe to run as admin it opens as before. There must be(maybe?) a file somewhere that a security setting has changed (maybe I did without knowing in a previous IDE session). I have re-installed some of the components, with no change. I do not plan to re install Delphi - I will wait for 11.3... Any suggestions or feedback is appreciated.

Hi, An hour ago I've tried out CnPack's "Bug reporter" IDE enhancement. It did not go well, after I've clicked "send Email". (Lot's of AV errors, ca 100 / sec while tried to close Delphi 7.) Since than: If I click the green |> arrow or [F9] to start debugging >> it compiles the EXE fine, than starts the EXE normally! (without attaching the debugger process.) Tried to: - restart PC - disable some CnPack modules But nothing helps 😞 - Where is the Delphi "error LOG file"?

I'm using the IDE dark theme and when I press F1 for help my eyes hurt (really) from the glare of help white pages! I uninstalled help in the hope of IDE will use the online help at https://docwiki.embarcadero.com but that didn't work, (the funny thing here is that I had to uninstall the whole thing not just help, no option for help uninstall only ) checked command line params but nothing there. Anyone knows a way to do this? PS: In case you may think online docwiki pages are also white?, I use the Dark Reader browser extension: https://i.ibb.co/py2qyxB/dt.png

I have a Delphi 10.4.2 project that has issues when clicking the file [lighttheme.pas] in the Projects window on the right. It won't open the file. I loads information into the Object Inspector but the file doesn't create a tab at the top. This file does not an associated .DFM. Its a unit file that holds procedures. The only way i can get it to open where i can edit it is to close my project then choose File | Open...and open the file that way. I have also tried to remove it and re-add it to my project with no change. Something is stuck somewhere. Any ideas?

Hi, I was wondering if there's a feature (or plugin) that would allow me to right click a folder and add a new unit direct in that folder. For example: When I right-click "task.code" folder, I would like the context menu to display two new options "add new unit" and "add new existing unit". When selecting "add new unit", "Unit1.pas" would be created under "task.code" allowing me to renaming that unit directly and start working on it. Do you know if there's such a tool? I'm using D11.1 TIA, Clément

Hi all, I'm using Sydney 10.4.1 and I'm used to works with ProjectGroups formed by 8-12 projects. A project could have only WIN32 version and other have either WIN32 and WIN64 versions. A WIN32 build outputs an exe as <project_name>.32.exe. A WIN64 build outputs an exe as <project_name>.64.exe There is a way to say to IDE: Build all projects versions (Win32 or Win32/Win64 when projects have either) in a single click? At this moment I need to continue to switch manually the active Target Platform from WIN32 to WIN64 and it is a great waste of time. Thank you in advance for your replies.

Whenever a new Delphi version is out, there is this small tedious job I do of customizing the Toolbar. I add some speedbuttons (Exit, Close All, Compile project, Project Options and a few more), and I delete a few others that I don't use. (I never found a smart way to copy the settings from a previous Delphi version to a new version. The Migration Tool never works. This time I tried migrating from 10.4 to 10.5. Version 11 wasn't listed, so I guessed 10.5 actually stands for 11. Anyway. no luck there). So I added some and removed some. Then restarted Delphi. The result, in short: removal works, but adding does not. So removing for once is removing forever. Well, actually, adding speedbuttons to the toolbar works during a session. Restart and they are gone again. Anyone else seeing this? (shall i submit a bug report to QC?) Is there a solution or workaround?

I would like to put a hyperlink somewhere in my code, to be able to jump clicking on it, in another unit, at a specific point (anchor). Is it possible ?

Hi developers, I am moving a project from BDS2006 to Sydney. I have strange behavior when debugging with Sydney, the program slows down a lot, and becomes almost unusable. In BDS2006 there is no noticeable difference between running a program in debug or without debugging which helps a lot in the development. In Sydney, this is not the case, and to understand if some changes bring about performance improvements or not, all that remains is to run without debugging and disseminate the log code ... Frustrating. I am attaching a video that highlights how the behavior changes between the two ways of running a program. When running in Sydney the system becomes so slow that the thread sending data via TCP / IP to the connected device cannot keep up with the data request. Everything is slowed down and jerky. Do you have any idea what might go wrong? PS: During the installation of the IDE I also installed the Parnassus Debugger, doesn't this considerably increase the load in the execution of programs in Debug? I obviously use a lot of threads but not a lot to bring the process to its knees. As you can see, when it is not debugged, the CPU used by the program aligns itself on 1-2%. Thanks in advance for the suggestions. https://youtu.be/eLTVhPkn0NA

I'm just downloaded and installed "RAD Studio, Delphi, C++Builder 10.4 ISO" And I can see that I can download the next patches: RAD Studio 10.4 Patch 1 10.4 Patch 2 (Professional) RAD Studio 10.4 Patch 3 The only thing I understand is that I need the first installed to install de second and so on. My first question is: The version I've just installed doesn't have these patches included? My next question is: If not, Where are the instructions to install these patches? I downloaded them and I have three ZIP files. The first has a Patch1.txt with a list of file involved but without any instructions. The second ZIP contains another ZIP, an EXE and a BAT file. What's the correct form of installing it? The third is like the second. ------------------------------------------------------------ I'm treating to get info about this from the embarcadero webs, but seem that today all the services of embarcadero has problems.

I am trying to get a reusable TFrame working to use in a number of places in our app to let the users edit and format text in a TJvRichEdit. It consists of a TJvRichEdit and a TJvSpeedBar. The JEDI example code works, and I have copied and pasted the relevant form into the test project where I am developing this frame. But there is a problem in the frame: the colour buttons (Color and Background), which drop down lists of colours in the sample code and change the colour of the text, don't display correctly in the frame. They appear full length but empty, although selecting an item does change the colour of the text. In contrast the Underline button has a drop down list that looks and works fine in my code. The code is essntially the same. I'm initializing the menus in the form's OnShow event, whereas the JEDI sample does it in the form's OnCreaate. There's some strange behaviour in Delphi. If I bring up the Speedbar Designer and select the Color buttons, the list that appears in the Events tab is slightly different between the sample form and my frame, even though they should be the same. In the one that works there is a line for DropDownMenu, with the red font for properties that show up on the events tab. That line is absent from the correpsonding place in my frame. That line does show up for the buttons where the DropDownMenu is nil though. Curious. I'm using Delphi 10.1 Berlin and JCL version 3.50. JvRichEditToolBar.7z

Hi, I am looking for an easy option to set "version information" of multiple projects with in a project group at the same time. Is there any option already available wit the Delphi IDE? Going through each and every project and updating the version information for a particular build configuration is error prone and cumbersome. I have almost 75 projects in a project group. Don't want to click through each and every project and enter the version information for every release. Any best practices or suggestions to handle this situation? I use configuration manager to select a configuration to build all the projects in my development machine. (For release build I use a build server and MSBUILD) Kind regards, Soji.

I recently installed the C++ Builder 10.3 community edition on my desktop. Just as a test I decided to compile a Blank Form . It displays when you press the Run icon in the IDE. However, if I drop any control on this form, the form does not display after the Run icon is pressed. I have been using the C++ Builder for some time but never experienced anything like this. Any suggestions on resolving this would be appreciated.