Delphi 10.4 Sydney is a specific version of Delphi released in May 2020.
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What is "Show image on tabs"?
I am in a spree to configure my IDE. Many things are explained in the good-old-Borland-help style.
For example under "Editor->Display" one can find a new feature called "Show image on tabs". And the Help page for it:
"Displays an icon on each tab…

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Can I show SVG images on a VCL application?
I know that Delphi 10.4 can show SVG images on Firemonkey apps, but can it do the same for VCL apps ?
Thank you.

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Revisited: TClientDataset "Missing data provider or data packet"
With a dynamically created TFDQuery,TClientDataSet, and TDataSetProvider I bump into the "Missing data provider or data packet" with this code:
procedure ResetSavedPasswords(ADataModuleDataBaseAdmin : TDataModuleDataBaseAdmin);
var
lQuery :…

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Dxgettext (gnugettext) doesn't extract correctly strings with accents on UTF-8 units
I'm using dxgettext to translate a Delphi 10.4 project, but having defined the IDE to save to UTF files by default, dxgettext only extracts strings correctly from the .dfm files, from the .pas files it reads incorrectly the accents (it reads them as…

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Connecting to a remote instance of Interbase on Android using IBLite not working
In Delphi 10.4.1 I'm trying to build an Android application that connects to an instance of Interbase running on my laptop (which I can connect to remotely from my desktop). I get the exception:
Project Project6.apk raised exception class…

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How to control the number of Units showing in central pane?
Recently moved to Delphi 10.4 and I get far too many Units showing in the central pane of the IDE. (It didn't happen with XE.)
My main project group has up to 15 programs in it.
I can remove each unit manually from view in the central pane, but if…

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Delphi styled speedbuttons lose transparency on MacOS
Drop a speedbutton on a form. Set the stylelookup to composetoolbutton.
The button renders correctly on Windows, but transparency is missing on MacOS.
Any way to work around that?

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Cannot find a Repository Form
I've added a form to the Repository. (Created a blank form with a button, saved it, right-click Add to Repository). But I cannot get to it. File | New | Other doesn't offer it.
My default folders has
but the new form is saved here in a roaming…

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RESTRequest.Execute error - No mapping for the Unicode character exists in the target multi-byte code page
I'm using Delphi 10.4 (with patches 1, 2 and 3) on Windows 10 64bit to build a VCL Web Client application.
I have an API running on RAD Server, and I can get information from it using the below VCL Webclient application with no trouble. However,…

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SQL Server query using an scalar function is very slow on FireDAC and only on FireDAC
I have an SQL Server query that runs in milliseconds on the SQL Server Management Studio or on a TADOQuery, but takes 17 seconds to run on a TFDQuery.
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ COMMITTED
if OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#DADES') is not null DROP…

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Change username in Delphi RAD Server built-in Users Endpoint
Im' using Delphi RAD Server 10.4 with patches 1,2 and 3 and I created endpoints to manage RAD users using authentication and security components TBackEndAuth and TBackendUser components.
I could SignUp a new user and LogIn sucessfully using these…

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FireDAC truncates string literals containing ! characters (Delphi 10.4 + SQL Server 2017)
There is some kind of pre-processment of the SQL text on FireDAC queries that truncates their string literals containing ! characters.
It's very easy to replicate:
Place a TFDConnection, a TFDQuery connected to the connection, a TDatasource…

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I get an error 403 with my Delphi WebDAV program nor CarotDAV client works fine
I have a IIS and WebDAV under windows 10. Now I tried Delphi 10.4 Webdav component from /n Software which works fine for retrieving a particular file via WebDAV in SSL mode (https). But when I want to try to get the Directory listing I get an HTTP…

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How to access an image inside a DLL from inside the DLL?
In Delphi 10.4, in a COM Server DLL ShellExtension project, I have added a DataModule to the project and placed a TImageList on the DataModule. The ImageList contains several images added at design-time. Now, from the main unit of the DLL project, I…

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Delphi 10.4 fails to show decimal(5,2) BCD fields on DBGrids if there also is a datetime field
When I have a ClientDataset with datetime fields and decimal(5,2) fields, Delphi 10.4 can't show them on a TDBGrid, it raises a convert exception.
I have prepared an small test project to show this error (my real data comes from SQL Server, although…

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