Questions tagged [delphi-11-alexandria]
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Use TActions without their OnExecute event
I would like to use TActions to centralize the main choices of an application, but instead of defining individual OnExecute events to run each option, I was thinking of using a class factory on the general TActionList.OnExecute, so that general…

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Delphi - Force Component to lay over other Components
I have a Firemonkey Form.
On this Form there is a TGridPanelLayout. On that layout with multiple Rows and only one Column. There are several TEdit Controls in that TGridPanelLayout.
Into the top TEdit Control I added a dropdown Button and a…

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How to prevent generation of xml 'nil' as is 'xsi:nil="true"' elements in a soap webservice Delphi client?
Since Delphi Alexandria 11.2, I have a problem with my Delphi SOAP clients.
If, in my client side application, my field obj.entryDate is set to nil (because there is no such date), then the Delphi SOAP libraries create the following in the…

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Delphi FireDac Firebird 4.0 Connection Pooling
I'm testing Firedac (Delphi 11 Update1) and Firebird 4.0 (Latest) for a rest API server project.
I found the connection pooling technic in Firebird documentation as a possibility and also in FireDac documentation.
In my test application, I can…

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Running application as non-administrative user while elevated
How (if possible) do you - when you're running as elevated user - start a program with non-administrative rights, when you don't have logon credentials.
Scenario: A program running non-elevated executes a child process with elevated status (via…

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Handling DLL causing Access Violation 0x06efff08 when trying to use function
I'm getting an access violation when I try to link to a function within a DLL file. DLL was made in Delphi 6 and we are upgrading to Delphi 11 (wild jump I know). So the code once upon a time worked and somewhere in the many changes to Delphi has…

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Is there a way to set the IDE to default to the Windows 64-bit platform for newly created project?
In Embarcadero Delphi 11, when creating a new VCL project, the Target Platform is by default set to Windows 32-bit. For ease of access, I would like to be able to make new projects default to Windows 64-bit.
With most installations of Windows being…

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How to configure RAD Server to send compressed responses?
I'm building a prototype for a new C/S app using RAD Server.
I want to get compressed some large requests to speed up their transmission, so I send them with Accept-Encoding to gzip on their Header, as explained here for generic REST…

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Issue closing minimised form from Windows taskbar with message dialog
The demo application below asks the user if they really want to close when they try to close the form.
This works fine when the form is not minimised. However, if they try to close the application from the Taskbar when the form is minimised, the app…

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CreateWindowEx() Returns 0
I know that there are many posts regarding my issue, I also read this post
Delphi 11.2: CreateWindowEx fails thread on x64
but I am not able to understand what exactly I should do to overcome this problem. I am working on Cromis.DirectoryMonitoring…

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Compile-Time detection of >= Alexandria 11.3
How do you (compile-time) detect the difference between Alexandria 11.2 and 11.3 (or, rather, how do you detect you are at 11.3 or later?)
Both have CompilerVersion and RTLVersion value at 35.

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TBalloonHint alignment in Delphi 11.2
In my app, I use the TBalloonhint component because it is better than the component's hint presenter, but I have a little problem.
When the control is close to the right border of the screen, the entire tooltip is not visible (unless the screen…

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How can I access CoreWebView2CookieManager from the TEdgeBrowser/WebView2 in Delphi?
I use Microsoft's WebView2 via a TEdgeBrowser in Delphi (currently 11.2, soon probably 11.3).
I want to delete a specific cookie.
This is possible, in principle, with the DeleteCookie method of CoreWebView2CookieManager, as explained for example…

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Delphi 11.3 Professional new install: no Subversion integration
This morning I installed Rad Studio 11.3 Professional. Opening a project, I found Subversion integration nonfunctional, despite the path to the client (TortoiseSVN) being set.
Copying the subversion folder from an 11.0 installation into the 11.3…

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Errors trying to install JCL in Delphi Alexandria
I am attempting to install the JCL library into Delphi RAD Studio 11. Git placed the jcl tree in my Users directory (say C:\Users\xxx); I followed instructions and made sure I updated the modules, etc.
I then attempted to execute the install.bat…

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