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Thanks for the reply. Looks like I need to restructure things a bit. My system processes multi-gigabyte data dumps searching for a small section of interest (a physics research thing). I have a nicely designed, fast and small buffering system for handling such large files without exhausting the reso...

A question about Unicode vs ANSI when creating a Firemonkey based app in C++ Builder XE7. I am learning to use the Firemonkey process and am confused about this issue. First a little background on what I will be doing in my project. I have ANSI text files (data dumps from a piece of equipment) and a...

Found the problem.

I previously switched from Master View to Windows Desktop View. Apparently no names can be changed, or action list items added while in the Windows View. Switching back to Master View allows editing the component names.

I am creating a form in XE7. I start simply selecting New->Multi Device Application (C++)->Blank Application. After I drag (or double click) a component, such as TActionList, it creates a component on the form called ActionList1. I select from the Object Inspector the Name field to rename it. When I...

For 30 years I programmed in assembler for most processors and in C since K&R Second Edition came out. When a great systems had a 32k eprom and 32k ram, but usually was just a couple KB each. My have times changed. Now I program single chip systems with better ram and rom built in than the original ...