The problem

Each time you upgrade to a new PHPEdit version or just install a brand new developping machine, you have to setup again the IDE windows visibility and positions.

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The problem

Each time you upgrade to a new BDS version or just install a brand new developping machine, you have to setup again the IDE windows visibility and positions.

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The problem

Using iTunes with a mp3 collection located in a shared network drive, so that anyone from anywhere can access them, does not seems to be a possibility that Apple’s developers considered.
In this scenario, iTunes need to be installed just on the machine that synchronize with the iPod, iPad or iPhone. 

But what happen when you replace or reinstall the computer with iTunes installed ? 

Of course the library data, the podcast subscription, and other stuffs are lost… if you do not copy the right files.

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The problem

In modern graphical user interfaces it’s a must to use picture with transparency, so that they can adapt to gradient used in form or tabs in the backgrounds.
Unfortunately Delphi’s TImage component (at least up to Delphi 2007) does not support png files so the only possibility seems to use gif transparency.
But as you probably knows gif format does not allow alpha channel transparency so the result does not look nice.

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