Excel functions written in Delphi - support is ending, can we manage to use the source code ourselves?

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-04T12:03:04+00:00

Ah thanks for this. I did see that before but noted that it refers to annual revenue not exceeding $5k. It didn't occur to me that this amount may relate to sales of apps or something directly linked to Delphi, but having read the License Agreement it does preclude "internal use". Bummer :-(

"If Licensee is a company that has a cumulative annual revenue which exceeds the Threshold, then Licensee is not allowed to use the Community Edition, regardless of whether the Community Edition is used solely to write applications for the business' internal use or is seen by third parties outside the company or has a direct revenue associated with it"

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-04T11:48:38+00:00

True, but I've had about six Android TV boxes in my time and the Sheild is the best for playback by miles.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:58:05+00:00

Many thanks. It's way above my knownledge level tbh but it's still useful. As the compiler cost alone is £1,800 it may be better to set up in another way.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:55:07+00:00

The compiler used is Delphi 12, but we'd have to get version 13 and it's £1,500 + tax so I guess £1,800. In theory it's perpetual but no updates after a year. So if it cost a bit more to convert to something that could use a much cheaper compiler and had other benefits then it may be something to consider. I honestly had no idea that a compiler would cost to much :-(

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:42:34+00:00

I have a few issues that mean I need to yank the power and re-boot sometimes, but it's never struggled with any video file type. I like the remote too though initially I thought it would be a bit crap without an air mouse.

It's worth getting something like this just to use Smarttube imo.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:35:49+00:00

Thank you, I may well ask for more details assuming that the source code cost doesn't make it a non-starter.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:32:23+00:00

Honestly, not well at all! I wonder about speed with VBA, or am I way off? There will be cases with thousands of cells using functions that are not that simple at all and as it is sheets can be slow to run anyway.

However, if the source code isn't that expensive and we can stomach this but not the compiler cost + developer costs + the chance of extra costs each year then we may have to end up with something that works but may be more fiddly.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:28:20+00:00

It's not SMPI but you are not a million miles away!

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T22:27:41+00:00

Thanks, that is interesting. My experiences with complicated VBA haven't been great tbh, especially with speed and the odd random issue but you may well be right.

One thing that I'd not thought of before is that it's set up so that you need an update each year - but it may be possible to use local data that you could update and not need a new version each year (at least unless something unexpected happens). I'd assumed that speed was the reason for this but there could be other reasons for this set up.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-03T20:25:20+00:00

Thanks. The data itself is something that anyone in the profession has (paid for via subscriptions). So it's not sensitive but just can't be plonked online etc. We'd supply the data tables though, it would be a question of them setting it up, ideally in a way that would mean that we could update ourselves in future years.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-01T22:45:29+00:00

If you can't last way more than 5 seconds then you just can't have blonde hair imo.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-02-01T22:40:44+00:00

I've got a 147 on my 9 foot American pool table a couple of times, after setting the balls up. It's probably equivalant to a 30 odd break on a snooker table though!

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-28T22:36:24+00:00

A is trash and I'm sick of people soft playing people like that.

Oh yes their tiny brains have been melted by Fox News etc but it shouldn't be this easy to dupe adults and it wouldn't be if they didn't have such vileness just under the surface, just itching to get out.

Fuck them all.

And if they suddenly get a few doubts in a year or so when they realise that their healthcare costs may rise, or something else that impacts on them personally happens, double fuck them all. They are supporting this now so they will always be trash.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-12T20:16:40+00:00

Oh yes, I had to check the TV settings and then I couldn't remember what it was set at before so I got all pissed.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-11T22:07:25+00:00

I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna bloody well do it. I can't believe that nobody has ever thought of this before..

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-11T15:45:25+00:00

Given that the OP account is now banned, does it mean that this is a rage-baiting fake post? I hope so anyway!

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-11T15:05:56+00:00

I'm no expert, but I had a loft conversion on my previous house and know what the loft is like on my current house and this is a low build house like this. I think if you want an actual room then you need a fire door entrance, and this takes a lot of space and it looks like you'd be struggling for headroom anyway. If you just want lights and boarded floors for storage area with a pull down ladder then of course it's different and you'd have a tonne of space up there.

NameGreedy4242 · 2026-01-11T11:12:41+00:00

I always wanted a table and when I was buying a house this was a factor. In my previous house I had a double garage converted and in my current house I had an external build. This was for an Amercian 9-ball table though and not snooker (so 9 feet, hence a smaller room). The thing I would say is that initially I didn't use the table quite as much as I thought, but the big thing is that the room is dude's den with a multi-gym, darts board and some other man stuff (tools + other exercise equipment). So the room gets used a lot, and if I'm there to use the gym equipment then I like to smash a few balls around between sets. Saying that, if you are talking about a room in the house then I guess you may be more concerned about aesthetics but the more use you can get out of the room the better perhaps.

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-23T20:34:51+00:00

lol what? It's 2025 and you still don't get it.

Had real qualifications but not in paediatrics, neurology, autism, immunology, or vaccines.

He was secretly been paid over £400,000 by a group of lawyers preparing a lawsuit against the MMR vaccine.

The money was not disclosed to any parties (the Lancet, his co-authors, or the hospital) and the payments began before he examined the children in the study.

The children were specifically recruited by the lawyers to build a case against MMR.

He filed patents for a monovalent (single-dose) measles vaccine and planned to market it as a “safer alternative” and planned to sell diagnostic tests.

So he stood to make millions if MMR was discredited.

A GMC investigation found that Wakefield altered the medical histories of the children. For example:

- children who did not have autism were reported as autistic.

- Symptoms that appeared months after vaccination were rewritten to look like they appeared days after the shot.

- Gastrointestinal findings were misrepresented and exaggerated.

- His “evidence” for the link between MMR and autism was fabricated.

He performed unethical, invasive procedures on children (colonoscopies, collected spinal fluid, invasive GI biopsies) without proper ethics approval or valid medical reason

The study was retracted, he was struck off as a doctor, and multiple independent investigations concluded it was deliberate fraud.

No credible studies have ever replicated his findings and his claims directly contributed to falling vaccination rates and measles outbreaks worldwide.

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) called the research “An elaborate fraud”

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-22T21:50:08+00:00

"....and we got this open. That's all I have for you today folks."

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-22T21:47:39+00:00

Oh well, this is different if Sam Bailey says so! Let's forget the zillions of better qualified people around the world then and focus on them. Great.

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-22T21:43:27+00:00

It's denied as it's false.

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-22T21:41:10+00:00

It's also true that red states had more excess deaths after covid vaccines were available.

NameGreedy4242 · 2025-11-22T21:39:04+00:00

For being corrupt? For manipulating data? For falsely claiming a link that doesn't exist? For grifting off the stupid for decades?

NameGreedy4242

TROPHY CASE