Location changer to fake GPS or mock in iOS through 3uTools

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The program 3uTools

3uTools Start screen.
We need the Virtual Location menu item below.

3uTools Toolbox

There is Virtual Location menu item in Toolbox too.

Virtual Location window in 3uTools

Modify Immediately or
Cyclic Modification check and
Start Modification requires enabling on the device

Application gives 3 ways to modify the device position:
Enter the longitude and latitude
Enter the address on the Search Location bar
Drag and Click the address on the map using the mouse

3uTools GPS Mock Enable Developer Mode

Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode

Phone Location modified successully

For 30 seconds.

A 30-second timeout when mocking a GPS location on iOS is caused by iOS background suspension. Since iOS tightly restricts third-party apps and external tools from overriding system-level CoreLocation data, simulations often fail or snap back once a brief execution or connection window expires.
Varun Kukade

Organic Maps Check

Check GPS mock in maps, for example, in Organic Maps

Delphi: OldCreateOrder property in a form

OldCreateOrder property was absent in Delphi 3, but present in Delphi 5.
OldCreateOrder property was removed in Delphi 11.
For instance, default for the property OldCreateOrder is False in Delphi 11 Alexandria.
OldCreateOrder controls when the OnCreate and OnDestroy events are called.
With OldCreateOrder = True the OnCreate is called inside TCustomForm.Create after the DFM is loaded in a TCustomForm descendant/
With False the OnCreate is called after all inherited constructors are finished, i.e. in TCustomForm.AfterConstruction.
With OldCreateOrder = True, the FormDestroy is called inside the inherited call of Destroy.
With OldCreateOrder = False it is called before execution of any destructor.

Undeclared identifier error: SListIndexError

The SListIndexError is a constant string declared in Delphi 4 in the unit Consts.
SListIndexError since Delphi 6 is in the unit RTLConsts.
The first and the most competent method is to resort to conditional compilation directives:
{$IF CompilerVersion >= 14.0} // Delphi 6 and higher RTLConsts {$ELSE} Consts {$IFEND}
The second remedy:
The construction Error(SListIndexError, Index) may be replaced by Error('List Index out of bounds (%d)', Index)

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The ANSI function to Ansi-fy

This table is not a divine revelation, but my personal reference book.

Windows support non-Unicode function like SomeFunctionExA and SomeFunctionExW for Unicode.
When a call is to non-Unicode function, Windows will pass the call to Unicode, process and then give the result as ANSI, where makes it slower and demands processing overload.

	Ansi-fy	Wide Char, Unicode	Units
const C = '...';	const C: AnsiString = '...';
CompareText	AnsiCompareText	CompareText	SysUtils; AnsiStrings. Case insensitive, ignoring accents characters.
CompareStr	AnsiCompareStr	CompareStr	SysUtils; AnsiStrings
FindWindow	FindWindowA	FindWindowW (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 the same as FindWindowW)
GetDiskFreeSpace	GetDiskFreeSpaceA	GetDiskFreeSpace (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 calls GetDiskFreeSpaceW)	Windows
GetTempPath	GetTempPathA	GetTempPath (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 calls GetTempPathW)	Windows
LowerCase	AnsiLowerCase	LowerCase	SysUtils or AnsiStrings (Delphi 2009+)
SameText	AnsiSameText	SameText calls AnsiCompareText. Case insensitive
ShellExecute	ShellExecuteA	ShellExecuteW (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 the same as ShellExecute)	ShellApi
ShellExecute	ShellExecuteA	ShellExecuteW (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 the same as ShellExecute)	ShellApi
ShellExecuteInfo	ShellExecuteInfoA	ShellExecuteInfoW (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 the same as ShellExecuteInfo)
SHGetPathFromIDList	SHGetPathFromIDListA	SHGetPathFromIDList (in Delphi Versions >= 2009 calls SHGetPathFromIDListW)	ShlObj
StrAlloc	AnsiStrAlloc	in Delphi Versions >= 2009 StrAlloc calls WideStrAlloc	SysUtils
UpperCase	AnsiUpperCase	UpperCase	SysUtils or AnsiStrings (Delphi 2009+)

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