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Providing a lot of backward compatibility for older compilers is a lot of work for diminishing returns.

Also, I can't test compilers before XE.

WinHelp is way out of date & not supported at all on Windows 10 & 11.

Remove these files at the next major release.

Recreated from delphidabbler/ddablib repository issue 3

Recreated from SourceForge ticket no.35

Project: wdwstate

Original creator was Ivo Ungermann - 2016-01-03

Even if demos recommend using form's Show and Hide as places for Restore and Restore methods of TPJWdwState components, there can be reasons to place it e.g. in Create and Destroy. And there is code in Restore method reflecting this situation and factical restoring is to be postponed for time of form showing. In contrast, Save method doesn't check if factical restoring took place (affected form is not shown during session) and form's design-time state is saved instead. There is my correction of Save method source code:

begin
Assert(not (csDesigning in ComponentState));

// Check if there is an owning window - get out if not
if fWindow = nil then
Exit;

if fRestorePending then
Exit;

Other similar components can be affected the same way.

Rename unit as DelphiDabbler.Lib.WdwState.

.dcr file will need renaming similarly.

The will be a breaking change so needs introducing at the next major version release.

Component registration code really should be in a separate unit, say DelphiDabbler.Lib.WdwStateDsgn