CubicDesign wrote: > *Dear Cosmin,* > > > Sorry about that. > I follow EXACTLY the steps described by you until step 6 because that's > the only way the logic can flow. > At that step, I had a problem with Delphi help system. It sometimes > loses the path of my help files. I do not know why and I found no event > to trigger that behavior. > More exactly it tells me that it cannot find a help file and it shows me > the path to that file: c:BorlandDelphi7HelpD7.hlp > So I kinda give up on this path but I still spent some hours looking on > Google for peoples who encountered this problem. > My step 6 has nothing to do with Delphi's help. MSDN stands for Microsoft Developer Network, a must-read for *any* windows developer! > This bad event accumulated with other problems and other bugs in Delphi. > This time they really were bugs in Delphi IDE because they were reported > at the official web site. > Are those bugs reported or acknowledged? I ask this because, lately, there are lots of roomers about Delphi bugs, and people seem to think all versions of Delphi are buggy, but that's not true. Delphi 7 is a VERY stable version, very well designed. That's not true for later versions of Delphi, and it (again) becomes true for Delphi 2006. I find Delphi 2006 fairly stable and well behaved, those a bit slow for my liking as I'm used with Delphi 7's speed.
That doesn't mean MY Delphi 7 IDE is "well behaved". The IDE is not well behaved bug guess what, I know it's my fault: I've got quite a few packages of my own installed, and one of those packages has a memory leak. I've also got a miss-behaved component of my own that behaves strangely when "destroyed". After dropping one of those components onto a form I can only close Delphi from Task Manager! But as I sad, I *know* I'm to blame for those problems, I just don't have the time to fix them... > Some years ago, I used to check the documentation first. But now, when > something strange happens I check first the official bug list and then I > dig to find the problem. > Take into account people thinking something is a bug when it's not and reporting it. Trying the documentation first might still be a good idea. Well... I usually go directly for the "source.pas", it's faster and better then the documentation :). > A quote says: "When you burnt yourself with soup, next time you will > check even the yogurt". > Where are you from? I also know that! Does it sound better like this: "Daca te arzi cu supa sufli si-n iaurt?" __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> Delphi-Talk@elists.org http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
