Hi people...
BorCon99 is now over - ending with a look under the lid of the
Inprise/Borland R&D labs. Here's a quick summary of what was covered:
Blake Stone covered some of the extensibility features of JBuilder for
Solarus, by enabling it to build classes for the KVM (Java VM for the
Pilot). There was no RAD support (tho nothing except time preventing
it), but you could build your .java class into a class file, select a
context menu item and have it compile it into a .prc file that you can
then sync to the pilot and run. Very cool. Time to upgrade my pilot,
methinks.
The Delphi for Linux (Kylix) guy, who's name I can't remember, showed
the first ever demo of what they have at present, which is the delphi
and c builder command line compilers running under linux. There is a
long way to go before the RAD client is there, but its a positive start.
The demo was the compilation (in c++) of xgalaga using gcc and bcc - bcc
took a little over half the time of gcc - noticably faster. Some
comments were made about this over the conference, mostly about the VCL
- it will be based on X, not a specific window manager. It will support
Corel and RedHat out of the box, and is guesstimated (very very rough)
to be 'working' (as opposed to released) sometime in the middle of next
year. _This_ I'm hanging out for.
David I also showed C++ Builder 5 - also the first public demo of it.
Not being a C++ person, I didn't take it in too much, but it looked nice
- some of the features are desktops (ala D5), COM+ support, MFC 6
support, ATL support, local options per file (ie, per .cpp), XML-based
make files, and codeguard, last seen in Borland C++ 5, which allows
compilation of code to check for nil pointers and other C++-caused
screwups. Easy way out if just to use Java.... :)
Demos of JBuilder for Solarus running under pretty much everthing (NT,
Linux, Solarus) were made - it RIPS of an UltraSPARC 10 (as you'd
expect), pity about Motif.
All in all, a fun and informative weekend (I've been here since friday)
- hope all the Kiwi's that went had a good time, and learned a lot.
Nic.
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