We went from D4 to D6. XP support would be one of the few features we could use. The .Net stuff seems far too transient to spend time coding for, we use Crystal reports and do OO already. I think calling all Delphi users non OO developers was a bit of an insult, VB (6 and below) programmers do GUIs for databases, delphi is so much more.
re Bold, it was nice that it automatically handled persistence and data display for the user but seemed it could be somewhat inflexible. After John's excellent presentation of D6 I was somewhat disappointed by the presentation, did we really need to see Linux boot but not do anything with it? Rob Software engineer Wild Software Ltd Ph 03 338-1407 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Nilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 12:39 PM Subject: RE: [DUG]: Delphi 8 ? > Robert Martin asks: > > > I went to the presentation yesterday. Is anyone planning to rush out and > > buy Delphi 7? If so which features attracted you? > > I want to get my hands on D7 soon. We are still developing with D5 at > present as D6 offered no improvements that we needed. > > But D7 includes XP theme support built in, partly from Mike Lische's code > and hopefully partly integrated into the base TWinControl event handling > (WM_THEME event support that is). Having this done would save me a lot of > work getting our application theme enabled. From what I heard anout the > theme support it appears that Borland have it working so that you can use > themes on Windows versions prior to XP as well, another way cool feature > that I want. > > The only other inducement that I can see is that the web site announcement > included words to the effect that D7 has improved code generation, and as > the optimiser was getting rather aged in respect of P4 and Athlon > instruction cost changes, I'm hoping for a better and faster code for our > application. > > Cheers, Max. > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
