<I posted this response this morning and didn't see it come through so appologies if it's a repeat for some of you>
Yeah I've worked on a product where others used them and were able to do some amazing things but I'm pretty sure it was all data-aware components. I've had to go in and fix the DevExpress code as various points though and it's not pretty - very oposite to how I would have done it and think. I've also tried to inherit from their components but gave up as not enough useful stuff was exposed and accessable. Oh and their docs were different to the components on occasion. They seem to be moving away from Delphi_VCL though.
I've not used the latest version as we were stuck using an unsupported older version that worked under D4 and later D7. But we did fix a number of crash-causing memory leaks which we assumed had been covered in the latest version - we did submit a few of our fixes to them though, maybe they haven't gotten through? Data aware only though.
And, yes I would use their components again, primarily the grid as I've not seen anything else get close to the functionality that it offers.
Nahum.
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Anyone else forked out money for this stuff.
I bought it a little while ago to speed up development time on the GUI’s I especially like the LayoutManger, although I cant say I’m a fan of the implementation.
My biggest gripe so far is that the support for the non-dataaware grids is slack, some bits of code are in limbo, and half-coded.
The bizzarest thing If found so far is a dropdown lookup grid. For somereason they hardcoded it to only use DBAware grids. God only knows why until I research the grid. They designed a good datasource style method of getting data for unbound grids. Why they didn’t make everything use this and make a dataaware grid simply be using a dataaware datasource rather than an unbound datasource I’ll never know.
If anyone else is using it have you noticed that Delphi crashes a lot? No memory leaks at runtime luckily..
Regards Kyley. |
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