On 10/13/2011 4:36 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote:
Plus, isn't Embarcadero pushing FireMonkey anyway?
I don't see it that way. I see FM as a Delphi PHP/3rd Rail/Prism like
product, not as serious VCL contender. If I understood it correctly, it is
mostly a sideproduct of internal efforts to port Embarcadero's non-Borland
originating lines.
Why would you think that? FireMonkey isn't mature enough to be usable
yet, but it's definitely where future Delphi development will occur.
After XE2 shipped Embarcadero laid off a bunch of VCL developers and
announced they were growing their overseas teams (likely FireMonkey):
http://community.devexpress.com/blogs/ctodx/archive/2011/09/19/delphi-vcl-is-dead-long-live-firemonkey.aspx
ARM/iOS/Android support will require FireMonkey, and is their biggest
growth opportunity. Allen Bauer has also said FireMonkey apps should be
able to work with Windows 8's Metro interface, which won't be true for
VCL apps.
BTW, I wanted to point out, to anyone arguing for full Delphi
compatibility, that on OS X Delphi's DefaultSystemCodePage and
AnsiString(0) are *not* the system encoding _or_ UTF-8. They're the
Windows ANSI codepages that correspond to the system's locale (so, 1252
for US/UK versions). It's a weird gotcha, and means it's not safe to
rely on AnsiString to communicate with system functions anymore.
--
Craig Peterson
Scooter Software
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