On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, L505 wrote:
> >
> > > This is off topic but yesterday I installed D2005 just to look at it. (The
> > > last Delphi I used was D6 or & I believe, in 2003).
> > >
> > > I might be only me, but I was in shock when I saw the Interface. It took
> > > me
> > > everything to set the IDE to non-integrated, and was almost screaming of
> > > horror when I saw the tool bar for the components. The interface takes soo
> > > much time to load and it feels bloated.
> >
> > Hehe :-)
> >
> > I recommend everybody to use Delphi 7 unless you really must develop for
> > .NET.
> >
>
> I use Delphi 6 and 5. Delphi 5 is missing the object inspector, so this is a
> huge chunk
> missing. But if you know the ESCAPE key shortcut its not as bad. Delphi 5 is
> extremely fast
> compared to Delphi 6 and 7. Delphi 6, in my case, I think crashed less than
> Delphi 5 though.
I used D5 for years, but we need 3rd party components, and they no longer
support D5.
>
> There is some problem with Delphi 7 where it locks up my CPU for a few
> seconds, every few
> minutes. I think it is precompiling the units or something, taking intensive
> CPU power. Yet
> Delphi 5 compiles things fast, so I don't know why they would have changed
> their
> pre-compiling tactics.
Probably for code-insight. Switch that off to see whether it still does that.
>
> I think Dave Fuller resigned from CEO position sometime earlier this year?
Yes. A month or two ago.
Michael.
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