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Ingvar Nilsen
Delphi Developer |
Ingvar Nilsen
Delphi Developer |
Re: XP Support in Delphi2003-08-27 04:28:52 AM delphi141 John Kaster (Borland) writes: QuoteI've been planning on doing more episodes but ran into some -- Ingvar Nilsen |
John Kaster (Borland)
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-27 06:56:40 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
Ingvar Nilsen writes:
QuoteThese videos are just great! John Kaster, Borland Developer Relations, bdn.borland.com $1280/$50K: homepages.borland.com/jkaster/tnt/thanks.html Make a wish: qc.borland.com * Get source codecentral.borland.com |
F.F
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-27 07:58:56 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
David Erbas-White <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, wrote these words of
incredible wisdom: Quote>Well, money poured into Kylix is money wasted. However, it has been a non-event in the Linux world. It is buggy and fails to install on current distributions, ( Redhat, Suse , Mandrake etc ) . Have a look in any of the Kylix newsgroups to see the litany of complaints. In any case, releasing a Pascal based tool into a community that has traditionally been C++/C oriented was not a bright move. |
Dave White
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-27 08:41:10 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
"F.F" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
QuoteUnfortunately, some of us have learned to ignore any statements with a Dave White |
Dr Sigmund Mohammad
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-28 01:34:00 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
In reality though, Borland Delphi 7 is little more than Delphi 6 with a few VCL
hacks to get the components displaying correctly. Many components don't even look XP-ified, for example the DB and StringGrid components. "Paul" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes news:3f48692c$XXXX@XXXXX.COM... QuoteDelphi 7 new features - from Borland site: |
Jonathan Lynas
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-28 01:54:29 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
I logged this in QC (3850) some time ago. After waiting, and waiting for a
patch, I contacted Borland UK. Their response was that this was "not a bug", as "theming support is taking over drawing of the controls and preventing VCL from doing its normal drawing". In what respect isn't it a bug? I've had to go through all my frames and try to work around this problem by changing TLabels to TStaticText. I have also had to change some of my own TGraphicControl descendants to TWinControl descendants just to fix this. This has cost me several days to fix, work I shouldn't have had to do. I've been a Delphi evangelist since v1. I won't be buying Delphi 8. "Dave Nottage (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes QuoteDr Sigmund Mohammad writes: |
John Kaster (Borland)
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-28 03:11:27 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
Rolf Frei writes:
QuoteJohn your XP manifest demonstration isn't that good. Quotenot correctly look with an manifest under an older Delphi version. This is |
Dave Nottage (TeamB)
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-29 04:28:42 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
John Edward Scott writes:
QuoteHowever it seems with the latest releases from Borland they want to -- Dave Nottage (TeamB) |
John Edward Scott
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-29 05:58:09 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
With respect Dave, I did say *relatively straightforward* given the
resources available to Borland, plus that is what the wonderful world of bug fixing/problem resolving is all about...tracking down that elusively *something* that makes the code not quite do whats expected. I'd love to take up the challenge, however bugs in my own code currently prevent me having the time to investigate other peoples! John. "Dave Nottage (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes QuoteJohn Edward Scott writes: |
Dave Nottage (TeamB)
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-29 06:54:11 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
John Edward Scott writes:
QuoteWith respect Dave, I did say *relatively straightforward* given the QuoteI'd love to take up the challenge, however bugs in my own code it is; they're only concerned with having it fixed. Where I don't have access to the source I'd still own the problem, it would just be that I would be hitting the people responsible, or finding another solution. -- Dave Nottage (TeamB) |
John Edward Scott
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-29 03:56:59 PM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
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"Dave Nottage (TeamB)" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes QuoteJohn Edward Scott writes: QuoteWhere I don't have access to the source I'd still own the problem, it have to say that the majority of the time I have been working for somebody else (i.e nameless corporation) that when faced with a problem like that their response is usually "find the fastest workaround", I never actually had the luxury of having a boss who told me "take all the time you need, just fix the bug". Thankfully when you do things for yourself and set your own deadlines etc, thats a different matter! However I am probably drifting off-topic. John. |
C Clemans
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-29 07:41:41 PM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
In article <3f4be5a5$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>, XXXX@XXXXX.COM
says... QuoteIngvar Nilsen writes: It's bit longer than that isn't it? <g> info.borland.com/media/shockwave/d7_webservice_xp_themes.html Look forward to more of these. -- Craig Clemans Ledger Accounting Software www.ledgeraccounting.com Accounting Source Code for Delphi uses DBISAM from Elevatesoft.com |
Ingvar Nilsen
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-30 04:22:35 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
C Clemans writes:
QuoteFor whatever reason, the video stops running after about 10 seconds. Ingvar Nilsen |
John Kaster (Borland)
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-30 05:03:53 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
C Clemans writes:
QuoteFor whatever reason, the video stops running after about 10 seconds. QuoteLook forward to more of these. John Kaster, Borland Developer Relations, bdn.borland.com $1280/$50K: homepages.borland.com/jkaster/tnt/thanks.html Make a wish: qc.borland.com * Get source codecentral.borland.com |
Craig Clemans
Delphi Developer |
2003-08-30 07:37:02 AM
Re: XP Support in Delphi
Ingvar Nilsen writes:
QuoteC Clemans writes: |