[DUG] Spacely Beta Bloggers

[Robert martin]

Hi

Thanks Jeremy.  Delphi 2007 is high on our agenda as well.  Your answers 
helped, A Lot.

Rob Martin
Software Engineer

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Jeremy North wrote:
> Hi John,
>
>> I am tempted to upgrade to Delphi D2007  win32.
>
> You won't regret it, even if you are just coming for BDS2006.
>
>> Q1 - Is there a restriction about programs built under Spacely not 
>> running
>> on Win9x?  Or running as long as certain components are not used?
>
> The same restrictions apply that did in BDS2006. There is no new
> restrictions added. All the vista stuff is dynamically loaded.
>
>> Q2 - alternatively if I move to Delphi 2007 and copy source back to 
>> the BDS
>> 2006 environment will BDS 2006 remove any form and component 
>> properties it
>> doesn't recognise?
>
> You can. Except for DBExpress (which has changed a bit and ISN'T
> compatible) the only published property introduced is GlassFrame on
> TForm. Don't change the defaults and it won't be streamed to the DFM,
> so no issues with BDS2006.
>
> As Spacely is a non-breaking release it wasn't possible to add
> published properties to many componets because they just didn't have
> the method overrides in place. If you do upgrade to Spacely, I
> recommend you check out the source code for forms.pas and see how the
> GlassFrame published property is implemented.
>
>> Q3 - Apart from Vista aero and dialogs support and refinements in the 
>> IDE
>> mentioned on the blog with the components palette speed, any other
>> significant enhancements/alterations?
>
> The two most significant changes are Vista support and the new MSBuild
> system. That is not to say that hundreds of bugs and features have
> been added.
>  * Error Insight has been greatly enhanced.
>  * A number of Refactoring enhancements/fixes have been done.
>  * Code Editor enhancements
>  * Speed enhancements
>  * Errant painting/flicker fixes
>  * Layout loading issues (a lot less flicker when changing to debug
> desktop on run)
>  * Speed of layout loading increased greatly
>  * The start up speed and general use speed of the IDE has improved 
> greatly
>  * DBExpress changes are huge (although I don't use DBExpress). The
> DBExpress text on my blog was reviewed by a DBExpress developer for
> accuracy!
>  * Help has had a lot of attention. It won't be perfect but it has
> come a long long way.
>  * New installation method to allow for updating with new patches
> (ie. Help, IDE updates) easily.
>  * Change to the community edition welcome page (with improvements).
> The community welcome page is great, especially the Favourites
> section.
>
> Hopefully some of the fixed QC reports will be made available for
> people to query on.
>
> cheers,
> Jeremy
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