[DUG] BDS2006 and Delphi 2007

[John Bird]

In general BDS2006 is very stable.  Any issues I have noticed are:

1 - Memory leak still?  I have installed SP2 and all the hotfixes including
the Hotfix 10 (HotfixRollup2).  I recall the Hotfix 9 was to fix a memory
leak when switching editor tabs in the IDE - however I still notice that
after a day or so compiling/running/editing etc the memory use is OK -
200-300MB but if I quit BDS the memory use drops by 500MB.

2 - Since installing the hotfix 10 - when I quit the IDE I get sometimes,
not always but maybe half the time

Access Violation at address 20C707A0 in module 'coreide100.bpl', read 
of address 000000A4.

Then:  Exception EinvalidPointer on module rtl100.bpl at 00006581.  
Invalid pointer operation

3 - I have recently started using the feature to pin back the object
inspector/structure/component windows etc (so they minimise sideways to the
edge of the screen).  This gives a huge amount of free screen space when
working on a large form, and works snappily when using the IDE, BUT produces
very spectacular screen redraws/flickers when running a program as the IDE
redraws several other desktop layouts before producing the running program.
I presume this is the flicker that Delphi 2007 has fixed?

4 - Loading times for the IDE have improved spectacularly to 15-30 seconds
since last Hotfix 10.  And also quitting the IDE is just a few seconds,
unless it crashes as in point 2.

Any one else have comments?

Delphi 2007:

I think this has been sort of answered, but can someone confirm again that a
very ordinary program compiled using Delphi 2007 using ordinary VCL stuff
but not using any later Win API stuff (Win 200 onwards) or Rave reports will
still run OK on Windows 98? I still do have some users to cater for!  I
presume it also does console apps if needed?

Can someone post again the link for the upgrade offer.  I think I want to
dip my toes in the water....

John