[DUG] Escalation of QC reports

Wed Sep 5 16:14:13 NZST 2007

My $0.02

1. My opinion is mixed on this.  They have made major strides since D7, 
it's a bit unfair to expect things to be the same and yet have lots of 
new features.  That being said the only major change to the look of the 
user interface of our main product has been to update all the images on 
the buttons from 16 colour BMPs to 32bit PNGs (which has involved my 
drawing hundreds of buttons)

2. I agree that the help sucks

3. I think this relates to the help sucking

4. This sounds like paranoia to me - but just because your paranoid 
doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

5. I've ditched D7 completely now (if only I could get rid of VS2003, 
but CodeGear have dropped their plans for the Compact Framework).  But 
I'm a lone developer so I have a bit of flexibility in this regard.

6. Yes, I did the begin, type in end; then have to delete it because it 
was added automatically in my latest video.  Fortunately only a few 
hundred people will probably watch it so it's not too embarrassing.

7. I noticed the underscore issue with code completion the other day, 
with regards to the clipboard format constants CF_BITMAP for instance, 
type CF and it finds stuff, type in CF_ and it finds nothing, CF_B and 
you're away again, in fact this was for my last video also.

Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington 

Rohit Gupta wrote:
> Jeremy,
>
> I finally moved to D2007, seduced by the programming speed gains.  So 
> far, the hassles more than negate the gains.  I am actually slower in 
> D2007 than D7. I spend more than 10 hours a day on it, so I am not 
> exactly a beginner.   The vista stuff maybe neat, but it is useless as 
> I can not write a vista only app.
>
> The reasons are -
>
> 1.  Because things have changed the way they work....  but this is a 
> valid criticism.  My users would chuck my app out if I did this.
>
> 2.  Because the help sucks... I find using D7 and googling for help.  
> And then writing numerous test apps to prove something.
>
> 3.  Because changes are not documented, we still keep finding numerous 
> tiny things.
>
> 4.  Because I have had to write a complete series of dunit test cases 
> for my wrappers around the vcl and windows functions.  I can not trust 
> the Borland/Codegear programmers in this release of Delphi.  This 
> itself has taken 3 weeks of solid work.
>
> 5.  Because we can not maintain code for both D7 and D2007 without a  
> lot of additional effort.  This is partly because of new properties in 
> D2007; everytime a form is saved in D2007, we have to edit out the new 
> properties when copying it to D7..  And partly because the overloaded 
> stuff either works in D7 or in D2007.  There is not much that I can 
> get working in both.  I have had to unoverload  and rename many of 
> these already.
>
> 6.  Code complete thingies are also a pain.  Its partly because I am 
> not used to them and still type the end in for begin-end and then have 
> to delete it  And partly because it does not go far enough.  I keep 
> waiting for it do complete the stuff and often it wont.  The 
> formatting is also not to my liking.  I realise I can spend some time 
> here and tweak it.... its in the todo list.
>
> 7.  It still will not find all constants, types etc when editing, but 
> will find them once I type them in.  This is not new, but has not yet 
> been fixed.  It also has a hangup over the underscore.  For instance a 
> constant may be abc_xyz, ctrl space will not find it if I stop at abc_ 
> but will find it if I only try after abc
>
> Having said all the above, I still want to carry on with D2007 as I it 
> feels nicer to work in.
>
>
> Some comments on your comments on the QC reports.  :-)
>
>> Report No: 51286          Status: Reported
>> TDBEDIT - modified property is essentially random
>> http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=51286
>>
>> Been there for ages (as you state) and two of your other reports are
>> about how fixing issues tightened up other implementations. A sample
>> attachment that connected to the DBDemos alias would enhance your
>> report future.
>>   
>
> I might do that later this week
>
>> --------------------
>> Report No: 50122 (RAID: 254204)          Status: Open
>> IDE does not quit from Process Manager
>> http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=50122
>>
>> It is open
>>   
>
> This is the main pain for me.  I was unable to attach any images 
> through either of the two win apps or the web.  I finally emailed one 
> of the respondents directly.  I now have 4 pcs where bds will not die.
>
>> --------------------
>> Report No: 49311          Status: Open
>> Ctrl Enter will not open file
>> http://qc.codegear.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=49311
>>
>> Hmm. That is the same as the above one right?
>>   
>
> Yes, its because the web site is the pits too.  I was trying not to 
> whinge about this too.  :-)  In comparison to this, business objects, 
> netgear, nvidia websites are amazing to report bugs on.  I even had 
> nvidia programmer apologise to me for the grief caused. 
> In this case, I entered one of these in the wrong area.  I could not 
> alter it, change its category or delete it.  So I had to duplicate it.
>
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