[DUG] D2009 or later version suggestion....

[John Bird]

Thanks for those links....

I use pretty much a vanilla D2007 installation with almost no add-ons because:

1 - I Like to be able to move to another version of Delphi with minimal fuss - When I moved to D2007 it took around 1 hour for installing and setting up a small number of freeware 3rd party components and get under way compiling :)

2 - Wherever possible I try to do everything with standard VCL, as almost every is there - I generally prefer to go to later versions of Delphi rather than install many add-ons as I find it more useful to have the newer components such as XP themed/Vista themed components than 3rdparty components in general...

What do others regard as most must-have add-ons for the IDE?

I have seen some of the names - JEDI, Castalia, MMX etc, so and always wondered about them - JEDI seems to have almost no documentation.

It looks like much of the features of Castalia and MMX is already in D2007 - are they more aimed at earlier versions?

Also many of the power features of the standard IDE are very hard to discover.....for instance although I have seen others demonstrate declaring a local variable while writing code in D2006/D2007, I have never yet found out how to do it.




John Bird
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jeremy Coulter 
  To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List 
  Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 11:51 AM
  Subject: Re: [DUG] D2009 or later version suggestion....


  do you have a link for it Rohit?

  Jeremy


  On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Rohit Gupta <r.gupta at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

    MMX displays it


    John Bird wrote:
    > Incidentally the one enhancement to Delphi I keep finding I would love is a
    > very simple one, and everyone I mention it to also thinks its a great idea:
    >
    > If the status bar etc showed the name of the procedure or function the
    > cursor was currently in this would be hugely useful.   I am often searching
    > or scrolling through procedures where the start (ie name) of the procedure
    > is off the top of the screen and there is no easy way to tell if I have
    > overshot the end of the procedure and am now in another one...
    >
    > Where is the best place to send a suggestion like this?
    >
    > John
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