[DUG] XE2 SP3 Code completion

[John Bird]

I haven't been using XE2 heavily yet - still initial setup and testing, but 
from my impression so far it looks leaner and tidier than D2007 which was 
already a pretty sweet IDE.

Installing my limited set of components (for which I have source and was 
wondering if they would work ok) and Turbo Power Abbrevia (Sourceforge has 
an XE2 version) all took 1-2 hours and projects were building and running 
fine.   So far with careful research and planning for what needs to be 
altered for Unicode the impact has been refreshingly little so far and 
*most* stuff just works as is.

Only reason I haven't switched totally to XE2 is that I still have work to 
do on a lot of library routines that use TFilestream on ASCII files - which 
is an area where the differences with Unicode show loud and clear.

John Bird

-----Original Message----- 
From: David Brennan
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:25 PM
To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
Subject: Re: [DUG] XE2 SP3 Code completion

It would be frustrating if they have broken basic functionality in order to
have FireMonkey work a few percent better.

It always seemed likely that a cross platform VCL would need 2 or 3 releases
to be remotely ready for primetime so I'm not too surprised (though I am
hoping they can pull it together faster than I thought and have it working
well for XE3).

Arguably what is more important right now is that XE2 delivers solid
performance for compiling VCL32 and 64 bit apps since that would drive some
upgrades on its own. It sounds like it currently doesn't.

We decided not to take the Delphi 2007 to XE2 upgrade offer simply because
there was so much mucking around getting my All Access version of XE2
installed (you may recall my post in December about Toolcloud problems) that
by the time I got it installed yesterday the upgrade offer had already
expired making the whole goal of testing it out in advance impossible.

I'm pretty confident there will be another upgrade offer when XE3 comes out
anyway because there must be a lot like us stuck on Delphi 2007.

Cheers,
David.



-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces at listserver.123.net.nz] On Behalf Of Richard Crowle
Sent: Friday, 3 February 2012 1:55 p.m.
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: Re: [DUG] XE2 SP3 Code completion

I hear they about to release update 4 for XE2, also this might be the
last update for  XE2, not 100% sure on that

Overall  XE2 is very buggy, in saying that they have done a lot of fixes
in the last 3 updates, I mostly being using XE2 for the firemonkey
stuff,  which the more I get into the more confidence with I have with
it, but there are way too many frustrating issues/bugs with firemonkey.
I am sure XE3 is going to be better version


Richard

>
> I just filed a QC report yesterday on some code which the compiler
happily
> compiles yet the code completion chokes on
>
> http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=103053
>
> I'm not holding my breath on getting it fixed before XE3 though :(
>
> D
>
> > Hi folks
> >
> > We have just upgraded (oxymoron alert) to XE2 from 2010 and code
> > completion is as flaky as hell. Sometimes works sometimes not. An
> > example is is I type the start of a name at the start of a line in a
> > method nothing happens with Ctrl-Space but if i then move the
letters
> > in a few spaces it does work and shows the possibilities available.
> > Also
> > - even if it does work - the top line is no longer highlighted so
> > pressing enter does not use the text but cancels out of the
completion
> > list.
> >
> > This is so frustrating it makes me want to give up on Delphi. We
keep
> > getting new bells and whistles but things break along the way ...
> >
> > Anybody else experienced these issues - I don't see anything readily
> > on Google ...
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Paul Lowman
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