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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>IDE insight I agree is a big feature.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Drag/droppable “gutter-balls” are another HUGE one
imho, especially when it comes to conditional breakpoints which I use
frequently and always curse when-ever I have to move one from one line of code
to another.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The movable execution point is also MASSIVE. Consider that
in conjunction with the existing ability to call functions and change variable
values via the Expression Evaluator, we have almost as close to a “change
the code and test it while running without having to recompile and restart”
capability as it’s practically possible to get with a compiled language.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Whilst stepping thru your code you see that the code is about to
execute a call which you just realized is causing a problem… it shouldn’t
be making that call ... OK, so I’ll fix the conditions that lead to that
in a moment, but for now I want to see if NOT making the call really does fix
the problem… drag the execution point past the problem call and proceed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thread specific breakpoints is another biggie (and I’ve
got a big post planned on threads coming soon – plug plug plug). </span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>SWEET!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>One thing I don’t like – modeless find (Ctrl+F).
It doesn’t work quite how I’d expect, and we always had incremental
search which still works more intuitively to my mind than modeless find (note
for future Delphi 2010 presentations: FireFox stole from Delphi, not the
other way around!!). </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>But the real “fly in the ointment” is that our Delphi
2010 Enterprise running in a VM just choked on its own registration information
after I had to restart the VM, and now I can’t re-register using the
serial number because I’m told it is invalid or has expired. The
support site says 3 of 10 activations have been used which is puzzling and
worrying – it’s been installed successfully once and failed to activate
twice – it looks like the *<b>failed</b>* registrations have counted
against the activation limit! Which seems to be confirmed by the “activation
history” which presents me with only two downloadable registration TXT
files, date/time stamped on the occasions where activation was refused.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Needless to say I’ve tried downloading those TXT files and
importing via the registration wizard without success.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Yes, I’ve reported it to Embarcadero
registration/installation support, but at the moment it means our
Unicode/Delphi 2010 migration is stalled!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:#1F497D'>L</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz] <b>On Behalf
Of </b>John Bird<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 16 October 2009 5:01 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Has Malcolm Groves Been Misrepresented?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>From Nick Hodges blog</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>"</span><span style='color:navy'>How code should be formatted
is probably a “Top Five Thing for Developers to Argue About”
– right up there with multiple inheritance and whether GOTO is evil or
not."</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>I was chuckling to myself at the Auckland presentation that the F6
IDE insight is really a visual GOTO</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black'>Personally I would rate it as a killer feature. (IDE
insight, not goto)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>John Bird<br>
JBCL<br>
Contact:<br>
<a href="mailto:johnkbird@paradise.net.nz">johnkbird@paradise.net.nz</a><br>
03-3844527, 027 4844528<br>
<a href="http://jbclnz.googlepages.com">http://jbclnz.googlepages.com</a><br>
<a href="http://www.jbcl.co.nz">http://www.jbcl.co.nz</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-----
Original Message ----- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='background:#E4E4E4'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz"
title="jsmith@deltics.co.nz">Jolyon Smith</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>To:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:delphi@delphi.org.nz" title="delphi@delphi.org.nz">'NZ Borland
Developers Group - Delphi List'</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sent:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Friday, October 16,
2009 4:02 PM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Subject:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> Re: [DUG] Has
Malcolm Groves Been Misrepresented?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;
color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>IDE Insight is cool (and perhaps just doesn’t go quite far
enough… vis being able to search the options dialog(s) whilst *<b>in</b>*
those dialogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>I hope to be blogging about some of the other things that I
think are cool and noteworthy additions over the weekend.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a
href="mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz">delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz</a> [mailto:delphi-bounces@delphi.org.nz]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Richard Vowles<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 16 October 2009 3:17 p.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DUG] Has Malcolm Groves Been Misrepresented?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I think, for the true story, you need to hit F6.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>(Hopefully my comment will be
taken for the joke I think it is, albeit a lame joke, it made me laugh :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/10/16 Paul A Norman <<a
href="mailto:paul.a.norman@gmail.com">paul.a.norman@gmail.com</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#404040'>I was not at the Auckland
presentation, and have had to rely on others' reporting of it. Jolyon who
normally appears to be very careful in what he says and writes has said on his
blog:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#404040'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.75pt'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#404040'>"Malcolm Groves stood up
in Auckland and openly told us that in his view, apart from 1 or 2 things, and
really in *his* opinion only 1, Delphi 2010 was basically a bug fix release
with lots of little tweaks here and there. They charged full price for it of
course and won’t be retrofitting those bug fixes to Delphi 2009 or 2007
(where they would be of most use).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#404040'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#404040'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>---<br>
Richard Vowles, Technical Advisor<br>
Developers Inc Ltd<br>
web. <a href="http://www.developers-inc.co.nz">http://www.developers-inc.co.nz</a><br>
ph. +64-9-3600231, mob. +64-275-467747, fax. +64-9-3600384<br>
skype. rvowles, LinkedIn, Twitter<o:p></o:p></p>
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