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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Hi John</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I upgraded from D2007 in November. </span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>1 -  I am mulling whether to get just Delphi XE2 professional upgrade or RAD Studio XE2 upgrade....interested in
playing/experimenting with RADPHP ? eg a simple version of one of my apps rewritten as a web app could be cool
and useful...  but its only a wish idea and might never get to it!   Anyone think its worth the $300 extra for RAD
Studio XE2 upgrade if I am pretty much a pure Delphi guy?</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I was also wanting to find a good web development platform and D4PHP (vers 2) looked promising as it would
leverage my Delphi experience. There were a few issues I could not get past. Not sure it it was just me or D4PHP</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">* The help was no help at all.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">* There are critical but (almost) unexplained properties that must be set on controls to get things working right.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">* Need to know some Java to get the best from the experience. D4PHP assumes you know some Java.</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">* To deploy to the web you neet your host to be using PHP 5.??</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">* The appearance of your page/controls is not really easily altered with the standard controls. There are other
controls you can buy which look very good but once again a bit a learning experience with not much on line help.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Maybe the latest offering is improved on some fronts ??</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I would love to hear from anyone who has persisted with D4PHP and willshoot me down and help me out but at
the moment D4PHP and therefore RADPHP is shelved.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>2 ? If I get Delphi XE2 now and add the RadPHP later how much would that cost ? and is that a practical way to do
it if I get it only when I need it...(ie does it install into the same IDE or is it then a totally separate product)</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Totally separate product.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"><i>3 ? I understand that Rave Reports in D2007 is no longer in XE2 ? is this correct?   I use the code based reports
and a generic printing unit (load data on a form and use a generic function to turn the display into a report ? labels
memos grids and all) ? I presume what is XE2 has some equivalent way of code based reports?.     Can it output
PDF as well?  (Rave can)</i></span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Rave Reports Version 10 is in XE2. All reports seem to make the move to XE2 without issues. (phew !!)</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">PDF output is still an option. One strange thing - Version 10 is not mentioned at all on the nevrona web site.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I thought unicode was going to give me some headaches in upgrading apps from D2007 to XE2. These di not
eventuate although I have to admit not actually using any unicode features. So maybe I will get the headache later
when  I do some unicoding.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">While on the topic of XE2 .... Anyone out there noticing any delays in the responses of the XE2 IDE ???</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I am experiencing big delays (up to 30 seconds) in the code completion responding and also loss of the cursor
after an editior window swap for up to 30 seconds. The embarcadero forum does not seem to have a Q&A area for
these kind of things and I have not heard back from Malcolm Groves ((come in Malcolm :-)) about this. (ahh ! that
feels better off my chest !)</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">HTH</span></font></div>
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