<HTML><HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY dir=ltr>
<DIV dir=ltr>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">
<DIV>Installation was easy, downloading the files and installing and then it
offering to download the update 3 took quite most of the time – about an hour
each.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Installing a few components was easy – FindFile HAHFindFile and
QProgressBar and TurboPower Abbrevia (the last from Sourceforge has a XE2 source
complete with all files needed to build and worked exactly as the installation
instructions. About 30-60 minutes all up and I done.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A common library file of mine has several issues to resolve with
string handling – still sorting that.so haven’t built anything large
yet.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Otherwise effortless so far:</DIV>
<DIV>eg:</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>a search program I wrote compiles and runs unaltered just slightly slower,
eg 7.1 secs as compared to D2007 version at 6.8 sec – acceptable seeing as its
converting every line internally to Unicode strings as it reads files.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>But I do have one question!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Why has the executable gone from 527K to 1.5MB? What is all the
extra stuff in it? Its not runtime themes as I turned those off and
it shrunk only by 200K to 1.3MB. Nothing else in the project options
looked unusual or that different.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>(Program uses a FindFiles component (stringlist), a few stringlists, a
stringgrid, 2 forms, a few edit boxes and checkboxes......nothing unusual so why
now so much larger?)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">John
Bird<BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>