tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post6073070308693159221..comments2023-06-26T02:09:57.472-07:00Comments on The Delphi Hacker's Corner: Well, that didn't work so well...The Delphi Hacker's Cornerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11322326977921252225noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post-16467172593344931422008-09-18T05:38:08.000-07:002008-09-18T05:38:08.000-07:00I am fully satisfied with the update. I think the ...I am fully satisfied with the update. I think the Unicode strings were implemented very well. I can already compile my app with D2009 and it works, but there are still a lot of string conversion warnings. I need to keep a lot of parts using UTF8String and AnsiString, so it is a lot of work to keep everything clean and keep the conversions to a minimum.<br><br>Now go for 64 bits, please!!!!!!!!! Sooner rather than later would be great. If we can get them in less than a year that would be good.Tobias Giesenhttp://www.superflexible.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post-24714189732847416142008-09-18T08:29:50.000-07:002008-09-18T08:29:50.000-07:00We are a small software dev co (that would not exi...We are a small software dev co (that would not exist were Delphi not such a great tool. What started out as just a hobby has grown into a company that competes well beyond its weight class thanks to the speed and power of Delphi develpment). <br><br>Unfortunately this means that we are very conservative in upgrading (History: D3->D5->D2006->D2007). While we have found upgrading in the past to be surprisingly painless (even D5->D006), i fear that will not be the case with D2009 which due to Unicode will break too much third party code.<br><br>Personally I am glad that Unicode has been implemented (it is something we plan to support in the future), but we are unlikely to upgrade until there is a critical mass of Unicode supported third party controls.<br><br>I doubt we are alone in our thinking, so I suspect that the uptake of D2009 will be slowed by the "UnicodeString fear".Nigel Xhttp://www.xequte.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post-80938228432467078082008-09-18T15:29:00.000-07:002008-09-18T15:29:00.000-07:00It's usually just a matter of 1-2 hours to upg...It's usually just a matter of 1-2 hours to upgrade third party component libraries to Delphi 2009. I absolutely don't mind doing that. I've had to fix so many bugs in third party libraries in the past that modifying them has become routine work anyway.Tobias Giesenhttp://www.superflexible.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post-51493045027308299712008-09-18T23:19:38.000-07:002008-09-18T23:19:38.000-07:00@NigelI agree, will have to wait for 3rd party sup...@Nigel<br><br>I agree, will have to wait for 3rd party support and I am using lots and lots of them. I need to eat and will not be getting paid to do such upgrades.JBhttp://www.fsr.co.zanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1536454717730673211.post-31507094028137784282009-04-04T17:56:56.000-07:002009-04-04T17:56:56.000-07:00Hi there,I tried out the trial version of Delphi 2...Hi there,<br><br>I tried out the trial version of Delphi 2009 (was loooong time since I used Delphi last). Thought the new dbExpress sounded interesting, but surprised me that there where no dbExpress for ODBC nor one for ADO?<br><br>Guess one have to do dbGo for ADO when using that kind of connections? But seemed silly not be able to use the dbExpress.<br><br>On a completely different thing... Read a blog where a guy was hoping for a revival of the Kylix. Why not go for a VCL.JAVA instead?? That way you could develop your application on windows, and publish it on any machine that has a java runtime installed...<br><br>Was great to see the Unicode part running smoothly. Was something that was missed for a long time from the Delphi "out of the box". Good work!!Delphi Revisitednoreply@blogger.com