Received ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Meek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 3:03 PM Subject: Delphi 2006 first look
> Please, if this message gets through to the list will someone let me > know? I'm still not receiving copies of my own mail to this list, and I'm > going to attempt unsubscribing and then re-subscribing again but my ISP is > also experiencing a problem right now that may have some bearing on this > problem. They've promised a resolution by Tuesday, so after that we'll see! > > Anyway, I had not intended to purchase D2006 this time around but a > recent theft forced me to replace Delphi and it didn't seem right to > re-purchase a lower version. So it was delivered yesterday and after > installing it and a couple components that work with it, I started giving it > a good trial run. > First of all I have to admit that Delphi's loading time has > increased significantly over D2005, and may even challenge D7 in this > capacity but I currently have no way of checking this. Let's just say it > "appears" to be faster based upon the components being loaded! I should > also note at this time that during the initial install of D2006 I did NOT > install the C++ personality. I have absolutely no interest in C++ and > figured it to be an unnecessary resource burden. > Working within the Win32 personality I found that unlike it's > predecessor, changing back and forth between the code editor and form > designer no longer takes the same amount of time as it does for me to brew a > pot of coffee, and that alone is a welcome relief. In fact in almost every > way and with every feature the IDE seems not only faster but much more > stable than it's been for the last three years. One problem reared it's > ugly head once again however, and that appears to be once again connected to > the use of "Together" support which provides the model view of one's > project. Like D2005, D2006 appears strained under the load of this > particular feature, and yet Borland has had a year to fix it! The problem > is not readily apparent when you first start working on a project. But load > a form that includes a lot of components and/or code and all of a sudden XP > reports very high page use and the editor slows to a mere crawl...so slow a > crawl that it's editor cannot possibly keep up with even MY 2 finger typing! > If you try to ignore it and continue typing in the hope that the editor will > eventually catch up and show the code you're writing, be warned that doing > so will eventually cause the IDE to lock up or just shut down! > Now in D2005 this problem although never fixed could be gotten > around by merely turning off "Together" in the options dialog, however in > D2006 this does NOT appear to be the case! I was forced to take the advice > of those who found this problem before I did on the Borland newsgroups and > actually delete it's registry loading entry! Although I didn't try it, I > suppose that simply renaming the faulty bpl would do the same, however you > would most likely get an error message on the next startup and would have to > tell Delphi not to attempt loading it anymore. > Because of having to deal with this problem I wasn't able to get > much further into D2006 and check on some of it's new features, but I > certainly will soon. But in the meantime I hope that Borland is listening > to all the complaints given on this particular problem because nothing is > worse than a feature that offers so much but doesn't work! So once again I > have to wonder what Borland is thinking about to allow this problem to > continue through two versions! > > from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design > > > > __________________________________________________ > Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk > > __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
