> For something much better and much cheaper than Skyline, see > > http://www.hi-components.com/nindex.asp
I am a big fan of ImageEn and the author keeps the components update regularly. The code is in pretty good shape as well. I find many component devs tend to be old C++ programmers who never learned good code formatting and habits. This is not a problem with ImageEn and it even includes pretty good inline comments around code. If I didn't have a ton of custom code wrapped in an ImageLib display component that would be a complete rewrite, I would switch completely. We have moved every behind the scene processing to ImageEn (scanning, resizing, etc). > As for Delphi 2009, for the small minority on this list like me who > never need any kind of database code and whose trivial string > processing requirements are limited to a few of the standard Delphi > VCL routines in D7 plus SysTools for D7, is there an issue? The two changes Delphi made that is biting us on our rear is the deprication of TBookmarkStr and the change in Strings. I think if your app has no AnsiString refrences (meaning you class all strings and chars as "String" and "Char") and you don't use the old TBookmarkStr functionality you probably won't even notice other than a small change here or there. Converting from Delphi 7 to 2007 took me about an hour for a very large system (about 3 million lines of code including 3rd party components). Delphi 2009... ouch, but I suspect we are in a very small minority. > Do I need to do anything to prevent CodeGear breaking my D7 code with > unused features should Delphi 2010 or whatever it will be called be > acquired for its promised 64 bit capability to overcome the > insupportably small (< 500 MB) image size limitations of 32 bit > Windows with memory mapped files that slow things down badly in these > days when main memories of 16GB and more can be had for a pittance? I think only time will tell what Delphi 2010 will deliver. I still remember moving Delphi 1 to Delphi 3 where the integer size changed and it was a pretty big deal. Course I doubt it will be that traumatic as Delphi 1 had other issues they were coding their way out of. We were looking forward to it since we already run x64 OSes serverside and have a large multi-user, multi-threaded and multi-tier application. We could see some nice performance gains if we could run in a true 64bit mode. __________________________________________________ Delphi-Talk mailing list -> [email protected] http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/delphi-talk
