What stay with D3?
Give me D4 or D5 anyday. They may have some minor issues, but the IDE
improvements do make a large difference to development.
I consider D4.03 to be more stable than D5 in what I regard as some
important areas.
You notice this quite quick when developing your own packages/components
that have to be installed into the IDE. eg If you compile a package that has
been installed, it works okay in D4, in D5 you get variable results -
especially if you have descendants of "TField". I now have to exit and
restart D5 after a recompile of a package that includes any TField
descendants.
Most problems I have had are caused by bugs in our own components.
Myles.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Scadden [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2000 08:45
> To: Multiple recipients of list DELphi
> Subject: [DUG]: D5 being problematic - anyone got ideas.
>
> We I have told everyone about Delphi in the organisation, and one of my
> collegues
> made jump to Delphi from Fortran at last. Unfortunately, he got D5 and
> between
> us we have struggled somewhat. In frustration, got the patch loaded but no
> appreciable difference...
>
> First there is the unit that will not die - start brand new project but
> the moment you
> do a build with something from RX lib (which has unit called STRUTILS), it
> suddenly creates strutils.dcu in a subdir where there used to have a unit
> with the
> same name and then it get confused. Solution. Explicitly add RX strutils
> to the
> project. The RX lib Strutils.pas is the only strutils around on the drives
> accessible
> to the machine now.
>
> Then there is the IDE playing up. When its bad we get the following
> problems.
>
> 1/ Where you d/click in the error window, it doesnt jump to window/line
> with the error
> 2/ It doesnt recognise unit has been edited unless you do explicit save on
> the unit.
> 3/ When debugging, the step function doesnt navigate a cursor through the
> source
> after the first unit. (but the correct unit is displayed).
>
> As suddenly as problems arise, they disappear. I think when you get a
> clean compile
> and run of the code, the IDE suddenly comes right - till next time.
>
> Any ideas at all? Anyone else seen similar? The machine with the problem
> is runnning
> NT 4 SP4.
>
> All I can say, is thank goodness I stuck with D3.
>
>
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