Re: [twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Arno Garrels
Tobias Rapp wrote: > Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: >> ICS does not currently support FireMonkey or Mac OS-X, it needs a >> lot of work since Linux is not event driven like Windows, and makes >> use of threads to prevent blocking. ICS did support Kylix for Linux >> several years ago,

Re: [twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Tobias Rapp
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > There may be such an event system in FireMonkey, don't actually know. > > But supporting ICS with FireMonkey and Mac OS-X is not simply a case of a > few bug fixes and conditional compilation changes which is effectively > all that is needed for 64-bi

Re: [twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> There may be such an event system in FireMonkey, don't actually > know. It seems Embarcadero bought KSDev earlier this year: http://www.ksdev.com/ and the feature page of VGScene may provide some hints about the capabilies of FireMonkey, although Embarcadero may have changed everything! ht

Re: [twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> I don't understand why Embarcado should not use a similar approach and > includes a cross-platform event-system wrapper in FireMonkey. It > would make the life easier not only for ICS developers, I suppose. There may be such an event system in FireMonkey, don't actually know. But supporting IC

Re: [twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Tobias Rapp
Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: > ICS does not currently support FireMonkey or Mac OS-X, it needs a lot of > work since Linux is not event driven like Windows, and makes use of > threads to prevent blocking. ICS did support Kylix for Linux several > years ago, so some work has been do

[twsocket] ICS and Delphi XE2

2011-08-03 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
Embarcadero recently announced that RAD Studio XE2 will be launched in the next few weeks, the main XE2 information page is currently: http://www.embarcadero.com/world-tour The NDA on vendors has been relaxed so we can now talk about some new XE2 features and components for XE2. This note briefl