Hi Graeme/David,
> Any comments on the status of tiOPF3? I know you guys work on a
> non-public repository, so maybe tiOPF3 has improved already compared
> to what is available on SourceForge?
>
We've been using tiOPF3 with Delphi 2010 for about 18 months. We plan to
start using Delphi XE soon and do not believe there will need to be any
major changes required to tiOPF to support it.
The tiOPF3 in SourceForge is virtually identical to what we have offline.
It is up to date and production ready. It supports the Unicode string type
but does not fully support Unicode. There are a couple of places where ASCII
content within the Unicode strings is assumed and therefore you are likely
to encounter some issues if you need 16-bit characters or localization. If
you only use 8-bit ASCII characters, like you most likely would have if
coming from D2007 or earlier, then you will be fine.
Originally we decided that when tiOPF3 was created to support Unicode it was
only going to support D2010 and later (the most recent release at the time)
to allow us to take advantage of the new RTTI, attributes and possibly other
enhancements. We jumped from Delphi 2007 to Delphi 2010, skipping Delphi
2009. To date these language and VCL/RTL enhancements have not been used
and we assumed that tiOPF3 would also work in D2009. I see that the change
from TThread.Resume to TThread.Start was introduced in D2010, hence the
problems that you have encountered getting it to compile in D2009.
Apart from TThread.Start I don't think that you will currently encounter
many other issues getting tiOPF3 to work with D2009. If you can submit
patches that IFDEF around the code then we can apply them to the official
repository.
Regards,
Jarrod Hollingworth
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