This is a declaration of love!

Yes, this is a declaration of love. My box (Xerxes II) and I have fallen in
love with Delphi 2005.

I just finished my windows WordPad replacement project, and I would be
having a smoke right now if it wasn´t bad and unhealthy. I've been wringing
CoolPad through C++ (which I find nearly incomprehensible), and then Visual
Basic 6 (which I find uncombersome) and now Delphi 2005.

Before, when I fooled around with those other languages I just got
frustrated because there didn't seem to be any way to change the already
preset properties without massive workarounds. I may be wrong about that.
God alone knows I'm not a seat-of-the-pants coder any day. But when I
brought out Delphi it just clicked.

The ugly duckling that is the TRichEdit now can, without a single changed
line of code in the component, display full justification, sub- and
superscript, and can dazzle the user with all the background colours of the
rainbow.

And all it took was a few properties, a healthy doze of research into
TParaFormat2 and TCharFormat2 structures. A bit of type conversions here and
there, a bit of using the back door to the windows control, and now the ugly
duckling has become a beautiful swan.

I might have that smoke now, and not bother about the health. I just feel
good. I'm so in love. With Delphi 2005. I should have known better than to
fool around with those other languages.

And oh, hi everyone. :)


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