D2005 PE : first impressions // editor bug, or ... ?
- From: airy <airy.magnien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 23:00:04 +0200
Hi
I have downloaded D2005 PE, French version, and even managed to get some libraries working (Graphics 32, then SDL - Software Development Lohninger - Suite 8.2 : highly recommended for scientific programming, by the way, and extremely well supported !)
Good news 0 : coming from D7A, I do not feel too "estranged". While some important features (refactoring) are missing from PE, the syntax highlighting, syntax error highlighting etc. are nice to have.
Good news 1 : the new compiler + inlining sped up one of my favourite apps by 18%. It is a Conway "life" game (heavy integer calculations). All I had to do was to set $INLINE AUTO. Nice. No, coooool. It is the first time I got a speed improvement since D3 at least. How about x586 instructions now ?
Good news 2 : D2005 PE has no database capability, BUT... the .Net framework brings some elementary (and not bad, I confess) components for simple tasks. Of course no native Win32 apps will work with that, but that's much better than nothing.
**** Now the Bad news Dept, and the Question ****
The "structure" view of the EDI (i.e. the view with the class trees, members etc.) is systematically BLANK. That makes D2005 PE IDE pretty awkward (slow) to use for any project significantly bigger than "Hello World". Is that on purpose, or is it a bug, or is it just my being incompetent ?
Thanks in advance for enlightenment
(and to Eric Grange for hinting at the availability of D2005 PE in French on the web...)
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