Re: Going back to Delphi 7
- From: "Captain Jake" <jake[nospam]@jsnewsreader.com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 22:01:29 -0500
Pete Goodwin <pgoodwin.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> To many odd bugs in Delphi 2005, especially in the IDE.
>
> 1. It's slow to startup.
I see no difference in startup time between my DCM-limited Win32-only version
of D2005 and D7. But start-up time is irrelevant anyway unless you are always
having to restart D2005, in which case the problem then is not the startup
time but the stability. (I almost never have to restart D2005, so I'm just
pointing this out as a theoretical possibility.)
> 2. It's slow to shutdown, leaving a process eating 90% of CPU for
> several minutes.
I've seen D2005 take a long time to shutdown, but I've seen D7 blow up on
shutdown way more often. I prefer to see an IDE that takes a while to
shutdown than one that always blows up on shutdown and therefore loses any
changes I've made to the environment or project.
> 3. Menus, ActionLists etc. all disappear behind a GUI object. The only
> way to find them is via the Object TreeView.
I've never encountered this. In fact I've encountered the opposite (they are
always on top, like a system modal dialog). In any event, I wonder if that
happens if you run in undocked mode.
> 4. ActionList editor ends up behind the main editor.
See above.
> 5. No real improvement in debugging.
Interesting. I myself see a large improvement in debugging. In my
experience, in D7 it is not an infrequent event for the IDE to just die when
staring a debugging session. I rarely see that happen in D2005. In addition,
in D2005 I can see all the local variables at every level of the call stack,
for every thread. This is far better than the debugging experience I've had
in D7.
One big difference I saw in moving from D7 to D2005 was a large jump in the
minimum hardware set up that was practical. Seeing as your experience was far
worse than mine, I'm curious as to what kind of hardware setup in which you
are running D2005 and D7?
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