Re: Another Cross Platform Delphi Tought



Nobody needs to upgrade, you can stick with your old version if you like.
But you can also run both editons. I still remember Delphi 1 being deployed
with version 2 just because of architectural reasons (Win 3.11)

albert

"Jolyon Smith" <jsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schreef in bericht
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"Ron Grove" <rgrove@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unicode enabling the VCL without breaking everyone's
code is a much more difficult proposition.

In the next version, 'String', 'Char', and 'PChar' are being changed to
Unicode, and CodeGear is dropping support for Win9x/ME so that the VCL
can
now use Unicode-enabled APIs exclusively.

Yep, thereby breaking an enormous amount of code.

Not everyone's of course, and "Go Fish" will make for a great demo - as
ever - but still, for many people developing applications with no need
for Unicode, the approach heading their way is likely to make them think
twice about upgrading to D2008.

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