| Title: | Borland Delphi conference |
| Moderator: | BROUGH::DAVIES |
| Created: | Tue Mar 12 1996 |
| Last Modified: | Fri May 30 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 33 |
| Total number of notes: | 110 |
Now that Borland have released C++ Builder all of us Delphi Pascal programmers can write C++ code ! Do we want to you ask. I'm not so sure I do but I have done some testing using some Delphi components I have written. They work perfectly from C++ !. Personally I think I will stick with Delphi. How there is no reason not to use both Delphi & C++ in a project. At the Recent Windows-97 show Borland was demoing a beta version of Delphi97. Very nice. Los of advances in the GUI like, intuitive typing of variable names. On a down side, I moved the PAradox application I developed a couple of years back onto a P133 with 40Mb of RAM. It really flies. There is probably no performance incentive to migrate the app (30+ forms) into Delphi. The user is very happy indeed. Stephen Davies
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| 26.1 | MARVIN::GOODWIN | Pete Goodwin | Fri May 02 1997 11:10 | 26 | |
I bought the standard version of C++Builder (I'm more interested in
Delphi) and found it a little shaky as a product.
The help files are rather massively broken. Lots of broken links etc.
Worse than the Delphi 2.0 product!
I found a couple of oddities with the product itself. My usual test for
a C/C++ compiler is to throw it some big packages:
* POVray, a public raytracer written in C
* PNG library
* JPEG library
With POVray, I couldn't build it with the IDE, I had to use command
line tools and avoid the VCL. It seems if you put the following lines
anywhere, you can get mysterious undefined macros etc.:
#include <vcl/vcl.h>
#pragma hdrstop
It looks as though the precompiled headers might be broken.
With both the PNG and JPEG libraries I got a wonderfully descriptive
'unknown error #1' which randomly came and went.
Pete.
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