Comments on: RAD Studio 2010 Review – Part 1: Top 10

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:31:08 +0000

Bah! …

Years ago we needed to edit a font with Macromedia Fontographer (RIP ?) and the program crashed immediately when we tried to open the font. Finally, because nothing else worked, we went to the humble path and asked the support. The solution was: Open WordPad. Write some text with that font. Close WordPad. Open Fontographer. Use it.

This means support.

By: Rhys Drummond

Rhys Drummond — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:19:21 +0000

Fantastic- thanks for that; sorted now. A thread discussing it is here:

https://forums.embarcadero.com/thread.jspa?messageID=183319

THe summary of this is, the include guards need to have the same name (+ “H”) as the file name. For example, for MyForm.h, the code guards need to

#ifndef MyFormH
#define MyFormH
…
#endif

If not, it won’t find or open the form. Go figure.

It worked for me.

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:39:08 +0000

They are very close to release an update for this. Go and make noise about your problem at http://forums.embarcadero.com – seek for a BCB group and ask there. Or, if you want, you can contact David Dean directly.

By: Rhys Drummond

Rhys Drummond — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:31:52 +0000

I really wish there was another helpful response to this. The same thing is happening to me, from a BCB6 project. The strange this is that the form in question was opening just fine a few minutes ago, and I didn’t change it; it’s just now it doesn’t display. It’s a blocker for me.

Codegear guys- is there a fix or workaround for this?

Thanks.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:41:00 +0000

I just got RAD 2010 and opened up C++Builder using a BDS 2006 project. The first really obvious thing is that I can’t open many of my .dfm files. Some open, but most won’t. There is no ‘Design’ tab showing for them and if you right-click on the .dfm file in the File window in the IDE and select Open, nothing happens. If you open from Win Explorer, the file opens as text but won’t show as a Form. NOT GREAT! In fact a disaster. Anyone can help?

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:13:43 +0000

AFAIS it is the same with the one from D2009. However there is a new ‘Import WDSL…’ menu item there which pops up a Wizard… hmmm….

By: edomaldo

edomaldo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:11:32 +0000

what about vcl for the web (Intraweb) in Rad Studio 2010? there will be atozed or embarcadero updates?

By: Alf Christophersen

Alf Christophersen — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:09:47 +0000

Maybe never reported, but, since using include files are supported ( $I }, it would be nice to also be able to see it in the file tree below the main source, like the .dfm file is today.

And, if you correct code in the main file, you need in D2006 to also open the include file to get it compiled.

By: Joe White

Joe White — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:58:04 +0000

> I assume that you are compiling in the same directory with both or that the output dir is the same. One may be locking a DCU or similar.

I’ve thought of that, but I’ve looked through Process Explorer’s list of the IDE’s open files when it was in this state, and haven’t seen any files from our source tree (except during a compile, of course).

> Filemon is your friend.

I’ve never used Filemon. Would it show different output than Process Explorer?

By: Brad WhitE

Brad WhitE — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:53:45 +0000

I assume that you are compiling in the same directory with both
or that the output dir is the same. One may be locking a DCU
or similar.
Filemon is your friend.
BTW, reading through the filemon output is a good way to see
if you need to optimize your lib path.

HTH,
Brad.

By: Tim Frost

Tim Frost — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:58:12 +0000

It’s only a small thing, but it would be really good to have a fix for QC 76131 in the next release. Many people may not notice the little yellow ‘Close’ hint pop up on the desktop after closing either Delphi or any application built with it. But after you become aware of this it gets extremely annoying. There’s a video in the QC attachment for unbelievers!

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:52:51 +0000

Yes, but “you never know” (TM)

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:52:05 +0000

Nick —
A wrong setting in the blog engine won’t let you nest a discussion more that three levels deep. Fixed. Just letting you know. Sorry, my fault.

By: gside

gside — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:48:09 +0000

seems like html parser doesn’t like my generic types, removed when posting
protected
function GetData : T
published
property MyData:TMyType read GetData ;

By: gside

gside — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:44:54 +0000

Regarding generics, will it be possible to use generic methods with properties?
i.e.
protected
function GetData: T
published
property MyData:TMyType read GetData;

By: Nick Hodges

Nick Hodges — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:12:21 +0000

Joe –

Can you send me an email?

nick.hodges@embarcadero.com

By: Joe White

Joe White — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:21:45 +0000

Nick, we’re using Delphi 2007, and yes, we are using msbuild to do the command-line compile.

But even if we were calling the command-line compiler directly, there’s no logical reason why we should be able to run it twice (with an IDE build in between) and get different results. That’s my point — it doesn’t work consistently, even with the exact same inputs every time. The IDE is doing something environmental to screw it up.

By: Nick Hodges

Nick Hodges — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:34:50 +0000

Joe –

First — what version of Delphi are we talking about?

If before D2007, then the command line compiler will have a different command line than the IDE does. After D2007, we use MSBuild, and you can do your command line builds /exactly/ the same way as the IDE. To do that, you don’t call the command line compiler, but instead, you go to the MSBuild enabled command line and call:

msbuild

If you call the command line compiler directly, you will almost always get a different result from the IDE unless you very carefully set up your CFG file to be /exactly/ like the IDE’s settings. That’s really hard to do.

Using msbuild from the command line, your builds will be /exactly/ the same.

Nick

By: Joe White

Joe White — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:16:56 +0000

Nick, have you ever used the command-line compiler? The situation I described happens every day, often multiple times.

Once it gets into this state, it doesn’t matter how many times we run the command-line compile, it fails every time. As soon as we recompile in the IDE (well, on rare occasions we have to do it twice), the next command-line compile works again. Exiting the IDE also seems to fix it. As I recall, a couple of times I managed to fix it by doing an End Process on the IDE.

*Something* is coupled. Something in the IDE is screwing up the command-line build. A config file change, a Registry entry, a loose mutex, a locked file — I don’t know what’s getting in the way, but they are not “completely independent”.

As for your claim of this being “impossible”, you’re welcome to visit our office and see for yourself.

By: Wings of Wind

Wings of Wind — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:39:04 +0000

No. The VCL applications which worked with D2009 will work with D2010. For D2007 and earlier you must be aware that D2009 / D2010 is Unicode and make some changes in your code. Which (after a personal experience) is _way_ easier to do that it sounds.