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Is there any information available for the next version ( 2011 ) of Delphi / cbuilder from Embarcadero?
Is there a link somewhere pointing to information related to the next Delphi / cbuilder, about when and what might be in it?
The best official word you will get is the road map, which was just published Sept 11th, 2009, by Michael Rozlog. There may be a new Road Map published soon, but until then, that is the best official word.
From what I understand (most of which is in that road map, or was from the Delphi Live! Labs sessions which you can catch the videos of on my site,) Delphi Project X (which I am assuming is going to be the next version, but it may not) is going to focus on cross platform compilation.
Version after that is I believe going to be Commodore, which is the 64 bit version.
There is also some functional programming and multi-threaded features that are going to be mixed in there someplace.
That road map, even though it is from September, is prior to the Weaver / 2010 release of Delphi, so I am expecting a new road map soon. That one should have a more clear view of what to be expected. Keep in mind that these are their goals, and they are subject to change as they go along. The further our the goal is, the more likely it is to change as things move forward.
As far as releases, they seem to like releasing in the fall. So in the September, October, November time frame next year. Of course that is all purely conjecture. Yadda, yadda, yadda. So don't make any plans on this.
This contains all the very long term plans:
"The Future of Delphi Looks Brighter Than Ever Before"
And this is a great Wings of Wind blog post commenting on that:
Newsflash: The Roadmap.
Now this would be your last option.Give it a look.
RAD Studio 2010, Delphi, C++Builder and Delphi Prism in the News
See some screenshots of D2011 at http://www.activedelphi.com.br/forum/viewtopic.php?t=54149&sid=2bf2c803da215eb29a4135e8c4dd829f
New info:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/40766
DELPHI HATER'S BLOG
Delphi and C++Builder Roadmap
Some new information can be found here:
Delphi 2011 and beyond: The Libraries Ahead
We know that VCL is tied to Win32 API,
hence there was a lot of speculation
about a presumable VCL 2.0 which will
be the cross-platform cousin of the
actual VCL. Such a library exists (is
in development) and will be delivered
alongside with VCL which will be kept
for Windows development. The team
called it VCLX in the newsgroups and
elsewhere – even if it seems that the
actual, release name will be different
;-) – and in the roadmap it is written
about it “Limited backward
compatibility”.
I remember reading a post on the official Embarcadero forums by Alen Bauer himself, saying that if they published any details about Delphi 2011, the sales of Delphi2010 would drop and Embarcadero would soon go bankrupt.
Now go figure...
The version after Delphi 2010 has been released it is now called Delphi XE.
Details of what was actually released can be found on Embarcadero's Website.
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I've been searching for anything about how to utilize the new additions in Windows 8 in a Delphi XE2 application. Although I know there's the new WinRT API, there has to be some resource of how to actually use it in Windows 8. It should be simple things, like how to customize how the start menu tile shows, etc. I'm sure someone's already taken the time to figure these things out, and I'm trying to find it. The best I could find is This, but no source code.
Any leads on this? I just need some guidelines to using the WinRT API for Windows 8 in Delphi XE2.
Delphi XE2 pre-dates Windows 8 as you know. Windows 8 is not even finalised and the new WinRT is radically different from Win32. There is no support for WinRT in XE2.
Anyone who is using Delphi to create WinRT apps is doing an awful lot of low level hacking. This is not a viable long term approach. Any code you may be able to produce this way will surely be thrown away when proper Delphi tooling arrives. So, in my view, you will have to wait for official Delphi support, or use the MS tools.
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Hello!
I know this message will annoy some people, but anyway...
Does anybody know if something is going on with 64bit Delphi?
Does Embarcadero or anybody else developing compiler for 64 bit computers?
Can we expect something in near future?
I looked arround and found very different information, but it would be good to know
to be prepared when everybody will start using 64 bit computers.
Any information will be much appreciated.
Petra.
If you're willing to give up dependence on the VCL, FPC and Lazarus can build 64-bit code.
The official statement for 64-Bit is here: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/39174
In short: 64-Bit requires many changes to the compiler and they are working on it.
Officially, information about future editions of Delphi and C++ Builder is presented in "Roadmaps". The latest Roadmap can be found here:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/39934
This is a slide from the presentation:
(source: embarcadero.com)
"64 bit computers" run current 32bit Delphi executables just fine.
Some people need 64bit executables to access more memory and/or to write drivers, but in my opinion most people don't need 64bit Delphi.
As Andreas pointed out, the most recent word is that they're planning on having a 64-bit compiler in the next preview. With so much to be done, I wouldn't be surprised if the beta cycle for it started real soon, maybe even before the new year.
Keep checking the forums and the Embarcadero blogs (DelphiFeeds.com is a good place to keep abreast of all the news) and you'll probably hear about it starting soon enough. Sign up for the beta and you'll get a chance to test out the 64-bit Delphi system and provide feedback that may even shape the development of the product.
I'm moving a project from D7 to D2010 (and from XP to Win 7). I use a freeware video component to bring in video from a webcam (Video for Windows) and take a snapshot. Before I look to port this to 2010, I was wondering if anyone knew of a cheap video component that is 2010 compatible?
You may be looking for the component sets from mitov.com there are three component sets that might be interesting for you: BasicVideo, VideoLab and VisionLab. Which is the right for you (if any) I will leave up to you to judge. I have to admit though that I've never tried any of them, nor any of the other components from mitov. But it is the components that I could find matching your requirements the most.
Edit: One thing I forgot to mention, the components are free for none commercial use:
VisionLab is fully functional and free for non commercial purposes! This means that you can use it for your personal non commercial needs, for fun, hobby, or evaluation purposes. You can also use it free for study and even teaching. If you are teacher currently you also will not need a commercial license. In the future however a special low cost tutor license will be introduced. For students the product is absolutely free!
All though the quote is from the vision lab page, it says the same about the other components I mentioned.
DSPack (wich is freeware) has already been ported to D2009/10 ( http://www.songbeamer.com/delphi/ )
Although a nice framework, the mitov products are a bit of an overkill if one just wants to take snapshots from webcams ..
I would go for DSPack
It's almost a year ago that I asked this question on SO:
Menu Accelerator Keys Not Showing Up (Delphi 2009)
The Delphi programmers here at StackOverflow were superb with their answers, and within 16 hours, I was able to conclude that this was a bug in the VCL of Delphi 2009 that was not there in Delphi 4.
So at that time I reported it on Embarcadero's Quality Central, Report # 68816 with the title: "Menu Accelerator Keys Not Showing Up".
I gave it a Severity of "Serious / Highly visible problem", and I think I was detailed in the description, even giving a link back to the StackOverflow question where they could get more info and screen shots.
It was noticed by someone at Embarcadero about two and a half weeks later, and under the Resolution Comments the comment added was that it was "Promoted to internal database".
I'm not sure what the "internal database" is - probably a bug repository - but that does not tell me at all what the status of my bug report is, since it is now over 10 months later and there is no indication of any progress happening at all. The status of the question is still "open" and its resolution is still listed as "None".
I would like to elevate the urgency of this bug report somehow. How can I do this?
The bug is marked "High" in the internal database. There are two higher priority settings for bugs - Must Fix (roughly, should be fixed for next release) and WUpdate (should be fixed for next update) - so it appears that in the judgement of the QA folks for the VCL, there are higher priority bugs.
Even though I'm an employee, I'm on the development side, so I generally don't deal with customer service requests directly. Probably the best way of raising the bug's priority is having lots of people vote on it, and generally convincing the product area community beta tester leads to include it in their highest priority bug lists.
First to help you: Till this will get fixed, you can do an interceptor class. See here for details. Basically you must copy the Delphi 2009's unit in your directory and change the problematic part using the old source from Delphi 4 (if you have it) - a diff tool would help here - and/or by reading the Microsoft's documentation.
And to answer to the title of your question:
Make noise and hunt for votes in Embarcadero's forums: .non-technical & .qualitycentral are the most appropriate. But don't cross-post.
Provide a solution and include it in your report. (In the body - if is small - as attachment if is big)
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I'm looking for a pre-written component (w/source) for a Delphi project that I'm working on, to generate mind-maps / concept-maps similar to these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MindMeister_screenshot_OS_X.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:XMIND_2008_in_Windows_Vista.png
Any ideas?
As a former Delphi developer, I sympathize. It used to be that you could find a free component with source for just about anything. You probably know about the Delphi Super Page (my old go-to source for everything Delphi). I looked; no mind-mapping components, there. (Of course, the site has not been updated in about 2 years).
I do have a suggestion, though, but it's not optimal: StarUML was written in Delphi, and it contains custom components for creating UML diagrams. The source is available for download, and it seems to me that the UML primitives (boxes, lines, clouds and such) could be adapted to your purpose. The web site is http://staruml.sourceforge.net/en/.
I know it's not ideal, but at least you would not have to start from scratch.
Good luck!
You might want to have a look at TMS Software's Diagram Studio, not specifically a mind-mapping component but it does offer diagramming functionality in your delphi app. and a developer license does come with source code.
An other great source for Delphi component is torry.net. Searching there I found an interesting looking component: Drawing objects.
Steema Software has got a great component called TeeTree which seems to do everything. I'm not sure how much it costs (costs is the operative word)
We use it for making pie charts and reports but it seems to do everything, you can get compiled demo's off their site.
It's a VCL component.
I know Graphcis32 has been used to implement visio-like diagramming. On the 'applications'-page there is a link to MindVisualizer, prooving that it can be used for mindmaps too. Not an out-of-the-box solution though....
TMS Diagram Studio, as already mentioned, and DevExpress OrgChart or FlowChart may do the trick.
There is only one mind mapping component that I know of : MetaTree. It supports Delphi 5, 6, 7 and 2005 and comes with full source code.
Not exactly what you are looking for but it could be an option if you can't find a native VCL component.
Tree GX http://www.componentsource.com/products/treegx/index-gbp.html is a .NET mind map component with source code.
You could then use Hydra http://www.remobjects.com/product/?id={B6BD1030-F630-4DA8-9018-73C03265A0EF} from RemObects to host a WinForms control inside a Delphi application if going pure .Net is not an option.
Edit: the preview seems to showing the links ok, but when I submit the post they are all wrong so I've had to put the urls inline
Please try
http://www.delphiarea.com/products/simplegraph/
JVCL : Demo called
JvDesignerDemo