{"id":456,"date":"2009-08-06T10:22:05","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2009-08-06T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:22:05","slug":"weave-some-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/456\/","title":{"rendered":"Weave Some Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

I don’t think it’s “news” anymore that news of the Delphi (or RAD Studio) formerly known as “Weaver” is starting to appear “on the wires”. \u00a0I shall not add to the plethora of links to the links to the articles that link to the videos which you’ve no doubt seen already – you can find your way there on your own without my help. \u00a0Suffice for me to give my first impressions.<\/p>\n

Just to be clear, this is impressions of the news released so far, not based on actual “hands on” experience. \u00a0That said, it looks good. \u00a0Very good in fact,\u00a0although I\u2019m getting a bit fed up of my VS colleagues saying \u2018yeah, we\u2019ve had that since\u2026\u2019\u201d <\/span>LOL<\/p>\n

So, keeping things simple for a change lets quickly run down the headline features:<\/p>\n

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    \n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for the return of the old-style palette.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cBoo\u201d for the persistence of the nonsensical TLabel and TPanel icons.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for checkboxes on Boolean property values.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cBoo\u201d for not having applied that to the revised Project Options property sheets.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for thread debugging enhancements.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for \u201cIDE Insight\u201d \u2013 could be prettier though (but not worth Boo\u2019ing over)<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for custom debugger visualizations. <\/span>Nope, no \u201cBoo\u201d here either.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cYay\u201d for background compilation.<\/li>\n
  • \u201cBoo\u201d for being able to edit whilst compiling (hopefully that can be prevented, to avoid inadvertent cock-ups via some config option without disabling background compilation entirely)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    \n

    That’s a lot of “Yay” and not so much “Boo”, and the “Yay”s are bigger than the “Boo”s anyway.<\/p>\n

    I for one am looking forward to getting my hands on 2010 and taking it out for a road test myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

    I\u2019m also still hopeful that there\u2019s more to come in terms of news of new features that were mentioned at Delphi Live!. <\/span>Is it too much to hope that the extended RTTI and Tools API object model might have made it into Weaver, and that they\u2019re holding back on telling us about that yet…. ?<\/span><\/p>\n

    First the IDE news, then language and compiler\/RTL news\u2026 I hope\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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