It’s Delphi Survey time. You can take it here. I can assure you from personal experience that the results of the survey have a big impact on the future direction of the product, so please take the time to fill it out as completely as possible. I think it is only out for a limited time –until the 28th if my math is correct — so do it right now.
I was stunned to discover that Visual Studio Code didn’t syntax highlight *.pas files. Wow. So here’s a couple of things. First, vote here on UserVoice for this entry that asks for Object Pascal support. At that link I found this link, which is an unofficial project to add support. It seems to work – and I appreciate the effort from Wosi — but I find it ridiculous that VS Code doesn’t support Pascal out of the box.
Looks like the next release of Delphi is just around the corner, as they are starting to talk about it with hints about new features. So far I’ve seen:
You can sign up for a webinar that gives a sneak peak into the upcoming release. It’s called “See What’s Coming in Delphi, RAD Studio, and C++Builder” and it is at various times during the day of 02 September. Register now.
I attended the webinar about CodeSite and the Konopka Signature VCL controls and was very impressed. I knew the basics of CodeSite, but never really knew its full power. And I hadn’t looked at the VCL controls in a while, either. As I’ve said, Ray has forgotten more about good UI design than I’ll ever know, and his controls reflect that. A couple of things to note from the webinar and the Q&A:
Both CodeSite and the Konopka Signature controls will be sold as separate products and not ship as part of Delphi. The limited-but-still-very-useful CodeSite Express will continue to ship with Delphi, RAD Studio, and C++Builder.
CodeSite also has a .Net version, so if you are doing Net development, you can use can use it there as well. I like that Embarcadero is making a foray into the .Net world. Maybe I’ll get really smart on CodeSite and give a CodeSite for .Net presentation at our next Philly code camp.
It appears that Ray will continue to work on both products, but that wasn’t 100% clear.
The fate of Ray’s cool Radiant Shapes for FireMonkey wasn’t made entirely clear, but it was hinted that more news was coming on that front.
“Ray has forgotten more about good UI design than I’ll ever know, and his controls reflect that.” So the controls look bad? I don’t want controls where the designer forgot about good UI design.
Isn’t there any Konopka Signature VCL controls “MegaDemo” executable to download? I would prefer this instead of installing the trial components.
Peter — There was such a “megademo” in the presentation, and I think they said they’d make it available for download.
BTW, Nick — please add a Favicon to this website, so we can better recognize your site on web-browser tabs. Thank you!
“Ray has forgotten more about good UI design than I’ll ever know, and his controls reflect that.” So the controls look bad? I don’t want controls where the designer forgot about good UI design.
Isn’t there any Konopka Signature VCL controls “MegaDemo” executable to download? I would prefer this instead of installing the trial components.
Peter — There was such a “megademo” in the presentation, and I think they said they’d make it available for download.
BTW, Nick — please add a Favicon to this website, so we can better recognize your site on web-browser tabs. Thank you!