Understood. How about a "highlights package?"

Three features that would modernize the language and are not mentioned are:

1. local blocks and
2. local declarable variables, as in:

…code
BEGIN
VAR i: integer;
…code
…the scope for "i" ends here
END
…code

And:

3. Procedure/Function initialize and implementation sections should either change as the other is edited, or perhaps do away with two sections altogether (as in C#).

That said, my only concern in writing a TAnsiStringList with real ansi strings like the current string list is that I will not be able to descend from TStrings any longer, and loose the polymorphic behaviour that is so darn handy (x.assign(y) mostly) Interfaces of some sort might be the solution…

please support for cross platform, more advanced vcl data controls and firebird

.net… wt* is that ?;)

C Johnson — Writing the TAnsiStringList probably will be a piece of cake. With the inclusion in the RTL of the TEncoding class, you could create such a beast very easily.

Cobus — Sadly, we won’t be (and never have) made survey results public. The information is very valuable and highly proprietary — far too valuable to make public.

DelphiUser — agree, next time we’ll be a bit more explanatory about what terms mean.

Nick

The Virtual Machine question should have had "I’d use the remote debugger on a VM if I could get it to work", and the Auto-Update one should have "I would use it if UAC didn’t make it fail under Vista".

I was unsure with the technologies which terms meant what. A brief explanation would help.

For example: Iterators. Does that mean iterators as used in C#’s Generics?

They don’t seem to exist at all anymore, not as a PDF nor as a section in the Help. I refer to my D5 manuals when programming D2007 and try extrapolate.

I assumed this referred to a runtime type licensing and answered no.

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Great survey. Just a thought, I find it akward that Jedi VCS isn’t on the list of the SVCs. To my understanding it’s one of the simplest to setup and maybe the most integrated with Delphi IDE of all, so I figured it should be one of the most used for the Delphi community.

Best Regards,
Marco

Gonna be a pain to migrate some of it. I use a TStringList as a buffer for my custom socket… either data in the string, or a identifier for an object being streamed out (like a file or memory stream).. Guess I gotta write TAnsiStringList for that sooner than later.

For instance, while answering a question I accidentally clicked to go to the next question without fully answering the one I was at. Pressing back (as there is no PREVIOUS button!), would allow me to change/complete the answer but I noticed on pressing Next (or Continue or whatever it was!) that the next question would be skipped! That is, I still remembered what question I should be answering and instead I was taken to the "next" question as if I had not used Back…

You guys should really hire me for testing your stuff! I keep bumping into whatever rough edges you leave around!

This means that some of the questions I answered are not 100% correct. I recall suggesting a 1 dollar price for the Enterprise version, just because of that! I knew by then that it would be pointless to go back as I’d then skip another question.

Finally, a "question number X of Y" type of text would also help a bit. And that’s not to go the extra length and have a progress bar!

As for usability, you also missed the spot a bit: some questions had the "No/I don’t use" option at the start of the list, while others had it at the end of the list. And even others had not such option: it was implied that "No/I don’t use" would be not clicking anything! Confusing, especially when it was a series of questions about the same thing that I don’t actually use… Also, the lack of "No" option would mean that, should you accidentally click one of the radio buttons, there would be no turning back!

All in all, no big deal, but at least expect those rough edges to do some impact on the quality of the collected data.

Finally, it would be awesome if you guys could come clean with your users on the answers received with some nice bar charts to show what your user-base answered.

I’m allowed to not answer my age, but the company’s income question lacked the all important don’t want to answer/haven’t got the slightest clue option. Took a stab in the dark. Don’t be surprised if a lot of people decide to answer more than a billion as a obvious nonsense alternative - I certainly considered it.

Splitting the 100 was interesting, maybe I left out points or hit 125 on some, but probably not.

Took about 10 minutes, and it didn’t blow any cogs when I posted, so that’s handy.

Feel free to skip any of the questions that you don’t want to answer — not a problem.

Nick

Ahhh Codegear!