Re: RichView & Object Pascal

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TW

Posted: 05/22/2002 9:30:27

Hi, I'm Delphi-programmer since Delphi1

and IMO the richview source has high quality.

AFAIK, wpTools uses also a lot of pointer syntax,

richview does not. Additionally, the source contains

that much functionality which makes it a must-buy.

"Atul Vaidya" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag

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> Perhaps some current user of RichView could comment on how good the

> underlying codebase is.  I am currently working on a large project where

the

> text processing is being done with WPTools.  I bought the component

> originally because superficially it appears quite impressive.  However,

now

> that I have used it for a while and seen his source code I am positively

> apalled at the way it has been coded - 700 line 'methods', a complete

> incomprehension of Delphi exception handling usage, failure to understand

> the difference between a while loop & a for loop to mention just a few

> things.

>

> Superficially, RichView appears to be just as good if not better in terms

of

> the functionality it offers.  But what is it like under its skin?

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