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Do i need to upgrade ?

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 4:11 pm
by thefunkyjoint
Hello,

I develop Windows Desktop apps and use the CEF4Delphi inside it.

Currently all my code is based on Delphi 2007, a very old version. But i wonder what benefits i could have by upgrading to a recent Delphi version (which is not cheap). Does CEF4Delphi will benefit in any way by compiling my app with newer Delphi versions ?

Thanks

Re: Do i need to upgrade ?

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:08 pm
by salvadordf
With old Delphi versions you may see some string conversion warnings and some demos might have some unicode issues.

If you upgrade to the latest Delphi version you will be able to use FireMonkey (FMX) apps and you will be able to use CEF4Delphi with FMX apps but only in Windows.

Unless you need to create FMX apps for Windows with CEF4Delphi or you found some unicode related bug while using CEF4Delphi, you shouldn't add CEF4Delphi to the list of "reasons to upgrade Delphi".

Re: Do i need to upgrade ?

Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2018 5:11 pm
by salvadordf
I forgot...

Some really old Delphi versions can't use the RTTI features in the JSRTTIExtension demo but you can do the same with the other JavaScript demos.
I also had to disable the string decoding functions in the ResponseFilterBrowser demo when you use old Delphi versions.

Re: Do i need to upgrade ?

Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2018 5:06 pm
by thefunkyjoint
Thank you for the explanation :)