UT99.org | Unreal Tournament Community

It must still able compile in Delphi 7 after changes.

Just an idea from the top of my genius

"How about abstracting away the compiler part from the engine". Voila you have something like borland unrealscript!

Buggie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:14 am It must still able compile in Delphi 7 after changes.

May I ask why?

Delphi 7 is a +20 year old compiler and IDE, a lot have happened since then, both with the language and RTL/VCL especially given there's a free community edition available of a much more recent Delphi version.

---

The_Cowboy wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:21 am Just an idea from the top of my genius

"How about abstracting away the compiler part from the engine". Voila you have something like borland unrealscript!

I'm not sure I follow entirely?

My experience with modern delphi end badly. so I prefer to stick to worked solutions.

It is not possible?

Buggie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:01 pm My experience with modern delphi end badly. so I prefer to stick to worked solutions.

It is not possible?

I'm keen to hear what made it a bad experience?

From my POV - and given I work with the latest Delphi versions (New products and migrations of older products too), the benefits of using a modern version of Delphi and the VCL/RTL/FMX reduces the maintenance load significantly.
For instance, I already upgraded the DNF version of UMake to compile with Delphi 11 and in the same time shrunk the code base around 15% by using readily available built in RTL functionality rather than maintaining an implementation yourself.

It be very long time ago. Possible now it better. But I even now I use Delphi 7. Except crappy code editor it work ok for my small tasks.

Possible need make fork, and left Delphi 7 version alone. In new fork make all for some new version if it so good.

Buggie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:12 pm It be very long time ago. Possible now it better. But I even now I use Delphi 7. Except crappy code editor it work ok for my small tasks.

Possible need make fork, and left Delphi 7 version alone. In new fork make all for some new version if it so good.

There has been unstable releases in between, however the 10 series, and now 11 series have been rock solid, including many improvements to the code editor and code completion.
Dealing with unicode is also easier. I saw a different forum post here with someone who had problems handling UTF-16. This problem will also go away once the application is upgraded to a recent Delphi version.

I've forked the project already and will upgrade the project there

In fact it must support UTF-8 and UTF-16, distinguish them by BOM.

For test enough use in name non-ASCII chars I think. It out into log and this can be saved as UTF-16.

Buggie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 5:36 pm In fact it must support UTF-8 and UTF-16, distinguish them by BOM.

For test enough use in name non-ASCII chars I think. It out into log and this can be saved as UTF-16.

Excellent, thank you!

v1.2.3

* Support Unicode input (work with v469)
* Improved form size.
* Improve resize main compile window.

Update in first post: viewtopic.php?t=14044