Delphi 10.4 Sydney - #Delphi104 - #ComingSoon

Hello, my friends!

Yes, I've got permission to blog about the upcoming new version of Delphi 10.4 Sydney!.

First I want to answer the most urgent question for all FMX-Mobile developers:

What about ARC?

It's gone, it's history, I hope I will never see any kind of ARC again!

Next on my list is Metal... No more OpenGL-(ES) on iOS.

It has a nice new feature: You can set your framerate, e.g. fix to 60FPS or only refresh the screen if something has changed. I haven't done any longterm tests with this setting, but I assume that this will expand your battery life.

With both - NO ARC and Metal my iOS app is flying! Not only by numbers, you really feel the new performance. 

The other thing: The new Managed Records - as Marco Cantu has already blogged about it. Please follow the link!

Why are these records so interesting? Well, I have a 34 years old huge app grown from TP to Delphi. In these App, we're using mostly records for everything. At the moment we can only use short-string. 

Why?

Imagine a record with an ansi- or unicode-string like:

TFoo = Record

  Name : Ansistring;

end;

Every procedure that want's to use a TFoo instance doing:

Procedure Bar(Var aFoo : TFoo);
var

  Buff : TFoo;
begin

  Buff := aFoo;

  aFoo.Name := 'Othername';

  //...
  aFoo := Buff;

end;

Because you only copy the reference of Name, changing aFoo.Name also changes Buff.Name. So the Buffer is not working at all!

With the new Records you have a copy method, where you can explicitly call Setlength to create a copy of the string.

The first time in history the migration from D2007 to 10.4 will saves a lot of work. We will see - still a long way.

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Happy coding with this #ComingSoon new Version of  #Delphi104!