Re: RichView & Object Pascal

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Jon Burnham

Posted: 05/26/2002 3:41:27

Richview is excellent - Sergey is a very competent Delphi academic, the

support is brilliant - the only downside is that Sergey cannot clone himself

to accelerate the feature list <g> - but his code results in fewer problems

than alot of similar components that I have tried.

Jon

"TW" <[email protected]> wrote in message

> 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

> > 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?

> >