That was a long time ago. They had something in their contract which said that, and the reason you remember it was that there was a bit of a hullabaloo among the Delphi developers. Borland rethought it and decided it wasn't really necessary, and when they announced it at the conference everyone cheered. But since then (and it was several years ago) no one that I know of has created such an IDE, so I think it was a pretty safe decision. I've cc'ed my friend Marco Cantu who might have some other input or ideas about this. He knows Delphi better than anyone I know. With Kylix, you could have a nice cross-platform solution. *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/25/01 at 12:20 AM Christian Tismer wrote:
Christian Tismer wrote: ...
My proposal is to use Delphi, and build a tool with it which is like Delphi. The task would be just to write such an app, not too hard probably. Delphi is written in itself, as you know. I have already written some generic application with about 20 generic widgets, which are all configurable at runtime. And Delphi is able to produce .dfm files at runtime and to read them back in. It is so self-contained that it is somehow waiting to be stolen as a generic app framework. I'm wondering why nobody does it.
Maybe I should do this now.
Errhmm, can it be that exactly this is forbidden by Inprise? I somehow remember that I've read some statement that I may not use Delphi to code a Delphi-like IDE. Did I dream, or is it true?
anxiously - chris
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