IDE Fix Pack 5.8 for 2009-XE7 released
IDE Fix Pack 5.8 for 2009-XE7
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A new release of IDE Fix Pack for RAD Studio 2009-XE7 is available. The new version 5.8 is available for all versions including the versions that I marked “unsupported”. So all 2010, XE2-XE5 users can update from version 5.5 to 5.8 what gives them the “EditorLineEnd.ttr” patch.
This release brings a major performance improvement. If you have large packages with dependencies to other large packages, the compiler spends a lot of time in cleaning up the unit dependencies what can result in a long delay (up to 5 seconds) after you hit a syntax error in the active package project. IDE Fix Pack addresses this bottle neck and reduces the delay to less than half a second.
One of the RAD Studio 2009 .NET code patches in IDE Fix Pack caused the IDE to run into a NullReferenceException when started on Windows 8.1. This patch is now disabled if Windows 8.1 or newer is detected.
If you have copied the rlink32.dll from XE7 to an older RAD Studio version to bypass the “too many resources to handle” linker error, the IDE Fix Pack will now skip its own rlink32.dll patch as it isn’t necessary for XE7’s rlink32.dll.
Some people had problems with installing IDE Fix Pack because the installer is compiled against rtlXxx.bpl and vclXxx.bpl. And if those packages aren’t in the PATH environment variable the Installer failed with the usual standard Windows error message. To work around this issue and not to increase the IDE Fix Pack’s installer’s file size (I know, who cares), I have rewritten the installer in plain “old” WinAPI.
The new IDE Fix Pack changes the behavior of the [F6] (IDE Insight) key in XE5 and newer. If you press [F6] in the editor, IDE Fix Pack will now call “SelectAll” on the IDE Insight edit control so that you can overwrite the old edit text without doing the selection yourself.