Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Nasty COM regression in XE2

David Heffernan found a nasty RTL bug in XE2 COM implementation.

Is COM broken in XE2, and how might I work around it?

I’ve found a workaround (see the link above), but it is ugly and this should really be fixed in the next XE2 update so please – vote on the QC #100414!

Update: XE2 Update 2 fixes the bug described above. Great response time from Embarcadero!

7 comments:

  1. It's David Heffernan, not Hefferman. But I have to admit that I needed some weeks to notice that myself.

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  2. @gabr Thanks for the publicity here. I've managed to workaround the problem in my codebase now thanks to your help. Regarding the spelling of names, I apologise for not being able to add all the diacritics in your name in the QC report but flippin' QC doesn't seem to like Unicode. Probably written with Delphi 7 ha ha!

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  3. Also, rep cap two days in a row entirely down to the votes on this answer. Great work!

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  4. Thanks for the feedback, I forward this problem to our R&D team and they will look in to that.

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    Andreano Lanusse
    Embarcadero Technologies

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  5. @Uwe, thanks for the warning, I must (blushingly) admit that I've never parsed David's surname correctly in my life. Ever. (Sorry, David!)

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  6. And the bug is already fixed (in Update 2)! Incredibly fast response from Embarcadero!

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  7. Great work at Embarcadero! Glad to see this one got fixed FAST.

    Warren

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