#FireMonkey will be #updated early, #often and regularly. Before the end of this month, and initially multiple updates per quarter, later once per quarter (Michael Swindell on the #Embarcadero Discussion Forums)
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/10
Quoting Michael Swindell:
Re: Will Firemonkey be updated outside of regular product updates?
Posted: Sep 8, 2011 5:11 PM in response to: David Schwartz
David Schwartz wrote:
The product matrix shows that Firemonkey currently supports iOS 4.2.
Apple will be introducing iOS 5 shortly.
Will Firemonkey be updated to support newer iOS features periodically (eg., iOS 5 and possibly other things)? Or just once-a-year when Delphi is updated?
Yes, since Firemonkey is 1.0 we’re going to be updating early, often, and regularly. The first update is well underway, will address a lot of great feedback, and should be out before the end of the month. We are planning updates on a regular cadence, initially several quarterly.
(I’d love to see quarterly updates.)
We’ll start out updating more often than quarterly, and settle into quarterly updates eventually. Embarcadero is behind FM in a big way, there is a lot of ongoing investment going on into this release, updates, performance enhancements, and future platform/feature support.
–jeroen
via Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Will Firemonkey be updated outside of ….
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LDS said
I’d like to see Delphi bugs fixed quarterly…
Carlos said
I would like to see it supporting Android asap.
jpluimers said
I’m sure many of us want that :)
–jeroen
Richard King said
I would like to upload the source as well. Is Google code a good spot or is there somewhere better for Delphi projects?
jpluimers said
There are many good places you can use, Google Code, SourceForge or CodePlex are good places for SVN. For distributed version control there are plenty places too.
–jeroen
Richard King said
This is good news even though I haven’t encountered any problems I couldn’t work around. Just spent an enjoyable day playing with Firemonkey 3D — not had so much fun since I was a kid!
The result of a day’s labour (most of my time was spent working out how to set the material properties correctly on dozens of meshes comprising the 3D model) is here:
http://www.filesonic.com/file/1925814124 (this is nearly a 3MB download)
(with a screenshot here http://www.filesonic.com/file/1925930034 – this is just 70KB)
The unzipped exe is over 30MB in size (the lunar module model is highly detailed and therefore quite large). You will need 7zip to unzip the exe from the downloaded file.
Double click the moon to change the lighting model from spot to point. There are no other user controls at the moment…
Feel free to use this in the rest of the XE2 World Tour presentations or at Delphi Live (I’d love to be there!).
Richard King
PS lunar module model obtained from http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/ and moon image obtained from NASA websites.
jpluimers said
Nice work, I wish both links would work, as here in Germany they don’t.
Any chance you can upload them to DropBox (use http://db.tt/6f95UJW to get you a DropBox account for free).
–jeroen
Sebastian Jänicke said
For me they worked fine. (Berlin, Germany)
jpluimers said
From home it works too. Strange.
–jeroen
Richard King said
Thanks Jeroen. (Sorry I thought the original post was by Michael Swindell).
I have uploaded the following files to my drop box account (I didn’t know it was so easy to share files). I think the filesonic site where I originally uploaded the files has some dodgy material and is probably blocked by many ISPs:
screenshot: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25800281/lemscreenshot.jpg
zipped exe: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25800281/lem.zip
zipped source: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25800281/lem_src.zip
Cheers, Richard
jpluimers said
Thanks! It’s easy, isn’t it?
–jeroen
Ken Randall said
Good news as it is little more tahn a toy now.