Delphi 12.x officially unsupported?
Hello TestComplete Team Recently we've faced a problem with TestComplete testing DevExpress Ribbon Control in Delphi x64 application using Delphi 12.2 + newest DevExpress V2024 1.5 / 16-AUG-2024. W...
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Well, I try again to make explain my view of the situation:
when we ordered a 3 year support contact in 2021, the TC support was Delphi 10.4 at the newest version. We used TC since 15 years and always the newest Delphi (+ 3rd parties) versions were supported. Now since 2021, no new versions of the Delphi are officially supported = a gap of 3 years!
Compare: https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-testing/desktop/delphi/about.html#General
To: https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Delphi_Release_Dates
Anyhow, I can understand that the small Delphi market is not of any interest for SmartBear. But there should be a solution for existing customers (under support contract)!
As a last solution I suggested, to make the TC plugins for Delphi opensource. It looks, as these plugins are BPL based and therefore can be debugged during a TC run (to trace down our x64 specific problem).
I remember writing a plugin, a very long time ago, and I haven't touched it since. I'm not sure if the SDK has been updated or still in use, but if you refer to https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/working-with/extending/custom-plugins.html you might be able to implement custom plugins to interact with your UI.
Thank you for the hint! Yes, we have been writing some own plugins as well. But starting to re-write the whole Delphi&DevExpress area + all tests, just to get rid on a single x64 error is too much😒. BTW: I assume that a mapping is pointing to a wrong integer type due to new NativeInt overloads.
You may have already checked this, but are you using TestComplete x64, against your Delphi x64 application?
Delphi may have updated the library files, and even though TestComplete doesn't support that particular version, it's now got to a point where it doesn't work at all. Unfortunately, there's not much that can be done. But I understand your frustration of not supporting latest versions of technologies.
