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Re: Delphi 12.x officially unsupported?
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.232Views0likes1CommentRe: Delphi 12.x officially unsupported?
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).196Views0likes3CommentsRe: Delphi 12.x officially unsupported?
Well, when I bought our 3 years support contract (2 years ago), we were on Delphi 10 and TestComplete was in line with the Delphi release strategy. Since then, Delphi has major releases (about each year) and the reasonable assumption is, that TestComplete does support them. This is what we pay the support contract for. But do not focus to much on Delphi. TC works with 12.x. The DevExpress support (and only for x64 has a problem). Must be something small and easy to reproduce with the standard demos of DevExpress. But it's a blocker for all our testing.70Views0likes2CommentsRe: Delphi 12.x officially unsupported?
well, Delphi 12.1 and 12.2 are just quality patches. But anyway, the problem is in the area of the DevExpress support. Tools like TestComplete have to adapt to the real world DevTool cycles and cannot block Dev Teams from upgrading (for that, BETA programs are available for 3rd party provides). But anyhow: If not Smartbear is able to maintain the TC-Delphi Pluggins anymore, then this area should be made opensource.259Views0likes0CommentsDelphi 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. We raised support case as your TestComplete is "under a running support" (case No 00678248). This case was answer by SmartBear: Thank you for reaching out to TestCompete support! Unfortunately, the issue is likely due to the lack of support for Delphi 12 and newer versions. We are now opening this community thread to find a solution for companies having invested into TestComplete and looking for a solution: Facts from our side: Delphi 12.1 was still fine. Our problem is only x64 specific in the combination of DevExpress/Ribbons/Delphi 12.2" We have a large investment into our TestCompete testing environment, which is now "worthless" due to a small error! Questions: Does the SmartBear support answer mean, that TestComplete has, without prior announcement, dropped Delphi out of the supported platforms? Is that possible while support contracts are running (e.g. we have a 3 year contract). Suggestion: As SmartBear obviously lacks of Delphi specific resources, could at least consider, to release the necessary pluggings (tc*.bpl files) as opensource in order to maintain them? with best regards, the gs-soft dev Team (www.gs-soft.com)543Views0likes16Comments