From time to time we get questions about using SmartInspect in combination with Delphi 5. There seem to be surprisingly many people who still use this particular version of Delphi. Delphi 5 was a nice release back then and it seems like a lot of people simply don’t feel the need to upgrade to a newer version or still use it for legacy applications.
Although we don’t officially support Delphi 5 with SmartInspect 2.x, we had a version of the SmartInspect Delphi library for SmartInspect 1.4 which runs fine with Delphi 5. This library doesn’t support some of the newer features of SmartInspect 2.x like Unicode (this is actually the main reason we don’t support Delphi 5 with SmartInspect 2.x because Delphi 5 lacks a lot of Unicode related functions), the Watches Graph, the backlog protocol feature and others. The good news is that the current Console version is fully backwards-compatible and can work with the data from older SmartInspect libraries. You thus still benefit from some of the new features like the marker functionality or the improved filtering and navigation capabilities even when using the old library.
So, if you need a logging solution for your Delphi 5 application, send us an email and we are happy to help you evaluate SmartInspect with Delphi 5.
SmartInspect for Delphi 5 (yes, Delphi 5!)
From time to time we get questions about using SmartInspect in combination with Delphi 5. There seem to be surprisingly many people who still use this particular version of Delphi. Delphi 5 was a nice release back then and it seems like a lot of people simply don’t feel the need to upgrade to a newer version or still use it for legacy applications.
Although we don’t officially support Delphi 5 with SmartInspect 2.x, we had a version of the SmartInspect Delphi library for SmartInspect 1.4 which runs fine with Delphi 5. This library doesn’t support some of the newer features of SmartInspect 2.x like Unicode (this is actually the main reason we don’t support Delphi 5 with SmartInspect 2.x because Delphi 5 lacks a lot of Unicode related functions), the Watches Graph, the backlog protocol feature and others. The good news is that the current Console version is fully backwards-compatible and can work with the data from older SmartInspect libraries. You thus still benefit from some of the new features like the marker functionality or the improved filtering and navigation capabilities even when using the old library.
So, if you need a logging solution for your Delphi 5 application, send us an email and we are happy to help you evaluate SmartInspect with Delphi 5.