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Just a short note to say that QC Plus will no longer be updated. It has served its purpose for me personally and with a newer QC web service in the works and my diminished interest in the QC concept now is as good a time as any to cut the cord.

I’m told that the old API will be kept so you might still be able to use QC+ for years to come!

Source Code

Before I get people sending me emails about releasing the source code behind QC+ let me provide you with these excuses:

1. I wrote it because I’d never consumed a webservice before and I like to “learn by doing”. translation: some of the design may or may not be flawed.
2. It is still compiled under Delphi 2007 and surely no one is still using such an old IDE version, especially when the king of all versions (Delphi XE) was released last year. The XE icon should have been a crown…
3. It has over 1/2 a million lines of code in it, do you really want to sift through that. Plus I tend to swear in comments when I know code is private! Especially heavily threaded code.
4. It uses internal components that are not designed (translation: up to standard) for public consumption and I’m not interested in making them available (in any form).

Caveat: If you offer me a cheque with a large number of zero’s on it, I might be persuaded to change my mind!    (just kidding)

Thanks

I’d like to take the time to thank the users of QC+ for helping me improve the application and letting me know what they thought of it (the good and the bad).

Also a special thanks to John Kaster for answering my questions about QC.

Update Details

Currently a minor update is going through final testing.

• This update adds a filter bar to the UI of the Visual Forms window and allows you to filter displayed forms by type. Current filters available are Forms, DataModules and Frames.
• Auto update on save will now only update the form image if the designer is active in the IDE. This prevents the toggling that was previously occuring if just saving changes to the editor.

New SKU

Currently when you purchase Visual Forms, you get access to all IDE versions. The new SKU will give you access to your preferred IDE version. As long as your IDE version is Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010 or Delphi XE. Naturally this will also bring in a reduction in price.

JSDialog Pack

An update is also planned for release in the middle of March 2011.

Recent events had me recalling how I came into possession on my first version of Delphi…

My first version of Delphi (Delphi 2 Desktop* I believe) was purchased with winnings from a bingo (yeah believe that) night that I got dragged to when I lived in the US).

First application – Point of Sale for a Hallmark Store. I still have the code (somewhere – archived), and boy is it scary to look at!

Last application – Sonos components to create your own zone player. Once a little more progress has been made, I’ll release it as open source.

Strange how things turn out…

* Shortly afterwards I actually think I then had to purchase the developer edition to get more (or the) db stuff.