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    Problems with XE2 Installation

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    I tried to install 0.92 in  XE2.

     

    I followed the instruction but when it comes to buiding packages I don't see the Install menuitem after building (see Screenshot attached).

     

    So i cannot install packages.

     

    Note: For XE2 I used: uniGUI2012Group

     

    Which could be the reasons?

     

    Moreover I own TeeChart professional and i cannot build the chart packages. Is this issue addresses?

    Sencha Touch Support

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    The current only RAD solution for developing Touch web apps is currently using TMS iPhone components, the downsides:

    1) one needs to use VCL for the Web (Intraweb)

    2) those components work but cannot compete with Sencha Touch

     

    Personally I think that Sencha Touch support is more urgent for UniGUI compared to ExtJS 4. Both are welcome of course, but if I could vote I would go for Touch first (if one must be beofre the other).

     

    It is true that one can resize an uniGUI app to fit iPad or iPhone or anyother mobile device, but Sencha Touch is the tool to do the job, not Ext JS.

     

    Since ExtPascal must support ExtJS 4.0 and Sencha Touch before uniGUI can do it, are there any deadline?

     

    Of course I mean loose deadlines (I could say "Plans", but I prefer deadline).

     

    In ExpPascal forums last year there were rumors that by half 2011 there would be Touch support, now it's half 2011 and it is not there.

     

    May you give more info? ("will there be a Sencha Touch Support?", "if yes, may you give a range of dates"?)

    Migrating full existing applications (+ hello message)

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    While for some developers the VCL extensions seems to be unnecessary for others it is an invaluable plus. The fact is that whether you use it or not it provides an elegant design time experience. Without it you'd see a gray box instead of a DBGrid at design time.

     

    Yes sure, but my point is: until maintaining the VCL copy costs almost 0 it may be reasonable, but if the efforts for keeping it updated and working start to drain away resources from the web application part I would reconsider the approach.

    Moreover to have a very nice "VCL" experience one "must" use 3rd party components, and uniGUI is "doing this for the webpart" with Sencha components, while it relies on standard VCL for the win32 part.

     

    Anyway until it is an "intranet home made project" the dual UI makes sense, I would never give to one customer the dual GUI because he will say "but this is not a web application it is a kind of trick you used to create a web application out of a standard app". Customers often think like that and have no background for understanding that this is not true.

     

    Anyway my 2 cents, of course I am only 1 of the potential unigui customers.

     

    A very very very very very very interesting feature for unigui would be after the support of sencha touch is done (and I hope this is in less than 1 year) that somehow UniGui does what Phonegap does, so building native webapps. That would be a real cool unigui -> allowing Delphi develoeprs to create native apps for mobile devices without a line of objective C or javascript (and using cool IDE)

    Migrating full existing applications (+ hello message)

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    Hello to all, this is my first post on this new forum.

     

    Some months ago I tried unigui (0,82 probably) and was impressed by the ease of use.

     

    I immediately fell in love with the project, by the way I also wrote some emails to Farshad.

     

    I am very happy to see a very active Delphi related forum. The reason of this is clear: Delphi developers do need a simple and powerful tool for writing web applications.

     

    This post is a kind of "Hello everybody", but not only, I'd like also to explicitly ask if anyone is planing/is doing a full migration from a complex legacy client server application to unigui.

     

    Do you have experience on this? May you share it?

     

    Finally my opinion on dual GUI: in my opinion it is totally useless to have a VCL gui, as stated in many other places in the forum. It could make sense only in a super-rad scenario, when one needs to create desktop and web app in 3 clicks. I don't know how much realistic this is. It could make sense if theDelphi wordl was full of wonderful frameowrks for writing web apps, so this is the addaed plus of unigui, but... Where are those frameworks? So I would go web only. May be VCL is kept just because at design time is more convenient?

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