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Delphi 5 fixes and known issues
VCL SECTION

Areas of concentration under: vcl

Area: vcl\core vcl classes

Reference Number: 47476
Status: Fixed in Delphi 5
Date Reported: 4/2/99
Severity: Commonly Encountered
Type: Minor Functionality Failure

Problem:

TApplication::MessageBox is declared to have 
"char *" arguments for the first two parameters, 
rather than "const char *" arguments.  This results 
in a type mismatch when I use a "const char *" 
value for those arguments.

Workaround:

In the Message Box call, const_cast < char* > 
(param)

Area: vcl\docking

Reference Number: 72009
Status: Open
Date Reported: 9/29/99
Severity: Serious
Type: Crash

Problem:

If you try to dock three panels onto another panel 
you will get a divide by zero exception.

Area: vcl\graphics

Reference Number: 62963
Status: Open
Date Reported: 6/25/99
Severity: Critical
Type: Basic Functionality Failure

Problem:

The Ticon does not support any non Win3.1 Icon. I 
meen HiColor Icons and Iconfiles with more than 
one Iconsize. If I try to save a 256 or HiColor bitmap 
as an Icon the the colors are redurced to 16 color 
and only one icon is saved.

Area: vcl\mdi support

Reference Number: 71079
Status: Open
Date Reported: 9/16/99
Severity: Infrequently Encountered
Type: Minor Functionality Failure

Problem:

Having a MenuItem set as a WindowMenu with a 
list of MDI Children on it during runtime.  The list 
disappears if any captions are changed (even if 
they aren't the captions of the list. They return if 
another child is added.

Area: vcl\system controls\tmediaplayer

Reference Number: 66506
Status: Open
Date Reported: 7/27/99
Severity: Infrequently Encountered
Type: Crash

Problem:

Trying to run an AVI file with a 100 character long 
filename completely crashes Win 95 only (works 
fine on WinNT).

Area: vcl\system controls\tmediaplayer

Reference Number: 70335
Status: Open
Date Reported: 9/5/99
Severity: Commonly Encountered
Type: Basic Functionality Failure

Problem:

The TMediaPlayer will not plave WAV files if the 
DeviceType is set to dtWaveAudio.

Area: vcl\win 32 controls\trichedit

Reference Number: 61859
Status: Open
Date Reported: 6/8/99
Severity: Critical
Type: Crash

Problem:

if CoInitializeEx is called with 
COINIT_MULTITHREADED OR the CoInitFlags 
has been set to  COINIT_MULTITHREADED and 
you have a form containing a richedit control the 
creation of the richedit control will fail.

Workaround:

If the user wants to use the RichEdit control in an 
multi-threaded OLE server, they can subclass the 
RichEdit, override CreateParams, and add 
ES_EX_NOCALLOLEINIT to the extended window 
style.

Area: vcl\win 32 controls\ttreeview

Reference Number: 46191
Status: Open
Date Reported: 2/19/99
Severity: Serious
Type: Basic Functionality Failure

Problem:

TreeView::StateImage property will not display the 
0th element in the TImageList.
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