VCL Controls - 2019 Roadmap - Your Vote Counts

- please right-to-left in Ribbon and Backstage View is very important

- custom saved property for dock and cxgrid if want use StoreToStream and RestoreFromStream...

- custom position of new record (up or down of list)

add popupmenu same TPopupMenu out BarManager is very important

Please focus on VCL.

When you re-design the column/band customization dialog, would you please consider providing the option for the user to add their own bands, and to change the caption of the existing ones. Thank you.

Cool, one of my old requirements will come : (S135081) :-)

Wow. Checkbox next to a layout group caption! It’s been 13 years! Feels a bit like Christmas ;-)

Before I vote please someone tell me if Improved Performance (calculations/drawing) = DirectX or still the SLOW GDIP ? If it's slow GDIP+ i'll vote for FMX Grid.

Also you forgot about the SVG performance which is terrible!

no Acrylic but at least Hamburger View if i Vote for VCL.

Since your already have an Alpha/crippled ready of FMX Grid why you don't release it and progress it slowly ? I like to play to new things ....

IOW, build the FMX Grid with us.

(I promise i will not demand anything for FMX Grid for 2019 <g>)

Thank you

Please focus on VCL and SpreadSheet Component .. Closer MS Compatibility Feature List.

Please implement and combine Import/Export of RTF, XSLX, PDF, HTML and TXT at a central location.

That is my vote and thanks for deliving great code !

please focus on VCL

Suggestion: Add a way to digitally signing a PDF document like you have in your .NET suites

Please focus on VCL and can we get some love for "ExpressScheduler - Improved Performance (calculations/drawing)"

Conditional Formatting in ExpressPivotGrid, something about?

FMX, DevExpress controls pack in first release and Grid in next!

Why there is no PivotGrid improvement (calculation/drawing) ?

Please focus to vcl

Speaking of performance improvements, TdxLayoutControl needs attention.

VCL only please.

I'm good with sticking with the VCL as the #1 priority. I'd be more interested in paying for a CrossVCL add-on product.

Please focus on VCL!

Please focus on VCL. And like Jeff Weir I am also waiting for CrossVCL support because I urgently need to support Linux desktop, maybe for an additional reasonable price.

Nothing regarding Charts? Or Dashboards?

If DX focus on VCL we could have all those goodies like they have in .NET.

Going with FMX is a waste of time and resources.

Please focus on FMX

vcl vcl please.

please focus on VCL

Please focus on VCL.

FMX would be a good addition

VCL please.

We would use several VCL features.

Desktop styled TListView for FMX is highly required.

FMX is very important for me.

VCL with focus on performance!!! Thanks!

Please focus on VCL.

What is a likely release date for 19.1? I'd love to have the Office 2019 / 365 ExpressBar theme ASAP.

Please focus on VCL

I think that VCL is already good enough. Next step is FMX.

VCL

Besides the listed i would have also expected transactions support in server mode, however if the Entity Mapping Framework handles large datasets too with transaction support that would be cool.

VCL please!

VCL, only VCL!

I vote for more VCL charting options like .NET.

FMX is most important for me!

Please focus on VCL

Please focus on VCL

Love the road map framework. There are many features I will use. Moving forward I would love to see some devexpress speech components. Speech controlled VCL components could be the next big thing.

Please focus on VCL, thanks.

Whilst I am working with FMX, VCL is more important for the level of functionality that your product provides.  Please focus on VCL controls.

Please focus on VCL. Thanks.

I vote VCL

I really really want to see VCL Theme support using Embarcadero's skins/theming.   TMS, LMD, Raize and many other well know VCL packages support and not supporting, creates theming differences with applications that use both.

Please focus on VCL. Performance and beatification on Windows is priority!

Postpone FMX Grid features for 2020.

We need good FMX controls

Please focus on VCL.

I think VCL needs more attention but not in new features (except maybe treelist checkbox handling improvements). For me, the biggest concern is that for several years now, the components have grown to become more and more intertwined.  This makes using runtime libraries difficult. For example - i want to use grid in my app but must include layoutcontrol or i want to use picture edit then must include camera control. In the end, almost all of the VCL packages need to be included. Making for one slow and huge application. Proper modularization should be restored.

It was fine until around 2012.

I had to drop VCL, and I'm looking forward to having your components, especially Grid and ListView, ported to FMX. Thank you.

All heading in the right direction  FMX grid yes please

Vcl has more than enough support.

Please focus on fmx.

FMX is and always has been a bag of worms. It is not the way to do mobile.

Stick to VCL please.

VCL. By order of priority:

- Improved performances on LayoutControl in particular (design mode) and on calculation / drawing in general. Reduce the consumption of GDI objects (this is a big problem because of the limitation of Windows) ==> use Direct X !

- More graph types (like your .Net suite).

- The voice components are a good idea.

My vote goes to FMX. Time to deliver the same great experience you guys have brought to the VCL world to the moltiplatform world!

Please stop working on VCL completely and use all you're resources on porting everything to Firemonkey. No one is developing Windows only these days.

+1 to FMX support. Vcl is ok.

I'd love to have FMX

FMX

Please, focus on VCL and productivity improvements have already been long awaited. After Embarcadero has bought Sencha and FMSoft has released UniGui, it is more interesting for you to buy this company and add some own layer of Web Development.

Focus on FMX, nothing really good exists for FMX, so it's time to get something, especially since mobile devices  are an important market. For VCL we have already well working components, we can wait easily for the slight VCL improvements .

- Focus on VCL

- A VCL component to embed Chromium-based browsers in applications

- Focus on VCL

- A VCL component to embed Chromium-based browsers in applications

I voted FMX which is a big thing for us this year. VCL is still more important for us overall but DevExpress VCL is mature now and most of the proposed improvements are not really of interest to us (other than performance, read on...).

IMPORTANT NOTE: The VCL item I regarded as most important out of the 11 described (#5, ExpressBars - Improved Performance (calculations/drawing)) was NOT in the list of VCL features to select. The list of checkboxes only had 10 items in it...

I also agree with various other people above that LayoutControl performance needs more work.

Probably above both of these is the skinning engine. If there is any more performance which can be eked out of skins then please so as we definitely have more performance problems (drawing/resizing) since implementing skinning.

My vote goes to VCL.

Your team did amazing job within DevExpress VCL – continued improving that, it is definitely is one of the best products.

Having said that, there is a need for cross platform specially within Mac OS and Mobile devices – so if you add FMX components into your product list of DevExpress… you would increase the chance of having market place by 100%.

Looking FW to have FMX in your product list.

My suggestion is to add a search panel in ColumnsQuickCustomization asterisk that searches / filters the names of the columns in the combo where they are selected to show / hide, it would be very useful for the cases that appear to me where the views are composed of many columns and it is difficult for the user to find them to show / hide.

Thanks!

Please add FMX. Vcl line is already strong enough. Professinal controls for multiplatform is needed.

Thank you and all the best.

My vote goes to VCL.

For God's sake why isn't FireMonkey dead yet?

More VCL chart support, better handling of High DPI scaling and better SVG support, FMX grid.

Just want to note that this comparison is not really fair.

With the QGrid, you have a product that large numbers of developers (myself included) love and depend on.

With FMX, well ... what do we have there?

I hope enough QG developers are reasoned enough to see that cramming a few ancillary features into the already overflowing-with-features QG is not even in the same ballpark as putting DevExpress' name on an FMX grid

Vcl only please

I am moving to mobile, so FMX is my vote.  What you have to VCL is already great and meets all the needs I have.

I am moving to mobile, so FMX is my vote.  What you have to VCL is already great and meets all the needs I have.

Focus on FMX

Would it be right to say that the VCL market/FMX market is too small to expect feature parity with the .NET and DevExtreme (HTML/JS) suites? I realise different platforms have different capabilities but the problem now is that the other two have better features in many cases than the VCL versions and FMX has really poor controls, thus making the move away from Delphi VCL or FMX easier, reducing the number of people using it again, therefore I suspect reducing the amount of work DX can do each year, putting it further behind.

I wish you consider a dashboard Vcl component.

Please focus on VCL

I expect the release of FMX, but please continue with VCL if possible.

I expect the release of FMX, but please continue with VCL if possible.

I expect the release of FMX, but please continue with VCL if possible.

Another vote for VCL and performance from me.

I'd like to see VCL improved (especially the performance side of things being high priority on the list, but also improving other components such as spreadsheet, PDF, etc to be improved/enhanced to be more in line with the features/functions on your other platforms).

Since mobile is the future (or present), please release a FMX version.

And allocate enough resources to create a product that is on par with your other products.

I voted FMX as I want to see some quality FMX components, and if anyone can deliver them it's DevExpress!

To be honest, I'm not too bothered about a grid, yes it would be nice for osx, but grids don't really work on mobile so I'd sooner see you create an FMX scheduler, or barcode scanner, or camera component.

For VCL, I like the idea of being able to edit PDF files (I assume so users can complete PDF forms).  And I'd like to see some way of storing bar/grid layouts that allow new buttons/columns to be added without having to lose the user's customisations as seems to be the way at present.   I think there is also some room for improvement in the skinning library as by far the biggest support issue I get is EOutOfResources from deep within the skinning code.

But for me at least, the VCL offering is more than enough for my current needs, and I'd like to see what DevExpress can bring to FMX.

Vcl is locked into windows desktop platform

FMX is capable across all platforms desktop, Tablet and Phone, Windows, android and Apple devices

VCL is mature, FMX is still developing

FMX live bindings is a serious problem in my experience

I'd like to see better grid functionality for FMX so Grids and Pivot work at least for Desktop and tablet resolutions, Phone grids are not visually practical

Tough choice?

I'd like to see data aware grids, pivots, treelist/view for FMX

Improvements to the multiview hamburger style control in FMX

Availability of embedded databases like DBISAM (paradox replacement) and Nexus embedded available for FMX but this is not a devexpress problem. For small apps I use CDS tables at the moment for FMX as third party installed drivers or sql like databases are not required. Larger apps with significant data movement or server based support we've stayed with VCL and or asp.net for web

Vcl is locked into windows desktop platform

FMX is capable across all platforms desktop, Tablet and Phone, Windows, android and Apple devices

VCL is mature, FMX is still developing

FMX live bindings is a serious problem in my experience

I'd like to see better grid functionality for FMX so Grids and Pivot work at least for Desktop and tablet resolutions, Phone grids are not visually practical

Tough choice?

I'd like to see data aware grids, pivots, treelist/view for FMX

Improvements to the multiview hamburger style control in FMX

Availability of embedded databases like DBISAM (paradox replacement) and Nexus embedded available for FMX but this is not a devexpress problem. For small apps I use CDS tables at the moment for FMX as third party installed drivers or sql like databases are not required. Larger apps with significant data movement or server based support we've stayed with VCL and or asp.net for web

I think that VCL is already good enough. Next step is FMX.

There is no "5.ExpressBars - Improved Performance" item in VCL vote.

Another vote for VCL and performance from me.

I'd like to see VCL improved (especially the performance side of things being high priority on the list, but also improving other components such as spreadsheet, PDF, etc to be improved/enhanced to be more in line with the features/functions on your other platforms).

Please focus on VCL!

i vote for VCL with focus om performance (draw / Calc)

Please, Continue VCL programming and Introduce DevExpress for FMX it's urgent to have this components is FMX. It will boost Delphi development for mobile!

In our experience FMX is not mature enough for mobile development (at least for our needs), so I voted for VCL.

I would like to see the possibility to (automatically) fill in PDF form fields.

Please focus on VCL

VCL only!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

First FMX, Second VCL

Please focus on VCL and unify the handling/properties/events/behaviour between TcxGrid, TcxTreeList & TcxVerticalGrid.

Hello DevEx!

It would be good and important if the focus were on VCL. We only use Delphi in conjunction with VCL.

VCL 1st

FMX 1st

VCL is mature now, FMX should be the newest goal

Please focus on delivering FMX grid, with the idea of targeting desktop Windows, OSX and Linux (with FmxLinux) probably more important than the mobile platforms. Mobile could come later, as dealing with large or complex grids on a phone or tablet might not provide the best user experience...

I wish a dashboard  VCL component.

VCL first

Please focus on VCL :

- ExpressQuantumGrid - Improved Performance (calculations/drawing)

- Add a component to manage HTML text (HTMLPanel)

And after any FMX grid.....? If the Firemonkey version goes ahead is there a follow up roadmap for further work this century, or will VCL users have forgone some badly needed progress for a white elephant? If you have to ask the question, you don't have the resources.

VCL performance/draw is main goal - Ribbon, Grid and LayoutControl!

Focus on VCL

Please focus on VCL. cxgrid, and cxeditcontrols, DBlookupcontrols etc.

Please put more steam into PDF development: View & Edit PDF.

VCL is important for me, FMX is important for another user. Please focus together .. ;)

Please focus on any possible speed optimization on TcxGrid and TcxPivotGrid

VCL Please

Focus on Vcl.

PDF Viewer - Editing (populating/editing runtime fields)!!

Please focus on VCL

Focus on VCL

Great Work,

I hope to fix an issue when exporting to PDF the Arabic Characters does not display correctly.

Future is FMX

The VCL is so mature that what ever you add it is for very narrow specific cases IMHO.

One thing is missing though is some HTML controls instead of this useless RichTextFormat you keep pushing.

Even if used with a very low subset of HTML but is is very useful to format text in a readable way.

but I would go for FMX grid there are none as good as your grid, TMS is way inferior.

FMX is here to stay.....like it or not

FMX is very important for me

For those voting on VCL, keep in mind, that you can never overcome the VCL limitations. GDI(P) based context means the endresult is calculated through CPU instead of GPU and mixing of DirectX and GDI isn't really possible either. You can mix Direct2D and GDI, but this still won't yield the best results. Now that 4K screens are rising up, VCL will become slower and slower as more work is pushed to the CPU. While i agree FMX may need some additional love, there is no way around it, for the future.

My vote goes for VCL because there are some small things to finish in this year. I'm dying to have checkboxes in the title of layout groups.

FMX can be a focus target of the next year.

Fully agree on all the FMX comments.  But as you have a track record on VCL, your responses will of course (unfortunately) be biased anyway.  Hope you choose wisely ...

I 'voted' for still have a focus on VCL. FMX support for the Mac seems to be strongly dependent on the way OS/X 64-bit will be supported.

Please focus on VCL.

VCL please!

I'd like to target mobile devices in the future, but I won't be choosing FMX, instead I would choose a WebApp route.

My perfect scenario would be that DevExpress produce some sort of VCL/XAF/DevExtreme hybrid.

VCL ,more cool chart/diagram and functions like accumulate, or trend on selected series.

VCL please !!!

Grid with Memory Pagination, Dynamic loading

VCL please.

VCL, please, especially if the choice is between FMX grid, and all these VCL imrovements. VCL chart improvements would be great, I am really tired dealing with TeeCharts.  

Vcl Dashboard please

I cannot believe that we still talk about DevExpress FMX component. Why aren't they already here? Go full throttle on FMX and don't look back!

Unnecessary features.

Why is there no Dashboard and report designer?

Please care about VCL

I voted for VCL, because in 2019 we won't have anything to do with FireMonkey yet, but in general it's something we are interested in as well, so I hope that this survey is only meant for 2019 and as a general direction regarding FMX support. Long term I would love to see FMX grid etc. as well.

It would be great if we could have a FMX grid.

But, much more important for us is a faster data grid that can handle large data sets.

IMHO it is very important that the PivotGrid do not fall behind the QuantumGrid. It is very difficult to explain to end-users why some features are available in one but the other. So IMHO it will be important to add:

"Excel-inspired Filtering (v19.1)" should be mimiked in the PivotGrid.

Also the "Conditional Formatting Rules Manager Dialog" should have an analog in the PivotGrid.

TIA,

/Dany

I hope, that new bands/column customizations allow to set column visibility on band basis.

I have banded tables with 20 band and 20 column each. Its very difficult to choose columns in one 400 columns list. It would be nice to have "customize" button on each band header too, not only per view basis.

Both VCL and Firemonkey : I'm ready to pay more for that !

Imagine comparing DevExpress VCL to the most awesome car in the world.

They spent 20 years designing every feature to be perfect while listening and giving in to every single request that was presented to them along the way.

It seems impossible to make our dream car any better right ? This is the QUAN

Let's hop in and take a spin! This will be great!!!

We start it up and first thing we notice is the deep roar of the finely tuned engine just daring us to gas it so we punch the gas pedal. The car nearly leaps off the ground as the motor roars with anger and vengeance . As we accelerate our ambitions of conquering the roadmap we notice a cop ahead... Uh oh The only thing a cop will do is put us in front of the judge, right?

Checking to see how fast we are going we look down and wait a sec....

There's no f#@ing Dashboard ?? WTFH !!! After all this work we forgot to put a dash in???  

Screw it, We can get by, this is the baddest ride around! We got features on features so i think we can get by. SO naturally we have to make a quick exit before he decides to put his doughnut down. As we go to make a quick escape and make a turn we realize "son of a bi*&h there's no signals! And of course we just get clipped by another drivers and there goes our perfect paint.

The cop sees all this and now hes pissed and pulls out after us, but screw him this motor is

badass... We go to take off with everything it has built in then we realize....

With no dash there really isnt a good spot for these gauges. Just as quickly as we realize this

we run out of gas. Fuhhhk me he is pissed. He practically ran right up to the window and says son do you know how fast you were going?

We reply no, and try to use our good ol' famous trunk monkey. The trunk pops open and Monkey falls flat on his face because he's pretty much never done anything serious before.

After all he's just a monkey, barely a few years old. He cant survive in the business world so he sticks his finger up his *** and eats dessert first most of the time.

Cops sees what we tried to do and remembers those old trunk monkey commercials on youtube. Next thing you know he's pissed. With the same mercy our competition would show

us he pulls out his stick and proceeds to whip our ***.

After putting 10 years into this car we proved one thing to him today. We are no better off in

business than that stupid monkey. We can't tell anyone how fast we are going, how far we went

We gave no signals and put everyone who trusted us at risk. To make matters worse, we didn't finish our car because we thought the monkey just might be able to bail us out in the end...

Nope, epic fail. We probably should have finished the car and given the Monkey a little more time. If we had it sure would have been a good day.

With love - sometimes we need a push back in the right direction.

Sometimes we need a stupid story to point out the obvious so we don't keep putting it off and losing merit for all the work we've done in one wrong turn.

Just saying TICK TOCK

Please focus on VCL and overall software quality. More speed with large pivot grids would be nice to have. Thank you for your great software!

FMX grid will be great and a VCL Dashboard!

Please focus on VCL run time performance improvements. Docking, LayoutControl, Bars, Editors, Skinning. Every application needs it. But any moderately sized application seems slow on showing forms and resizing them. Also flickering is sometimes a problem.

BTW: There are a lot possibilities to make the application slow but only the perfect combination of settings (parentbackground, doublebuffered, etc.) makes it usable.

I have the feeling that resizing (e.g. setting size of a form) triggers a cascade of resize events and repaints until it's in its final position. Maybe that's a hot spot for optimization possibilities.

I would love a complete set of Devexpress FMX controls. I am sure they would be of excellent quality. However, there is already another FMX grid on the market that is v. robust, versatile and excellent performance. It also comes with a number of standalone editors allowing me to have a complete set of UI controls. Because of this, I would vote for VCL. I just dont think a grid alone is enough.

FMX grid will be great but now we live still in VCL world.

We vote for VCL: primarily Server mode Master detail grid and VCL Dashboard.

Or to duplicate sources and development capacity and do parallel VCL || FMX :)

In this forum it seems to be highly desirable (and profitable) both.

Whatever you do for WinForms, transfer to VCL... VCL is very important.  Please add Dashboard component...

I agree with Dany Marmur also.. PivotGrid +++

I want to support FMX

HTML Editor.

Please focus on VCL.

VCL!

Please focus on FMX and VCL, because

if we change to the TMS grid we will abandon DevExpress because it is difficult to maintain multiple sources for the same application.

Please focus on FMX.

It would be great if we could have a FMX grid for mobile Apps.

VCL!

ExpressNavBar - Hamburger View

Thanks

FMX is the way to go.

Spreadsheet filtering 🙌🏼

Only VCL

Android has overtaken windows. After 30 years of Windows development we must work with other platforms. Android first (and Apple ..).

We need FMX, unfortunately. (VCL is important, but FMX too)

Vcl component like QT: QWebEngine.

Chromium based VCL application.

Many pc softwares are developed in QT and Electron.

Only VCL and please, please make your components perform better. On 4k monitors and remote desktop the performance is terrible. From my point of view the bottleneck is GDI+ and the WinForms team was already able to overcome this by moving to DirectX. I think that is the best move to do, because a poor performance in a native application (where everybody expects a fluent experience) is killing for your VCL component set.

IMHO FMX can potentially beat any other existing crossplatform GUI solutions.

Especially if Embarcadero finally decide to make Firemonkey for Linux.

The only thing that still stops using FMX on the desktop is the lack of a modern set of components. TMS solutions are too buggy and do not look professional.

On the other hand, improving the speed of modern VCL controlls is also very important.

PivotGrid formatting

The VCL controls already are very already feature-rich and don't really seem to need much improvement beyond some possible modularization and performance tweaks - providing FMX controls (with a similar model to the existing VCL controls {cxGrid, most importantly} if possible) is most important to us

Please focus on FMX. Mobile Apps are very important.

VCL Dashboard!

VCL ExpressNavBar - Hamburger View

FMX Component

VCL Layout Performance - Most needed for me. Especially on high DPI Systems with scaling other than 100%

because most prefer improvements in vcl? simply because the devexpress stopped in time and took a long time to have something in the market for fmx, so who uses firemonkey, is already using other solutions like tms, which came out in front of years, so fmx - devexpress now has passed the time .

so focus on what you do best, bring the resources of .NET to vcl, there is much that is missing

Please more support for Right-to-Left

Based on survey results and Support Center feedback, we’ve finalized our 2019 VCL Roadmap. We want to thank you for your continued support and for your insightful comments.