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2006-12-14 05:14:50 AM
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Andrue Cope [TeamB] wrote:
already been developed, i am going to have to maintain it and start
adding some new features.
RAD is great when you have a blank canvas.
What i need is a great tool to help me maintain the code...
Any recommendations?
Its a killer app!
Not a great deal of reading material on VCL either...
Can anyone give me the major differences of the VCL from version 1 to
version 5.
Im using C++ Builder 5.
Thanks.
 

"Herby" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
 

Duane Hebert wrote:
I have always used VS and MFC in the past...
So just trying to get grips now with the Borland IDE and VCL.
 

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"Herby" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >writes:
application. I've never used it for non-visual aspects, as I just
tend to prefer to write them by hand. In C++, there are lots of
libraries available that do not need non-visual VCL Components. In
Delphi, it's a different story.
newer stuff in windows, and takes advantage of newer features in the
Delphi language. The changes are both hard to see (as there is a lot
of interface compatibilty) yet extensive if you know what to look for.
But the details are too many and long for anyone to really cover in a
posting, and I know of no "changelog" to the VCL from version 1 to
present. I'd wager it'd be quite a long thing to read though!
--
Chris (TeamB);
 

BCB1 was 32bit and based on Delphi 2 VCL
there wasn't a BCB2
BCB3 was same as Delphi 3 etc. etc.
There wasn't a BCB 7 or 8 or 9
HTH Pete
"Chris Uzdavinis (TeamB)" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in
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"Pete Fraser" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >writes:
BCB version) so I was thinking in terms of Delphi 1.
--
Chris (TeamB);
 

"Herby" < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >wrote in message
it depends on what you plan to use for a gui on VS. It also
depends on how isolated your gui code is.
 

app, so would mean a rewrite. So its more getting to grips with
Borland and VCL for the forseeable future.
 

In article <4581e4fa$ XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, Duane Hebert wrote:
porting a *programmer* (himself) from VS to BCB.
I thought that had become clear ...
Cheers,
Daniel.
 

In article < XXXX@XXXXX.COM >, Chris Uzdavinis (TeamB)
wrote:
The trouble with RAD is that the easiest way to put a RAD tool together is
to write something that mixes the GUI elements and the data
representation/storage together in *exactly* the sorts of ways that all the
texts on OO and structured design tell us not to. The result is that the
RAD-generated code is really *REALLY* hard to maintain, when compared with
well-structured hand-generated code. I was appalled when I saw how this
effect tended to work in Delphi and BCB, but C# and WinForms is a whole
order of magnitude worse.
or 32-bit, but it certainly ran (only) on Windows ... Are you thinking of
TurboVision? That really wasn't even a direct forerunner of VCL.
Cheers,
Daniel.