I've only come across two apps I wanted to re-compile and both like
yours used StrPas from old code that provided the logged on username. I
simply took the code out and added a component from the Jvcl that provided
the same info and I was done! <g> I realize your problems are a lot more
varied, but if you switch to C# you're going to have to re-purchase all your
components anyway! It's a matter of money for time or money for purchase,
and if you can simply hold on for a year, porting only those components you
must, the third-party vendors are going to have to update their offerings
anyway. Besides, C# is so dam ugly!
from "Robert Meek" dba "Tangentals Design"
Creative Concepts Programming for Windows Vista
E-mail: ffo...@comcast.net
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so!"
[Bertrand Russell 1872-1970]
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From: delphi-talk-boun...@elists.org [mailto:delphi-talk-boun...@elists.org]
On Behalf Of Cameron Cole
Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 12:26 PM
To: Delphi-Talk Discussion List
Subject: Delphi 2009 and Strings
Borland may have made a change that will cause us to leave Delphi. The
change in strings is creating a near epic conversion for us. We use a lot
of third party controls and apparently it was pretty common to interchange
AnsiString with String as well as use functions like StrPas. So now we have
weeks of hacking through code casting, changing, etc. After our pilot
project to convert a small set of controls that normally would take about
ten minutes to upgrade to the latest Delphi over about three days. The boss
is asking if we would be better off spending that time and money converting
our client to C#. This could be the end for us using Delphi. Shame.
The big dumb question of the day is there any directive to turn off
UnicodeString or to force String to be defined the old way?
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