Howard, Thank you for your comments, it will save me a lot of time and frustration, I hope.
Is there a book/tutorial that has some good info on using Delphi/Lazarus in an object oriented fashion for this type of project? -Mike On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Howard Page-Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:38:00 -0500 > "Michael Edwards" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am familiar with pascal and I became aware of a project (a mud >> client called Portal) that I use a fair bit that has been open >> sourced. It was written using Borland Delphi 4. It has some >> significant database components and currently uses whatever database >> borland uses by default (I think). I am not familiar with Delphi or >> Lazarus but I would like to take the code and make it more cross >> platform friendly since many of our users are Mac or Linux clients. >> >> Is this sort of project reasonable? Is Lazarus a good place to start >> with this given that I am a noob? > > Lazarus/FPC is definitely a better option for cross platform > development of Pascal based applications than the abandoned Kylix. > However, a quick look at the source code you pointed to makes me think > your ambitions will not be realised. It is definitely 'legacy' code > with no concessions to object oriented design at all. The main form has > over 80 global variables! "I am not familiar with Delphi" - so you > won't easily comprehend what is a large and complex Delphi application. > > While it may be open source, it depends on two commercial libraries from > Woll2Woll (Infopower and 1stClass). You would have to ask Woll2Woll if > these are still available (or supported) for Delphi 4. The Woll2Woll > routines (even if available for Delphi 4) would not be compatible with > FreePascal runtime database library routines. The databases are all > Paradox tables which are not going to port to Linux or Mac easily, if > at all. I would say it is a non-starter. Better to write your own game > from scratch using Lazarus/FPC (or whatever Pascal you are familiar > with) based on the best ideas in the source code and using a > contemporary open source database that is actively developed and > supported such as Firebird or one of the sql versions. > > Howard > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
