On Friday, 4 February 2011, Zelimir Ikovic <> wrote: > It doesnot have to be full conversion but at least some help! > I have 20000 lines VB6 program and I am not sure how to start. > Just write all lines again line by line, function by function etc
We had to make the same decision a few years back. One of our VB6 apps was around 300,000 lines of code. We decided to rather rewrite to app from scratch using Free Pascal. This gave us the opportunity the learn from our previous mistakes, do a great design by using true OOP techniques, Design Patterns and a Object Persistent Framework (tiOPF in fact). Our new version of the product is now very flexible (easy to add new features, supports multiple db backends etc.), true cross platform and a very clean design...plus a lot faster than the VB6 counterpart. So I would highly recommend a rewrite manually. It is well known fact that your second or third attempt at a software product is ALWAYS better that the first. -- Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://fpgui.sourceforge.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
