Yes the port can be done but it will jest be a lot of work. I am turning all reports to reportman so that needs to be availeble on Lazarus. It now compiles in Delphi 7 and you can create plugins in Lazarus as we connect to Firebird. Do you have anny accounting skills ? Else writing a package is not adviced. I can realy do with people helping met cut the code in to modules so if theres anny takers :-0 That request was a bit odd from Philip it just shows his technical knowledge. I think osFinancials can oneday ron on Lazarus (that will be my end goal) its just not now. Theres mutch structuring to be done in the code to get a better reuseability. We do have a good solid accounting basis and do stock control and cash register systems. Theres links with osCommerce so you can import datat from the webshop and im currently building a plugin for Vtiger so CRM package can be used to get account details and sales (just like the webshop but for diverent markets). The client data gets used a lot so I will use this alternative I wrote to substitute that. Then we have the comercial components that still remain in code. The most work will probebly be the grid (info power) as the relay on the events that grid gives. I think redesiging them is the only option for this but it will be a hell of a job with big impact. I need to sigment the project and currently I use DLLs and fastmm4. Can Lazarus do the same ? The DLL routines can have strings lager then 255 like this
type TOSFMenuPlugin = function(AApplicationHandle: Thandle;AConnection:TZConnection; InProcessFile,OutProcessFile :PChar) : TModalresult ; stdcall ; InProcessFile and OutProcessFile can be larger than 255 This would be the only real problem if I cant call DLL's created with lazarus from a lazarus project. Met vriendelijke groet, Pieter Valentijn Delphidreams http://www.delphidreams.nl -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Michael Van Canneyt Verzonden: zaterdag 2 december 2006 14:02 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [lazarus] Gambas On Sat, 2 Dec 2006, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 12/1/06, Pieter Valentijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you say its all about marketing? > > I run a opensource Accounting project and I have the same problem > > try to > > Is that Accounting app written with Free Pascal/Lazarus? I am > considering (not sure if it is viable yet) writing a specialized > commercial accounting package in Lazarus. By viable, I don't mean > Lazarus, I mean do I have a market for an accounting package. > Accounting is a very cutthroat market. If it's about osFinancials (the former TurboCash): It was written using Delphi. Once there was a call for people to demonstrate the feasability of creating a Lazarus port, but I don't know what came from it (my guess is that this may be one of the things that caused the split from TurboCash and osFinancials?) I think it should be very possible to port it to lazarus. But as usual, time is probably the issue. Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
