How to translate Pascal to Delphi

Hi Hendrick,

Its been quite a few years since I played with Pascal in a college course elective.

Can't be much help to you I'm afraid.

-John

Hi John

The advantage of being a DEY fanatic (Do Everything Yourself) is that you get exactly the functionality you need from the software. The disadvantage is that once the program is running you don't upgrade or keep aware of newer developments.

When you get a new machine you suddenly realize that you became a dinosaur.

I bought a 1080 page book on Delphi maybe I can solve my impossible dream.

I am almost convinced that DOS and pre dos is better than Windows.

Hi Hendrick,

Like you, I'm definitely a DEY! A few years ago, I wrote a program (in C) to manage my personal shop; inventory, billing, profit & loss, etc. At the time OS2 libraries were popular and like others around the lab where I worked I incorporated many OS2 functions in my code.

Everything worked fine for several years and I would fix an occasional bug or glitch but no major problems. However! I got careless and failed to back up my hard drive. Wouldn't you know it, that's when my HD crashed! (I had copied the OS2 libraries, include files, etc. on to the HD then lost or misplaced the floppies).

Anyway, I had backup copies of my source code but couldn't compile it without the OS2 libs. Couldn't even find them on the web. So I just started over and rewrote everything in C++.

"I am almost convinced that DOS and pre dos is better than Windows."

In my lab I worked with and supported Unix. The saying around our shop was "Real programmers don't use menus" (refering to Administrator menu functions). Harr Harr! Gimmie that command line prompt and I can do anything. When Windows first came out, many programmers ridiculed it, and rightly so. it was pretty flakey at best.

-John