Delphi 1 project conversion
Peter von Gaza
BDE i think) to fix. It is a relatively simple record keeping program that
uses lots of DBF files. Evidently, the program worked for years and
recently has begun to drop records from specific DBF files.
Problem is that i program using Borland BCB and have little understanding of
delphi (or database programming if i'm honest). I was able to get the code
to compile in BCB 5 but not connected to the Database. My questions, as far
as i know them right now are:
1. What Delphi compiler should i use rebuild this program. I have Delphi 4.
Is this good enough, or should i purchase Delphi 7?
2 Should i or do i need to convert or upgrade the database files? Being a
relatively simple database program should i just keep working with the dbf
files?
Any suggestion would be appreciated.
Cheers, Peter
Bill Todd
On Fri, 2 May 2003 08:25:49 -0700, "Peter von Gaza"
<p...@yt.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Howdy, I've been given a legacy Delphi 1 database project (uses the original
>BDE i think) to fix. It is a relatively simple record keeping program that
>uses lots of DBF files. Evidently, the program worked for years and
>recently has begun to drop records from specific DBF files.
>
>Problem is that i program using Borland BCB and have little understanding of
>delphi (or database programming if i'm honest). I was able to get the code
>to compile in BCB 5 but not connected to the Database. My questions, as far
>as i know them right now are:
>
>1. What Delphi compiler should i use rebuild this program. I have Delphi 4.
>Is this good enough, or should i purchase Delphi 7?
D4 will do the job but getting support will be difficult, even hear,
for such an old version. I don't remember anything about D4 after all
this time.
>2 Should i or do i need to convert or upgrade the database files? Being a
>relatively simple database program should i just keep working with the dbf
>files?
I would unless there is some reason to change. I am not a dBase person
but there is no reason to change databases if the app works well
enough with dBase files. However, be aware that the BDE has been
deprecated. Borland will continue to ship it for some unknown period
of time but all development, updates and bug fixes have been stopped.
There is always the risk that the BDE will not run on some new version
of Windows at some time in the future. If that is a concern now might
be a good time to change to another database.
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Bill (TeamB)
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