Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007

[AMY FETCHO]

We have several apps in Delphi 7, one com app in delphi 4. We are looking
to upgrade them to somethng current/supported, ex Delphi 2007. These would
be just win32 client apps, no web/dot.net What is generally required to
move from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007? Is this feasible. Is there any
information on what is required to upgrade. Can the source code just be
imported and then adjust for de-supported functions etc? Guess I was
looking for any gotcha's that people have run into. I am trying to come up
with a time estimae. I hear the IDE requires .net?

Thanks
Mike

[AMY FETCHO]

[Paul Hope]

Hi Mike

I have ported all my VCL stuff from D6 to D2007. There was surprisingly
little problem, except . . . .
(this may not apply to D7) Any package that was touched by D2007 wouldnt
work any more in D6 - the problem was that it tried to include rtl,
vcl100.bpl etc instead of rtl60 etc. I discovered - eventually - that it
was the {LIBSUFFIX '100'} directive that is added to the package. Just
removing it didnt seem to get it working in D6 again, I had to set it to
{LIBSUFFIX ''}. I had tried to isolate all the source code but existing
apps had some pointers to D6 stuff which caused the problem.
The big stopper that has caused me to abandon D2007 is the IDE help system
1. Its unbelievably dreadful
2. There is no way of including the .hlp files from existing component
suites

Regards
Paul

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[David Cornelius]

From Delphi 7, you will have few problems. The main stumbling block
will be 3rd-party components. If you don't have any, then the upgrade
will be a breeze and the only problems you face will be learning curve
with the new IDE and making links to your old help files (like Paul
Hope said, it's dreadful--but getting better!).

Your comm app in Delphi 4 will be a bigger challenge. I don't do much
comm stuff and it's been a LOOONG time since I worked in Delphi 4, but
there were a few language changes after Delphi 5 you'll have to
address. And I'm pretty sure there have been changes in comm libraries
or components since Delphi 4. You might want to explain further what
you have so others can advise what you'll be up against.

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David Cornelius
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