Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-26 Thread Ross Levis
Peter Harrop wrote: > The thing is, I can program in Turbo Pascal as easy as writing an essay. I > presume it will be the same with Delphi with practice and experience. I'm a first time Windows programmer. I installed Delphi two weeks ago & I have a utility app almost complete with a nice prett

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Paul Lowman
Peter Peter Hyde is dead right - Delphi is so much fun I now find it a painful to go back to BP7. Paul Lowman Lowman Consulting Ltd. Embedded Systems & Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - D

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Hyde
Peter Harrop wrote: > The thing is, I can program in Turbo Pascal as easy as writing an > essay. I presume it will be the same with Delphi with practice and > experience. Peter. You Will Love It(tm). Run, do not walk, to your nearest Delphi compiler... cheers, peter ===

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Harrop
: Paul Lowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 12:37 Subject: Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road Peter Like you I have long been programming DOS apps in Turbo Pascal but also windows apps in Delphi. I STRONG

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Paul Lowman
Peter Like you I have long been programming DOS apps in Turbo Pascal but also windows apps in Delphi. I STRONGLY recommend getting your head around OOP as it makes life simpler,more predictable and much, much more fun. (Also reduces bugs and makes logical error much easier to find blah blah etc

RE: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Alan Rose
: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road Chris Reynolds wrote: > > Sorry Peter > > I know it is the wrong answer but you really have no choose except re-write > to get a reasonable windows app. > > My advice is, if you want a console app then stick with your 16-bit > executable. T

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-25 Thread Peter Harrop
Chris Reynolds wrote: > > Sorry Peter > > I know it is the wrong answer but you really have no choose except re-write > to get a reasonable windows app. > > My advice is, if you want a console app then stick with your 16-bit > executable. Thanks Nic and Chris, I'm just a bit worried that Windo

RE: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Reynolds
Peter Harrop Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 5:46 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road Hi, I'm new to this list. Starting about 12 years ago, I have what is now a very large VGA Dos commercial application created using Turbo Pascal. I have finally decid

Re: [DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-24 Thread Nic Wise
> 1) If I was to program in CONSOLE mode, would I have access to graphics > commands like LINE or RECTANGLE (or the Delphi equivalents) ? No, but you can manually open a window and draw on it. > 2) In Standard mode, do you need to keep strictly to an OBJECT style ? > It would make it easier if I

[DUG]: The Long and Winding Road

2001-06-24 Thread Peter Harrop
Hi, I'm new to this list. Starting about 12 years ago, I have what is now a very large VGA Dos commercial application created using Turbo Pascal. I have finally decided to bite a considerably well stocked bullet and have a look at converting it to Windows using Delphi 6, which I am in the process