Geoff Worboys wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>> [...] So it looks like I am better off looking into Lazarus
>> and seeing what I can do with that. I don't 'need' Pascal I'm
>> probably one of the few people who never moved over to it,
>> staying with C++ ...
>
> I still do C++ work, just not VCL related. For VCL I use
> Delphi (and spend some hours each time I switch languages
> getting my commas, colons and semi-colons mixed up). I
> switched from BCB many years ago because of the amount of
> trouble it caused me (especially doing component development).
>
> It has been some time now, but the last time I looked at
> Lazarus it was far enough behind that the work it would have
> taken to get my components over to that environment meant
> that the upgrade price for Delphi turned out to look much
> more attractive. Hence I got D2010.
>
> You just have to pick where you pay the cost, because it's
> all going to cost you. :-(

You are not wrong ... but I'll have a play with pascaline first, that looks like
a tidy interface between Eclipse and FreePascal. All of my C++ code has been
managed via Eclipse for several years now, just using BCB6 to compile the end
result, so again I'm well off at a tangent already.

The main problem I have is that IBO has been the base for so long that I'm a
little stuck in my ways, but switching to something else completely different
may be the best way forward. The customers are now asking for 'android apps' and
similar annoyances when there is absolutely nothing wrong with a simple web page
for what they NEED :( And that IS working perfectly today ...

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