VC++ and Delphi in single project

[Yuriy Zabroda]

Imagine one thing: your boss said: VC6 is a very-very-very-incredibly-incredibly-incredibly hard tool to design graphical user interface for your project, so you MUST develop GUI part in Delphi only. Your thoughts and comments please...

[Shog9 0]

Uri Mellshior wrote: Your thoughts and comments please... Inform your boss that all the really cool programs are written in VB these days, and advise that you use it also. Draw the interface in VB, but write no code to actually make it work. Get a different job, one where they avoid taunting VC6... ---

But, oh god / Under the weight of life / Things seem / Brighter on the other side - David Matthews, Big Eyed Fish

[Joao Paulo Figueira]

Fire your boss... ;P

[Richard Melton]

He's wrong, but writing COM components for the Delphi app would be the way to go.

[Alvaro Mendez]

Wow, who knew that Delphi was still around? :-) Well, according to the Borland site[^], they're up to version 7, and it even "provides the migration path to Microsoft® .NET that developers have been waiting for." :omg: I guess it doesn't sound bad, unless you absolutely hate Object Pascal. What does your boss think of C# or .NET? Regards, Alvaro

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When birds fly in the right formation, they need only exert half the effort. Even in nature, teamwork results in collective laziness. -- despair.com

[Joseph Dempsey]

hehe, i feel your pain. i just recently took a job where I MUST write everything in Delphi. The language itself isn't all that bad and the GUI stuff is definitly a breeze. Major drawbacks are the really complicated API aren't support as easy and borland's VCL screwed with some controls they shouldn't have. In the end though you can still do most the same thing by just going down to the raw win32 api level and using messaging, overriding window procedures and such things. Borlands own IDE GUI is horrible and they should be short for developing such a peice of trash. My solution is spending what free time i get developming code in C/C++. :) As far as using them in the same project, well ... i know it CAN be done but probably shouldn't be to avoid some complication. As far as i know you can integrate the two but you have to use Borlands C++ IDE and libs instead of VC6. Their C++ editor sux just as bad as their delphi editor. I'm with the find new job thing though. i just took this job from one where i was working do machine control and advanced systems processing. This is a major downgrade in challenge and fun-factor. Oh well, gotta eat. Joseph Dempsey joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com "Software Engineering is a race between the programmers, trying to make bigger and better fool-proof software, and the universe trying to make bigger fools. So far the Universe in winning." --anonymous

[Ranjan Banerji]

Guess we work for the same company :-D except here it is VB. Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Chris Meech]

My deepest sympathies. BTW, you have an ass for a boss. Chris Meech "what makes CP different is the people and sense of community, things people will only discover if they join up and join in." Christian Graus Nov 14, 2002. "AAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! Those leaks are driving me crazy! How does one finds a memory leak in a garbage collected environment ??! Daniel Turini Nov. 2, 2002.

[Tomas Petricek]

Write it whole in VC++ and add about 1MB of garbage to resources... (The result will be same) i'm only pointer to myself

[Lost User]

Simple, tell him it is a technical decision and he is an idiot. Then duck :laugh: The tigress is here :-D