[DUG] When an old DCU's PAS etc is not available

Paul A Norman paul.a.norman at gmail.com
Fri Jan 27 11:51:49 NZDT 2006


I've found something that helps me identify what specific features I am
using in the legacy application that is from 3rd party. This helps me in
writing my own functions to replace reliance on the old components.

On 27/01/06, Paul A Norman <paul.a.norman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Kyley, its like the misdemeanors of our youth, it seemes a good
> idea at the time. But boy can you get landed with headaches later on!
>
>  On 26/01/06, Kyley Harris <kyleyharris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Well. I believe this situation is the exact reason why its a bad idea
> > to ever use 3rd party code without the full source ;)
> > I could recommend googling harder to find the author, but I don't know
> > what you are looking for.
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:
> > delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] *On Behalf Of *Paul A Norman
> > *Sent:* Thursday, 26 January 2006 11:29 p.m.
> > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > *Subject:* [DUG] When an old DCU's PAS etc is not available
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am sure that I saw something about this here once. I'm now using
> > Delphi 2005, and some 3rd party DCUs from Delphi 4 and so on days, no longer
> > have authors in existance in cyber space. I need to use these DCUs in moving
> > the projects to Delphi 2005.
> >
> > Where possible do I put the needed function calls etc into a DLL under
> > D4 and then use the DLL in D2005, or is there a better solution? What about
> > forms?
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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