[DUG] D2007 to XE2 conversion notes

[John Bird]

Installation was easy, downloading the files and installing and then it offering to download the update 3 took quite most of the time – about an hour each.

Installing a few components was easy – FindFile  HAHFindFile and QProgressBar and TurboPower Abbrevia (the last from Sourceforge has a XE2 source complete with all files needed to build and worked exactly as the installation instructions.   About 30-60 minutes all up and I done.

A common  library file of mine has several issues to resolve with string handling –  still sorting that.so haven’t built anything large yet.

Otherwise  effortless so far:
eg:

a search program I wrote compiles and runs unaltered just slightly slower, eg 7.1 secs as compared to D2007 version at 6.8 sec – acceptable seeing as its converting every line internally to Unicode strings as it reads files.

But I do have one question!

Why has the executable gone from 527K to 1.5MB?   What is all the extra stuff in it?   Its not runtime themes as I turned those off and it shrunk only by 200K to 1.3MB.   Nothing else in the project options looked unusual or that different.

(Program uses a FindFiles component (stringlist), a few stringlists, a stringgrid, 2 forms, a few edit boxes and checkboxes......nothing unusual so why now so much larger?)

John Bird
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