Re: Delphi? Futureproof re vb!
- From: "Kevin Provance" <casey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:19:24 -0500
Rick -
Does RealBasic have OCX support? By this I mean, can one create their own
components in OCX or DLL form and would I be able to use some other 3rd
party OCXs that I depend on?
- Kev
"Rick Rothstein (MVP - VB)" <rickNOSPAMnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:uiRek9OPIHA.5980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| Personally, I didn't like Delphi when I looked at it back in its Version 2
| or 3 days. I guess things could have changed, but the underlying Pascal
| language didn't "feel right" to me. I haven't looked at it recently, but I
| thought I heard they were moving toward a .NET implementation of Delphi,
| although I'm guessing they are remaining backward compatible with their
old
| syntax. If that is the case, I would expect most new books and tutorials
| would favor the .NET side of things over the older syntax side. Perhaps
| someone with current Delphi experience will be along to address these
| issues.
|
| As for me, when the day comes that VB6 is "no more", my preference will be
| for a product called REALbasic...
|
| http://www.realsoftware.com/products/realbasic/professional_edition.php
|
| There is a cheaper (less features) Standard version available too. Now,
| REALbasic is not completely syntax compatible with VB, so you will still
| have a learning curve, but there are a lot of nice (and considerably more)
| features built into it compared to VB. Just so you know, though, future
| upgrades are subscription based, so there is an on-going cost factor to
| consider. There is a trial version available if you want to get a feel for
| the product (their tutorial file will give you a decent overview).
|
| Rick
|
|
| "Suzy" <not@valid> wrote in message news:476020b4$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
| > Hi all
| >
| > I bought a book to see if there was some sense in "upgrading" to dot
net!
| > (assuming that newer is better). The book is the Dummies Guide to VB Net
| > Express. The book so far has about a fifth of the space taken up saying
in
| > effect what a retrograde step vb net is, thought up by programmers
| > thinking as programmers and not users, with the "help" even worse, and
| > that VB express is an attempt to "go back". About a twentieth of the
book
| > gives new (to me...) syntax, and the whole of the rest describes
| > programming concepts which are easy to understand (variables, loops etc)
| > and are in fact exactly as vb6. Apparently dot net express is an
attempt
| > by Microsoft to get back to the vb6 concept which they should never have
| > left!
| >
| > I am unwilling to ditch all I have learned about vb6, which I find
| > adequate for all I want to do, and at the same time it is obviously a
| > waste of time to get into dot net given that a) it is so uninstinctive
and
| > "up-themselves" (pardon this) programmer-orientated, by which I mean
| > "never mind the user"; let us revel in our own world", and b) who's to
say
| > that after making the effort I won't be marooned again by Microsoft as
| > they change platforms again?
| >
| > So, the alternative seems to be Delphi. Could anyone comment? Is the
| > similarity of Delphi to vb6 enough to allow easy transition? Will
| > Microsoft try to break the workability of Delphi with future Windoze
| > versions? Given that Vista is also apparently a disaster, I wonder if I
| > should ditch Microsoft entirely and go to say Red Hat?
| >
|
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