Re: Windows 95

Roman Kaßebaum wrote:
> 
> It is oleacc.pas used by actions.
> 
If you have D2006 pro or higher, can't you put some conditional code
into oleacc.pas that allows you to build an application that is Win95
compatible inside Delphi 2006?  Recompile oleacc.pas and place the DCU
file over the oleacc.dcu in the <BDS>\Lib\ directory wherever it goes.


Of course, you will have something that may *WORK* for you, but be
totally unsupported.

Incidentally, I think any customer that I've ever had running Win95
has been easily upgradeable to Win98SE. I have never had a customer
who can't upgrade to Win98SE. We simply put our foot down and say
"if you want to run our software, upgrade at least to Win98SE". We
don't support Windows ME, or Windows NT either.  That doesn't mean
our apps don't run on them, because they do. It just means we don't
have enough resources, or enough customers, to justify a VMWARE machine
for those customers, so we can do install testing and some other
testing on those platforms.

Personally, I find delphi apps on anything earlier than Windows 2000
to be a bit of a pain, because of the font rendering changes between
versions. Lots of forms that look well laid out on Windows 2000/XP
machines look like crap on Windows 98/ME; with or without whatever
options we set in TForm, there are serious issues. We try to make
it a little better, but really the Win9X family is extremely crappy
and extremely old technology and anybody who stays on it deserves
exactly what they get; unsupported stuff that may or may not work.

Warren


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