Re: The Difference is Obvious!


True, but (In my opinion) irrelevant.

It might be irrelevant if you're not a component vendor :-)

At the moment you're right.. But there's a strong reason for VCL
vendors to at least port what they ALREADY wrote to VCL.NET

There is **a** reason. How strong it is depends on how easy that would be, and what sales they might expect. Some sales <> enough sales.

but those are also usually nonvisual components which really
> could be replaced by any .NET component, not just a VCL.NET component.

Oh, that's not true either.

Also consider that if you port a non-visual VCL control to a .NET control, everything is different. The inheritance hierarchy is completely different, they use attributes, property editors are completely different, and if you have any of your own, expect more trouble. The list goes on. You probably end up rewriting large chunks of your component. Each and every one.

I'm referring mainly to UI components for VCL.NET>

They can be just as difficult, actually

I don't see why the same should not be true of a
majority of UI VCL components.

Well, try it :-) Take some source code for a decent sized component set and see how you get on. It's not as easy as you think.

Any component vendor has to consider whether the (probably considerable) effort is worthwhile or not. Unless the market for VCL.NET grows significantly (it is very, very small now), what would be the point, as far as a component vendor is concerned?


Cheers,
Jim Cooper

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