Re: Downgrading to D7

"Larry Maturo" <lmaturo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi Michael,

I am doing this to a program in Delphi 2006, and it is NOT with relatively
little work. :-) You have to touch every form.

You don't have to touch every form if you can accept having a patched
version of the VCL. After I had done that all I had to do was link in the
patched versions and include a few additional lines in the main form of each
of my apps. Admittedly. if you ship your app with runtime copies of the VCL
that would be of no use to you.

My approach was to use a combination of the excellent advice on Nathaniel's
site (referenced earlier) and the info included in the QC Vista bug reports.

There is even one problem
with no known solution, and to get the new dialogs you have to buy a
component from TMS. Admitedly, in D2007 you would have do the same
work for switching out the new dialogs for the old, but the dialogs
themselves
would be free. Also, this is only the message dialog replacement.

That is true. The problem with D2007, unless I am mistaken, is that if you
want the new dialogs you actually have to do the development on Vista. I
still develop on XP and only have to test my apps on Vista. I've made do
without the new dialogs so far.

There are no replacements for the file browswer dialogs that I know of.


What aspect of the file browser dialogs? A minor mod to the VCL (commenting
out about twenty lines of Dialogs.pas) results in the Vista-style file open
/ save dialogs on Vista. I'm not sure what the the disabled code was
originally intended to do. Maybe to allow customised file dialogs - but as I
don't have them that was not a concern.

--
Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp




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