I use the (good) Delphi Seattle that I bought many years ago, with GLScene for many years. Works well. As the prices of recent versions of Delphi became prohibitive for me, I am intending – as first action in 2022 – to convert my main engineering code to Lazarus. Then I ask to whom already did something like this the following.
A) I saw there is a button to convert Delphi code to Lazarus code. . When we do the conversion most of the lines work after or it will take a lot of time to do the adjustments ?
B) I asl the same for the Glscene part of the code (see the figure)
C) If the conversion is hard to do are there any converters – even not free ( anything is cheaper than Delphi)
Hi Sergio,
I myself have a licensed version of XE4 studio and use Delphi Common Edition 10.4, as well as trial version RAD 11 to upgrade GLS, but if you want to switch to Lazarus, it will be difficult to do - you need to transfer all forms and units back to the old code manually, although it is working. Check with the guys here - https://sourceforge.net/p/glscene/discussion/lazarus/thread/adbfbaca38/?limit=25#66f9 There is no converters as I know.
PW
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Hi Pavel . Very helpful comment. As I use only Delphi and I have that licensed version that is very expensive to update my intuition points to migrate Lazarus and to forget definitively Delphi . However, you are very experienced, and I will read your link and do a small conversion trial before deciding.
In the last 2 years I invested a lot of time converting my code to run in the Web (except the GLScene part). After a long time and many errors ,, I succeeded but, to be sincere, I thing I lost my time in something not so useful. It would be more useful if I could convert the GLScene part. But I decided not to invest more time.
After doing the conversion trial to Lazarus I will write my experience here
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I use the (good) Delphi Seattle that I bought many years ago, with GLScene for many years. Works well. As the prices of recent versions of Delphi became prohibitive for me, I am intending – as first action in 2022 – to convert my main engineering code to Lazarus. Then I ask to whom already did something like this the following.
A) I saw there is a button to convert Delphi code to Lazarus code. . When we do the conversion most of the lines work after or it will take a lot of time to do the adjustments ?
B) I asl the same for the Glscene part of the code (see the figure)
C) If the conversion is hard to do are there any converters – even not free ( anything is cheaper than Delphi)
Hi Sergio,
I myself have a licensed version of XE4 studio and use Delphi Common Edition 10.4, as well as trial version RAD 11 to upgrade GLS, but if you want to switch to Lazarus, it will be difficult to do - you need to transfer all forms and units back to the old code manually, although it is working. Check with the guys here - https://sourceforge.net/p/glscene/discussion/lazarus/thread/adbfbaca38/?limit=25#66f9 There is no converters as I know.
PW
Hi Pavel . Very helpful comment. As I use only Delphi and I have that licensed version that is very expensive to update my intuition points to migrate Lazarus and to forget definitively Delphi . However, you are very experienced, and I will read your link and do a small conversion trial before deciding.
In the last 2 years I invested a lot of time converting my code to run in the Web (except the GLScene part). After a long time and many errors ,, I succeeded but, to be sincere, I thing I lost my time in something not so useful. It would be more useful if I could convert the GLScene part. But I decided not to invest more time.
After doing the conversion trial to Lazarus I will write my experience here
I did this a few years ago, but it was an old Delphi 6 and old GLScene 1.0, so maybe not much help.
But here is a thread with a few of the issues I had to deal with: https://sourceforge.net/p/glscene/discussion/lazarus/thread/cc4be901/
Thank you very much Daniel. Very useful information. I imagine that will be les dificult nowadays