Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007

We have several apps in Delphi 7, one com app in delphi 4.  We are looking
to upgrade them to somethng current/supported, ex Delphi 2007.   These would
be just win32 client apps, no web/dot.net  What is generally required to
move from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007?  Is this feasible. Is there any
information on what is required to upgrade.  Can the source code just be
imported and then adjust for de-supported functions etc?  Guess I was
looking for any gotcha's that people have run into. I am trying to come up
with a time estimae. I hear the IDE requires .net?

Thanks
Mike

Hi Mike

I have ported all my VCL stuff from D6 to D2007.  There was surprisingly
little problem, except . . . .
(this may not apply to D7) Any package that was touched by D2007 wouldnt
work any more in D6 - the problem was that it tried to include rtl,
vcl100.bpl etc instead of rtl60 etc.   I discovered - eventually - that it
was the {LIBSUFFIX '100'} directive that is added to the package.  Just
removing it didnt seem to get it working in D6 again, I had to set it to
{LIBSUFFIX ''}.  I had tried to isolate all the source code but existing
apps had some pointers to D6 stuff which caused the problem.
The big stopper that has caused me to abandon D2007 is the IDE help system
1.  Its unbelievably dreadful
2.  There is no way of including the .hlp files from existing component
suites

Regards
Paul

"AMY FETCHO" <mfetcho7@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> We have several apps in Delphi 7, one com app in delphi 4.  We are looking
> to upgrade them to somethng current/supported, ex Delphi 2007.   These
would
> be just win32 client apps, no web/dot.net  What is generally required to
> move from Delphi 7 to Delphi 2007?  Is this feasible. Is there any
> information on what is required to upgrade.  Can the source code just be
> imported and then adjust for de-supported functions etc?  Guess I was
> looking for any gotcha's that people have run into. I am trying to come up
> with a time estimae. I hear the IDE requires .net?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
>