Re: Delphi Win32 2007and Windows Vista

sjors wrote:

> Since this discussion runs in the corridors here. Say I have D5
> programs, and I want to convert them to D2007 Win32. Can these
> programs run on Vista? 

Even D5 programs can run on Vista. They will just not be able to use
the new Vista UI features. D2007 has been enhanced with Vista
compatibility.

> Are there any limits to these programs. 

Vista is a limit in itself, regardless of what you program in <g>.
Installation requires admin rights, the access to folders etc. is much
more restricted than on older versions. Each user has its own set of
folders and requires elevated rights to write to folders outside his
home area. These special areas also existed on older Windows versions,
access to other places was just less restricted for "normal" user
accounts.

> think one of the main reasons we want Vista is that you can address
> more memory.

Actually nobody needs Vista but Microsoft <g>. More memory space is
only available in the 64 bit version, and 32 bit programs (D2007 does
not produce 64 bit programs) will not be able to take advantage of
that, at least not more than they already could on Win2003 server (3GB
user address space).

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Since this discussion runs in the corridors here. Say I have D5 programs, 
and I want to convert them to D2007 Win32. Can these programs run on Vista? 
Are there any limits to these programs. I think one of the main reasons we 
want Vista is that you can address more memory. But on the other hand Delphi 
will probably only be used for GUI, not compilcated calculation code. That 
will be called from the GUI.

Any ideas? Before we all switch to MicroSoft Visual Studio ;-) 

"sjors" <helpdesk@ingcarlease.nl> wrote in message 
news:47a1ace5$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Ah yes, sorry my mistake I did not explain it correctly. We want to
> use the 64 bit version of Vista to address 4GB of user address space
> for certain pictures and movies. So the old programs, just menu's and
> dialogs, could run under Vista 64 bits, but to address the 4GB they
> should call a module written for Vista 64 bits?

Why not use 64-bit XP instead?  Vista is such a pain for developers to 
support, is it really worth the hassle?


Gambit 

sjors wrote:

> 
> "Peter Below (TeamB)" <none@nomail.please> wrote
> 
> > Actually nobody needs Vista but Microsoft <g>. More memory space
is
> > only available in the 64 bit version
> 
> Ah yes, sorry my mistake I did not explain it correctly. We want to
> use the 64 bit version of Vista to address 4GB of user address space
> for certain pictures and movies. So the old programs, just menu's and
> dialogs, could run under Vista 64 bits, but to address the 4GB they
> should call a module written for Vista 64 bits?

I'm not sure if you can mix 32 and 64 bit code in a process...

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"Peter Below (TeamB)" <none@nomail.please> wrote

> Actually nobody needs Vista but Microsoft <g>. More memory space is
> only available in the 64 bit version

Ah yes, sorry my mistake I did not explain it correctly. We want to use the 
64 bit version of Vista to address 4GB of user address space for certain 
pictures and movies. So the old programs, just menu's and dialogs, could run 
under Vista 64 bits, but to address the 4GB they should call a module 
written for Vista 64 bits?