[Lazarus] I am just wondering

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Zelimir Ikovic schrieb:
> Is there any VB6 to Lazarus translator, and how difficult would be to make one

VB is an OLE wrapper, closer to .NET than to Delphi (VCL) or Lazarus
(LCL). A converter may be feasable, to some degree, but the GUI won't
work with the LCL, so that a very new development environment would be
required (like for fpGUI or mseide...).

Some time ago I made an C to Pascal converter, that might be extended 
with VB syntax. But the final converter will be incapable of translating 
many VB constructs (OnError...).

Another chance would be a VB front-end for FPC, so that VB modules can 
be compiled without a transformation into Pascal before. Currently only 
an Oberon front-end is implemented, but the code generation has not been 
finished yet - it would require more support by the FPC developers, or a 
freeze to a specific FPC version, that can not be kept in sync with the 
FPC development.

And last no least there exists a fine tool for converting one language 
into another one: TextTransformer <http://www.texttransformer.com/>.
It can be used to transform both VB code and forms into .pas and .lfm 
files. The integrated debugger will be very helpful in the 
implementation and verification of the VB grammar.

I'm not yet sure about possible problems with importing declarations 
from other modules, regardless of which way you want to go.

DoDi