[lazarus] Regarding "Proting the form editor"

[Sylvain Lamothe]

> Sebastian Guenther wrote:
> >
> > Oh, okay. I don't know Delphi 5 but I will try to get the demo version
> > running here within the next few days. Then I can check if the
> > conversion code works or not.
>
>  Michael A. Hess wrote:
> According to Jeff the output from the binary to text is the same as the
> current method of storage in Delphi 5 so it is a mute point. We can
> write some form of converter for Delphi 5 and then use the binary to
> text convert for older Delphi version so that it matches Delphi 5 format
> and then convert them as well. Seems like we are all set on the front.
>
I've been lurking for quite a while (since Megido) and i will give you
a hand with coding  after the holidays season. I'll get more free time then
and i hope i could get Linux hook on to the net by then and it will give me
the time to learn using the GTK.

In my opinion you don't need to do a converter for Delphi 5 since the
version 5 support both DFM format i.e. Text and Binary. In the environment
options
of Delphi 5 there's an option to for that purpose, so if someone want to
port his app
from Delphi 5 to Lazarus the only thing he has to do is to set the dfm
option to binary
and do a save all.

If you're interested, there's a freeware implementation with source in
delphi of the SAX
parser (Simple Api Xml).

     Sylvain