[Lazarus] Challenge of converting a Delphi project

[Juha Manninen]

Mattias Gärtner wrote:
> Can you create a small example to reproduce the problem?

The open-button problem got solved but the others remain.

I made test projects to reproduce the TControl typecast error and the 
TRegistry save error. They both worked well so I can't reproduce.

TControl typecast problem is especially strange. During debugging I verified 
once the control was the MainForm itself. Still it created the same error.


> Maybe the program worked only by accident.

Yeah. The fact is that I compiled the original source with Delphi2009 and it 
didn't work either. It showed only a gray canvas. Binary download was built 
with Delphi6. It worked.


> A lot of files use windows codepages. Maybe the converter could try to  
> fix that automatically?

How does it show? I didn't see any problem regarding source codepages.

Regards,
Juha