Quote: "YAY!!! another Fan BOY for PASCAL! LOL"
You bet!
Quote: "Yeah - and Freepascal would also do for the dll - and Lazarus GUI COULD be made to work gui ONLY if you have interprocess stuff going.. I THINK it needs to be the winmain owner. DELPHI might not be that way though, and might be better for leveraging DBPRO as is and adding GUI. Dunno."
You can place GUI elements on windows of your choice with both. Setting this up is not
that straight forward as with pure API but since all gadgets are nicely encapsulated in classes it'll certainly safe you time in the long run. I wrote a windows gui library for PlayBasic using the windows API and regretted having chosen this way very soon due to all those Windows oddities. The theming thing in XP is a pain. On the brighter side, the file size stayed well below 100kB which is about a fifth of what it would have been if I had used components
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Quote: "FreePascal is a Little cheaper than Delphi though... only by a little"
Codegear's explorer editions are free. Just hardly anybody knows they exist
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. The only limitation is that you cannot install any additional components.
Quote: "Glad to have run into you empty! Nice to meet ya."
Yes, always nice to meet fellow Pascal coders