VCL conversion

[tobenschain]

Is there a program such as Mida available for converting VCL to Intraweb?

[marktuan]

I don't know of a direct equivalent to Mida that can reliably convert a VCL application into an IntraWeb application automatically. The two frameworks have quite different UI and application models, so even if a conversion tool could handle the basic components, the event handling and state management would still need some manual work.

For a larger existing VCL project, I think the practical approach is to identify the business logic that can be reused first, then rebuild the UI using IntraWeb components. That should also make it easier to separate any VCL-specific code that needs to be replaced.

If someone has actually used a VCL-to-IntraWeb conversion tool recently, I'd be interested to hear about it as well.