BL> I only learn what I *have* to learn, when I have to learn it.
 BL> In fact, Delphi is very much like VB in the way it uses
 BL> objects.

 FM> Well I don't know VB that well, but I think you mean *visual*
 FM> objects, the things you see on your screen. AFAIK VB doesn't
 FM> have any object-oriented stuff, in the programming (rather than
 FM> the visual) sense.

  Actually, Pascal uses the same objects for both. I have since
realised this. At first, I was using Pascal the way I used VB, using
the objects *in* the code as a way of communicating with the Windows
GUI when I was not waiting for an Event to drive it. 

  When I try this in Pascal, I find that there are all sorts of
restrictions, the most basic being that I can't refer to the form
objects from another Unit. I can call then in the USES from the main
unit, but I can't do the reverse or it loops. In VB, I can have
separate units, but as soon as I put them in the project, the forms
are available to everything.

  So... I have to learn a whole pack of objects in the code as well as
the Windows interface. OTOH, the standard objects are easy enough to
use. The catch is that I'll end up having to write a dozen of my own
to replace the ones in BP7 that no longer exist in Delphi.

Regards,
Bob
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