Converting BC AppExpert Generated project to VC OWL ClassExpert project
 | Install new OWL Development Toolkit for VC. |
| Create empty application in OWL Wizard for VC (there is new options: empty project) |
| Copy to newly created directory your files, and include them in VC project. |
| You have to convert all embedded BITMAP's, ICON's, CURSOR's in separated files (VC don't supported this). copy context Borland RC in new VC *.rc.Note there are special markers in VC rc, so the optimal way not to replace VC rc, but copy it context. Please note: VC doesn't support multiple *.rc files. |
| Also copy context of BC *.rh in resource.h. |
| You can also change all references from *.rh to resource.h. |
| You have change <owl/pch.h> to "owlpch.h". You can use another precompiled header file, of course, but you need to setup VC right. |
| Press ClassExpert. You will get dialog: ClassExpert DataBase not found, rescan? Press Ok. It will work some time (very fast) and open ClassExpert with all your files in it. |
| It's all. Notes: |
| I've check tagged scanner in several projects, but it if it will hang in your project I would like to get some short sample where it fail. |
| ClassExpert DataBase is very simple text file with the same name as your project *.dsp. After rescan it advisable to check it, if all Ok. If something wrong I would like to know what, to fix this. |
| Attention, Old version ClassExpert had a
BUG, when you creates new class it wrote OWL CLX Tag in reverse order: //{NewClass = BaseClass} class NewClass : public BaseClass{ have to be //{BaseClass = NewClass} class NewClass : public BaseClass{ Tagged scan will fail on this, you have manually fix this place. |