BCEditor (& BCDragDrop) - a small adventure

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After @GrahameDGrieve asked about a C to Delphi thing, I went and looked at GitHub - WouterVanNifterick/C-To-Delphi: C To Delphi converter

At 5yrs old, it put up a struggle. It wanted a TBCEditor and TBCDragDrop.

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I went looking for the Editor, and the github page I went to looked promising.
BCEditor.JsonDataObjects needed a couple of LongInts changed to NativeInts, but otherwise fine.

But C2Delphi was complaining that the TBCEditor IDE component was missing properties it was expecting :

CompletionProposal.Font.Charset, CompletionProposal.Font.Color, CompletionProposal.Font.Height,
CompletionProposal.Font.Name,    CompletionProposal.Font.Style,  and
WordWrap.Indicator.Glyph.Data

But on inspection, they could just be deleted out of the dfm file.

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Looking TBCDragDrop lead me here: GitHub - delphioracle/Components-Backup-ONLY: Components for bonecode software.

It had 5 components :

BCComponent.DragDrop.pas,    BCComponent.MultiStringHolder.pas, BCComponent.WndProcHook.pas,
BCComponent.SkinManager.pas, BCComponent.TitleBar.pas

and the last two wanted “acntDX10Berlin.bpl” … which lead me to Alpha Controls.
I didn’t see anything there about free components, so I just deleted the last two, and it installed.

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I haven’t used DWS (Delphi WebScript), and didn’t want to mess around further, so I turned off that flag, and C2Delphi compiled and ran. The core functionality of C → Delphi translation needs work. It should be fun to play with.

But in among all the google searching to get things running, I came across the back story to BCEditor, and BoneCode, and Lasse Rautiainen. [ Torry's Delphi Pages ]

Seems that the editor was created in ~2015, and has had a bit of history since then:

https://en.delphipraxis.net/topic/4441-tbceditor-text-editor-component/

https://forums.adug.org.au/t/does-bceditor-have-license-issues/57602

Buuuttt … HE’S BACK, it seems, with TextEditor (right up to date, as in hours ago) and it’ll be good to update C2Delphi to use TextEditor now and clear up any issues.

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You could always replace the editor component with SynEdit. As for JsonDataObjects, the original can be found here GitHub - ahausladen/JsonDataObjects: JSON parser for Delphi 2009 and newer

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Thanks, @vincent, I had meant to mention SynEdit in all that as a possibility. I clearly typed too much. :slight_smile:

I hadn’t planned to spend that much time (an afternoon I guess) to get C2D up in D11, so I was looking for the path of least resistance. I’m assuming TextEditor might be a near-drop-in replacement. Maybe that’s wrong.

Regarding JDO, this is the (equivalent) line that needed modifying. It just had Longint.

function Realloc(var NewCapacity: {$IF Defined(USE_NATIVEINT)}NativeInt{$ELSE}Longint{$IFEND}): Pointer; override;