Create copy of Win App into a Web Site

General Help
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Hi all,

I need to create a copy of my windows application as a web site

How do I do that

Which components etc are best for that

Can I use FireDAC to access the FireBird Database etc

Can anyone point me to some guidance on this

Thanks in advance
Grant

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You really need to rebuild it from the ground up, porting is less than desirable, I use UniGUI and it is fantastic. Andy

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Another possible fairly quick option talked about at last year’s symposium.

VirtualUI, this seems quite interesting. Get your
existing delphi program in a web browser quite easily. (Looks to
support back to D5)

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Andy,

I agree uniGUI is a great tool. I do not agree on “ground up”. If you have layered your VCL application correctly - e.g. Data Access | Business Rules | UI - it will be possible to recycle the first two layers and you only need to redo the UI.

Salut,
Mathias

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Mathias, I guess it comes down to many things, I was actually thinking of the GUI (desktop/mobile auto-scaling).

I have ported in the past and also built from the ground up a whole portfolio of legacy windows applications, and finally had to rebuild previously ported ones - each to his own.

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Yes Andy,

form factor and device screen size is still a sticky point with these uniGUI applications.

Salut, Mathias

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I ditched uniGUI some years ago after doing a fairly in-depth comparison of alternatives.

I ended up going for Elevate Web Builder (EWB) and never looked back.

The quality of the design and the GUI form designer is impressive (would be very familiar to Delphi developers – so fairly easy transition into the web dev environment.

Also has some great features – like the auto positioning of screen GUI objects as a response to screen size.

There’s also a very nice 3’rd party collection (mostly GUI form objects) here :

https://www.erickengelke.com/nice/samples.html

(from memory - $80 for lifetime subscription). You can click the buttons on the web page to see what it gives you).

There was a EWB presentation at last years Symposium (ADUG 2024 Symposium – ADUG).

So if your searching for a comprehensive pascal based web development framework EWB is definitely worth a look.

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Ouch - here’s the EWB link - Elevate Software, Inc..