> For Claudio, you said Delphi is good for small simple
> tools, I made the tutorial which is basically a blank
> form with a load and save menu, the .exe is 500kb!!
> The same thing in turbo C is about 10kb. Or am I doing
> something wrong? I really would like to make small
> .exe apps that I can email to people etc, but I can't
> see how to make ANYTHING less than 1/2 a Mb!! :o(
> -Roman

Hi,

it should probably be pointed out that the Delphi exe's are that size
because they're mostly self-contained - any VCL components that are included
in your project will be compiled into the program.

This is as opposed to the VB/VC++, where you will have to ship visual basic
runtimes (for vb programs), the .net framework or any used activex
components..

Delphi programs are a lot easier to distribute, with a lot less deployment
problems.

Unless you go into database programs - in which case you will have to
distribute one or more BDE/ODBC/MDAC/JET with Borland/MS created programs.


I've used VB, VC++ and Delphi professionally, and i definetely prefer
delphi.  The only problems that delphi has are that the IDE isn't as well
developed, and the supplied documentation doesn't stand up very well against
MSDN.

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