you don't have to use the FORMS unit. you can code all the essential
things you need yourself. then your apps will basically be the same
size as your turbo c app.
but of course, you have to handle everything yourself. just like in
turbo c.

if you are really feeling adventurous, you could use asm to make win
apps. i think steve gibson (grc.com) does this.

one thing i started doing was using UPX runtime compressor for my
apps. basically shrinks them 50%. so a 500k app becomes 250k. i have
not noticed any performance issues.

my 2 cents.
moose.


---- Original Message ----
From: Tony.Nixon@ENG.MONASH.EDU.AU
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU,
Subject: Re: [OT]: Best small windows developer platform??
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 09:02:16 +1000

>Roman Black wrote:
>
>> 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(
>
>I've been using Delphi for years. I can zap up a quick apps in
>minutes,
>such as serial comms for testing PIC code in just minutes. As with
>any
>software package these days, there will be a learning curve, but
>stick
>with it, I'm sure it will do well - plus it was free ;-)
>
>The basic form is a big part of Windows and is very functional.
>Resize
>it, draw on it, write on it, minimize it, etc. etc. etc. It obviously
>takes a lot of code to implement. Just click on the blank form on the
>IDE and press F1 to see how much makes up a form.
>
>You can have formless applications which shrink the app size
>dramatically.
>
>--
>Best regards
>
>Tony
>
>mICros
>http://www.bubblesoftonline.com
>mailto:sales@bubblesoftonline.com
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