.dfm to Delphi 7 .dfm

By Sarah Dean
Last updated: 14th November 2010

Description
Download
Notes
TODO List
Known Bugs
Appendix A: Version History

Description

".dfm to Delphi 7 .dfm" is a command line tool for converting Delphi 2006 and later ".dfm" files to a format suitable for use with Delphi 7. Specifically, it strips out all:

ExplicitLeft
ExplicitTop
ExplicitWidth
ExplicitHeight

lines from .dfm files, allowing them to be loaded, compiled and run using Delphi 7.

Please email any bug reports, feature requests, comments, etc to me at sdean12@sdean12.org

The latest version can be found at: http://www.SDean12.org/

Download

Download latest stable .dfm to Delphi 7 .dfm package, including full source code. (If you would like to build your own copy of this software from the source, please see also Delphi Components to download the library packages required.)

Hashes and PGP signatures of the software, as downloaded, are available here

Notes

Please, do read the documentation in this file before emailing me! I know it's not much, and only really covers the basics, but...

To use ".dfm to Delphi 7 .dfm", open a command prompt and run the tool using the following parameters:

  dfm2Delphi7dfm.exe /?
  dfm2Delphi7dfm.exe /help
  dfm2Delphi7dfm.exe [/verbose <level>] [/r] [/nobackup] /filemask <filemask>

Where:

/? Display command line summary.

/help Display command line summary.

/verbose <level> Verbose level; one of:

Level 0: Do not display any messages
Level 1: List modified files
Level 2: List all files
Default level: 1

/r Recurse subdirectories.
Default: Do not recurse subdirectories.

/nobackup Suppress making backups of files modified.
Default: Make backups of all files modified.

/filemask <filemask> Filemask; identify files to operate on.
Default: *.dfm

All .dfm files found will then be converted for use with Delphi 7

In order to be processed correctly, .dfm files must be saved in text and not binary format.

TODO List

Any suggestions?

Known Bugs

None known of at present

Appendix A: Version History

v1.10 (14th November 2010)

Updated to remove Delphi 2010 "DoubleBuffered" and "ParentDoubleBuffered"

v1.00 (13th April 2009)

Initial release

Email me at: sdean12@sdean12.org

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/?	Display command line summary.
/help	Display command line summary.
/verbose <level>	Verbose level; one of: Level 0: Do not display any messages Level 1: List modified files Level 2: List all files Default level: 1
/r	Recurse subdirectories. Default: Do not recurse subdirectories.
/nobackup	Suppress making backups of files modified. Default: Make backups of all files modified.
/filemask <filemask>	Filemask; identify files to operate on. Default: *.dfm