Migrating to Harbour

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

I never migrated to Harbour I use Harbour since its very early beginning.

And never had the need to copy a file with non-ascii characters.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

And never had the need to copy a file with non-ascii characters.

I can't believe this. Spanish has non-ascii characters. What if you have to copy a user document with unpredictable filename?

EMG

[James Bott]

Enrico,

Is that correct? I would prefer to not use something related to a specific language.

I am wondering if xHarbour is already requesting the same codepage, and if so, then you already are using something related to a specific language. Have you looked at the source code for xHarbour for the codepage (using a global search)? Or, maybe just reviewing the source for memowrit() and copyfile() would turn up something.

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

I am mostly a system developer not an application developer

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

James,

Enrico,

Is that correct? I would prefer to not use something related to a specific language.

I am wondering if xHarbour is already requesting the same codepage, and if so, then you already are using something related to a specific language. Have you looked at the source code for xHarbour for the codepage (using a global search)? Or, maybe just reviewing the source for memowrit()

Just searched. It's not so easy to understand the code. Anyway, I found nothing related to unicode.

and copyfile() would turn up something.

CopyFile() is a Windows API function. I'm very confused...

EMG

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Antonio,

Enrico,

I am mostly a system developer not an application developer

Ok. But what about the other friends that already migrated to Harbour? Am I the only one with these problems? I can't believe that...

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

You got it working, so surely you did it the right way

[James Bott]

Enrico,

CopyFile() is a Windows API function. I'm very confused...

I was just thinking that if they are using a codepage that it may be getting called in the code for the API call.

If Harbour is not calling the codepage anywhere then maybe that is the problem. If you can find it called in xHarbour then that would seem to confirm that is the difference between the two languages.

[TimStone]

Enrico,

I am an application developer ...
I've been using xBase variants for over 32 years ( back to dBase II with the Ashton Tate runtime license on a CP/M machine ).

Previously I used xHarbour( .com ) version and still have it building a distribution version of my application.
I also have a fully functioning build of the same program using Harbour, FWH, and Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 ( Visual Studio 2013 Professional, with latest updates )

I use one set of source code for both builds. I use Ultra Edit Studio and have a native build ( Windows ) and a called routine ( xHarbour builder ). Thus I only have one set of source code to revise, enhance and build.

I have no problems building working code. The only issue I have is with Harbour and the ADS drivers. I have a version of the libs for xharbour that work with all versions of ADS, but the one I have for Harbour only works with ADS 9 and above.

I am currently working on a new version of my software built completely within Visual Studio 2013, using Harbour and FWH.

ALL of my projects are fully functional, and I have no build problems in any of the 3.

I believe you use Borland. I do not so I can't share anything about how it might work. Perhaps you have some functions tuned for Borland and that is where your problem lies. I can assure you that the tools I am using are working very well, they are fast, and there are no current problems.

Tim

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Tim,

have you tried my samples?

EMG

[TimStone]

No ... I really can't now. Sorry.

I am in the middle of a huge amount of work. I am taking 33 years of code and optimizing it into classes. I find a lot of repetitive functions that I can eliminate ( 3 or 4 functions in different areas of the application that all do basically the same thing and can be reduced to 1 ). There are over 110 .prg files, some with over 8000 lines of code.

This is all being done with Visual Studio 2013 ( soon to be tested with VS 2015 preview ), FWH, and Harbour. It is also being tested on Windows 10 preview AND EVERYTHING IS WORKING.

I just wanted to let you know that I have been 100% successful with Harbour and MSFT Visual Studio languages.

Tim

[James Bott]

Enrico,

Are you only having issues with the memoWrit(), copyfile(), and memoLine() routines and everything thing else is working? Or, have you found other issues?

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

James,

Are you only having issues with the memoWrit(), copyfile(), and memoLine() routines and everything thing else is working? Or, have you found other issues?

At the moment I'm very tired of Harbour.

Anyway, I would like to fix that issues before keeping on...

EMG

[James Bott]

I was just thinking that those are very specific issues for you but maybe not for everyone.

It seems that at the very worst you could compile those three functions from xHarbour and link them into your app when compiling with Harbour and that would get you a running app (provided there aren't other issues too).

Isn't there a Harbour forum where you might post your problems? Maybe then they would get fixed.

I might also point out that these may not be considered bugs, but rather things that xHarbour supports that Harbour doesn't. If you were moving from Harbour to xHarbour I expect you would also find incompatibilities.

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

James,

I was just thinking that those are very specific issues for you but maybe not for everyone.

It seems that at the very worst you could compile those three functions from xHarbour and link them into your app when compiling with Harbour and that would get you a running app (provided there aren't other issues too).

That's exactly what I'm trying to do.

Isn't there a Harbour forum where you might post your problems? Maybe then they would get fixed.

I dropped Harbour years ago because of the bad attitude of its developers (specifically Viktor).

I might also point out that these may not be considered bugs, but rather things that xHarbour supports that Harbour doesn't. If you were moving from Harbour to xHarbour I expect you would also find incompatibilities.

Ok, I'll going on, we'll see...

EMG