Porting data aware component up from Delphi 2

[colttaylor]

I've been assigned the task of porting a Delphi 2.0 application to Delphi 5.0. The application relies on a great number of data aware components, but fortunately I have the source code to almost all of them.
The first component I am trying to port upward has a private variable of type TFIELDDATALINK which it instanciates in its constructor. Delphi 5.0 does not recognize the TFIELDDATALINK type.

Does anyone know where I could find some documentation on the changes to the data-aware features between versions 2.0 and 3.0 of Delphi? There must have been tons of literature back then on how to handle this kind of a component upgrade, but I can't seem to find any now.

BTW... I already know that this is a ludicrous assignment and that I should just be re-implementing the application in the latest Delphi. Unfortunately, it is not my decision and the man who is signing the checks is a valued repeat customer. So I gotta do it his way!

Thanks in advance for any help.
Peace,
Colt

If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid

 

[colttaylor]

Don't bother to send answers. I found it myself.

Prior to version 3.0, the TFIELDDATALINK type came from DB.
After version 2.0, it came from DBCTRLS.

It hasn't been abandoned, it just moved.

I updated the uses line and everything works fine.
On to the next component!


If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid