The first version of the software that made our company launch back in the 90’s was made with Delphi with a browser like component that we discovered, after making successful demos to French historic telco leading to more visible demos, was a 30 days demo and that we couldn’t compile anymore without a message box stating that.
So due to emergency we rewrote all in a week in VB6 (or maybe it was 4 or 5 I don’t really remember) with the Internet Explorer browser object.
And thanks to the simplicity of Visual Basic it was possible to do so !
And then the demos lead to sales and we are still here 22 years later
I think it was Borland Delphi 3 or 4, and there where a browser object, perhaps based on IE, but demo.
It was in 1997 and it was not possible to order via Internet so the times the letter with the licence number arrive from US to France and we would have missed the important demo.
Plus, to be completely honest, we were totally broke !
So due to emergency we rewrote all in a week in VB6 (or maybe it was 4 or 5 I don’t really remember) with the Internet Explorer browser object.
And thanks to the simplicity of Visual Basic it was possible to do so !
And then the demos lead to sales and we are still here 22 years later