Hi,

I am not a C progammer & know nothing about it so sorry if my question appears to be basic. I have a problem. I use a programming language called layout which nobody here has probably ever heard of. It was discontinued over 15 years years ago but it was a very visual & easy to use piece of software - no coding required. In fact once you name all the variables on cards (forms) from then on it's just mouse clicking & occassionaly typing a number if required. It used blackboxes in a flowchart arrangement which were pre-done code for doing just about anything. i.e opening windows, handling numbers & text, files etc. I have written many programs with it including database management, quoting software & currently use it in my business to track my jobs & do invoicing & ordering. It's a pity it wasn't updated & still around today.

(if anyone is interested this is about the only info I could find on it now to give you an idea what is is like: http://www.danielsays.com/ss-gallery-win1x2x3x-layout-for-windows-300c.html )

Back to the problem. Being a 16 bit program it was written to run on Windows 3.1 but still works on Windows 7!! as long as it is the 32 bit version. I need to write a program that will run on 64 bit W7 without resorting to using a virtual PC solution. I have tried to find something similar that I might be able to use instead but so far nothing comes close to Layout. I just remembered today that layout can produce not only .exe programs but also various versions of C/Python including visual Python. So I got this idea that if I could get those files I might be able to stick them into a C compiler program to re-make a "modern" exe file.

Does that sound feasable? If someone was willing I could just do a simple sample program & send the source code to them to see if it works on a 64 bit version of Windows 7. Or if someone could tell me how I can do this myself to produce a working exe file.

I dunno what else I can do. I don't want to have to learn C & have to type code in just for this 1 thing. Getting too old for that hehe...

Please help!

Thank you. :)

Just to clarify ,
Are you able to generate C/Python based source file with the help of Layout ?

yes.. it can output Standard C source code, Borland Python & visual Python.

So there are certain workspace file for Python which you can directly open with some standard editors like Microsoft Visual Studio for Python.
So can you check what kind of workspace file is there , cehck for .dsw or .sln files.
If they exist then your job becomes easy.

thanks to everyone for supporting answer.... i needed it..

There are no files like that. There is a .cpp, a few .h, .rc, .mak, .po*, a whole heap of files with just numbers as extensions & 00a,00b etc.
it sounds like my job is going to be hard then.

If you are willing I could send you the output files from a small program to see if you can do something with it?

Obviously armandoin is lost....