ARX problem/decompiler

I in the process of putting together a menu/application that makes/uses database driven drawings for P&ID's and loop DWGs primarily and I have the database issues sorted out but my main problem now is I have re-written the majority of the menu using an old R14 menu that was created in house as a template. The guy that wrote the R14 menu originally is no longer with us (he died while working here so I it is a touchy subject trying to get information out of people here and all of his source was on his laptop which has been formatted and sold after his death). I need to either update the ARX files to work in 2000 up or completely re-wrote every line of code. The parts I need to update are major just things like an insert/autobreak routine and some other autobreak (autobreaking breaking horizontal or vertical crossings) type functions. Is there any known way to decompile it or am I stuck to re-writing all of the code I need from scratch?

 

Hi I am afraid you are stuck. There is no way to decompile an arx file. Programs written in C++ can't be decompiled unless you have a debug compilation of the arx, and that is still not a good solution.

Your only hope is that there is a backup that exists somewhere.

Thanks and sorry Chad Wanless

 

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Thanks, that's what I was afraid of.