BarMenu Components is a package to create menus and popupmenus with a gradient bar - like the classic start-menu. Gradient bar is drawn dynamically so you get very smooth bar with customizable colors. Alternatively you can have bitmap as a bar or even both; bitmap and gradient bar. Gradient bar can have dynamically created vertical caption with highlight and shadow colors. Also you can have additional bitmap (e.g. logo) on the bar. If you want you can also draw the menu bar manually through events.

Menu separator lines in BarMenus can be drawn in a short way - like in Office 2000. Also it is possible to have text in the separator line - like in ICQ. Separator line ends can be faded like in Windows XP.

Making some special application and need custom menu font? These components have MenuFont property to change the font other than the system default just for the menus in your application.

For more flexibility there is a DrawModule concept. DrawModule is separate module which handles the MenuItem drawing for the whole menu. You can switch between different DrawModules in designtime and runtime. Let the user choose the menu look in your application - implement with just one line of code!

These components are compatible with XP and you can set XP look.

Components are compatible with VCL, so it is easy to convert existing menus. In addition BarMenus are resource friendly. Package contains two

BarMenu Components package contains following components:

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BarMenu Components is a package to create menus and popupmenus with a gradient bar - like the start-menu. Gradient bar is drawn dynamically so you get very smooth bar with customizable colors. Alternatively you can have bitmap as a bar or even both; bitmap and gradient bar. Gradient bar can have dynamically created vertical caption with highlight and shadow colors. Also you can have additional bitmap (e.g. logo) on the bar and it can be positioned with one pixel accuracy. If you want you can also draw the menu bar manually through events.

Menu separator lines in BarMenus can be drawn in a short way - like in Office 2000. Also it is possible to have text in the separator line - like in ICQ.

Making some special application and need custom menu font? These components have MenuFont property to change the font other than the system default just for the menus in your application.

For more flexibility there is a DrawModule concept. DrawModule is separate module which handles the MenuItem drawing for the whole menu. You can switch between different DrawModules in designtime and runtime. Let the user choose the menu look in your application - implement with just one line of code!

Components are compatible with VCL, so it is easy to convert existing menus. In addition BarMenus are resource friendly.

BarMenu Components package contain following components:

This unit provides a component (TPJColourPopupMenu) that can display a menu containing the sixteen common Windows colours. The menu can take various styles - text only, text with a colour bitmap, colours only (like a palette) or can be owner drawn. It can display colours in 1, 2, 4 or 8 columns. The component is most useful when linked to a toolbar button.

Comes with fully integrated help and a demo project.

• The filtration and search for the required data can be of any level of difficulty.
• Optimization of search and filtration taking into account a current index.
• SQL filtration. Use "WHERE" clause to limit the effect of a SELECT statement to a subset of rows in the table.
• Support of BDE, MIDAS, ADO, dbExpress, InterBase Express, etc.
• Support alternative database access: DBISAM, KeyDB, KbmMemTable, etc.
• Development of VCL and CLX applications.
• A broad set of visual components designed for data input by an end-user for the search and filtration of data.
• Simple integration with any other visual components designed for data input.
• Simple integration with any dataset components developed by other producers.

The following compilers are supported:

ZeosDBO supports direct connectivity to the following databases using the vendor provided, native interface:

For other databases we propose to use implemented Active Data Objects (ADO) Bridge.

Advantages of using ZeosDBO:

Package contents:

Installed components:

The project home page is here (for news, links and other project info): http://www.zeoslib.net

The sourceforge development site is located here (for technical resources and anonymous web based cvs access): http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/zeoslib

The Lite version is free for use in all types of projects, personal or commercial. It comes with packages and dcus, no source. Programs made with the Lite version of the database engine is limited to one simultaneous database, 5 tables, 10.000 recrords per table. Please find more info, downloads, and assistance on our web site and in our user community support newsgroups:

news://news.nexusdb.com/nexusdb.public.support

About the full version

NexusDB is the most flexible full source database engine for Delphi and C++Builder users. It scales seamlessly from databases kept solely in memory, via embedded server (single executable deployment) to full C/S solutions scaling to hundreds of users.

The TscExcelExport component is an advanced, powerfull but easy component to export all records of a dataset from Delphi to MS Excel (97, 2000, XP or 2003). Many features are provided to change the layout, to add totals, to create groups, ...

Properties All kinds of settings to change the layout of the worksheet are provided.

• Name of worksheet and file
• Header texts
• Begin row of header, titles (=fieldnames) and data (fieldvalues)
• Width of columns or autofit
• Font of header, titles, summary and data (Alignment, WrapText, Orientation)
• Backgroundcolor and borders of header, titles, summary and data
• Summaries for numeric or given fields (SUM, MIN, MAX, AVG)
• Create groups with given fields
• A lot of other options to customize the result

• To define the background color and font color, size, name and bold style of each cell
• For exporting data without using a TDataset

• Export to Excel
• Save worksheet as XLS, HTM or CSV
• Show print preview

• This component uses the Office server components from the Borland COM type library (Excel97 or Excel2000).
• So MS Excel should be installed on the PC when using this component.

• A full demo application is supplied to view and test all features of the component.

• Canvas based (i.e. not banded!) to give the developer full control
• Full WYSWYG preview with zooming, panning and many more features
• Rich text preview/printing component
• TStringGrid preview/printing component
• Generate page thumbnails
• TTreeView printing/preview component
• Avery label printing component
• plus much, much more!

Demo's, Tutorials and FAQ's can be found at www.murtsoft.co.uk

Demo source code available from the website

Subscribe to the GmPrintSuite mailing list at the website by
clicking on "New User"

Let me know if you would like any information regarding these
components.

• Automatically adjusts printer's paper size and orientation at theprint time
• Automatically adjusts mapping modes
• Preview pages can be scaled with an arbitrarily zoom factor
• Shows created pages while the new pages are in process to create
• Displayed pages can be scrolled by mouse dragging
• Pages can be saved/restored to/from disk
• Each page is accessible as a Windows MetaFile image
• Regardless of number of previewed pages and their complexity, only consumes a small portion of Windows resources
• Has some methods to easily render rich text format and images
• Can manage custom paper sizes and forms
• Has a complete set of events

• TabfApplicationProperties - Properties and events of global Application and Screen objects.
• TabfAutoRun - Autoexec for your applications.
• TabfOneInstance - Prevents running of second copy of the application.
• TabfShutdown - Easy implementation of shutdown, restart, etc.
• TabfTrayIcon - Places an icon in the system tray (near the clock).
• TabfWndProcHook - Hooker for any window.
• TabfFileStorage - Can store a file in *.dfm resource of the form.
• TabfWav - Plays any system or custom sound.
• TabfThreadComponent - Encapsulation of the tread for easy usage.
• TabfThreadTimer - Timer of milliseconds precision.
• TabfFileOperation - Easy way to perform different file operations.
• TabfStartButtonProperties - Properties of Start Button.
• TabfColorPicker - Simplest way to get color under cursor.

Bluecave Components is a package containing several visual and non-visual components. In addition there are some helper classes and functions. For example to wrap NT privileges to a easy to use class.

Components:

Bluecave Internet Components:

Classes/functions:

Decosp components library is a set of multipurpose components for Borland Delphi, designed for advanced developers. There are more than 20 components in this library, what allow you to make your application more attractive and user interface more convenient. The package facilitates the access to database.

The library include:

• Various kind of edits:
  • Enhanced mask edit
  • Date edit
  • Float edit
  • Grid edit
  • Tree edit
  • Enhanced combo box edit
  • List combo box
• Various kind of grids:
  • dbAware grid
  • Tree grid (with possibility to present it in the form of MS Outlook grouping).
    The methods of work with tree nodes are more than 10 times faster than ones realized in standard TTreeVew component.
• Tabs controls:
  • Page controls (like InterDev style)
  • Outbar control
• Syntax Memo edit (with embedded supporting Delphi and T-SQL syntax) with simple and understandable method of further development and parsing set of languages
• And number of other useful components.

We are constantly developing presented components, adding more useful features.

and much more ... [more]

A component for Delphi 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and C++Builder 3.0 & 4.0 that looks like an LCD display. It has the following features: -

• Fully customisable source code, which can be edited if necessary.
• A popup menu can be used with the control.
• Does not require bitmaps to operate. It simply generates the LCD digits.
• LCD digits can be adjusted in size and space.
• The display can be updated with an animation effect.
• Works on Windows 95, NT & 2000.
• Compact size, only occupying 27KB when compiled in Delphi 1.0! (21KB in Delphi 6.0!)

• LTSCalendar (the old TCalendar with some bug-fixes)
• LTSDatePicker (a brand new component)

A component for Delphi 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and C++Builder 3.0 & 4.0 that looks and feels almost exactly like the controls that appear in the Office assistant balloons in Office 97 and Office 2000. It has the following features:-

• Fully customisable source code, which can be edited if necessary.
• "Active" border & button glyphs, which change depending on the state of the control.
• "Active" button glyphs can be easily modified, positioned and turned on or off.
• Control can act like any control that appears in the Office Assistant balloons in Office 97 and Office 2000.
• A popup menu can be used with the control.
• Fully compatible with the TButton component. (It has all the properties and events of the TButton component)
• Works on Windows 95, NT, 2000 & XP. (I have not tested it with Windows 98 & ME)
• Compact size, only occupying 52KB when compiled in Delphi 1.0! (47KB in Delphi 6.0!)

A component for Delphi 1.0, 2.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 and C++Builder 3.0 & 4.0 that looks like a year planner. It has the following features: -

• Individual dates can have their own hints and custom colours.
• Multiple cells can be selected.
• Fully customisable source code, which can be edited if necessary.
• A popup menu can be used with the control.
• Works on Windows 95, NT & 2000. (I have not tested it with Windows 98)
• Compact size, only occupying 54KB when compiled in Delphi 1.0! (44KB in Delphi 6.0!)

This unit contains a set of three speed button derived components that either display pop-up menus associated with the buttons or form connected button / menu button pairs. The components are:

• TPJMenuSpeedButton -- which can display an associated pop-up menu when clicked.
• TPJLinkedMenuSpeedButton -- links to a master button and displays an associated pop-up menu when clicked.
• TPJLinkedSpeedButton -- a speed button that can link to and control a slave button that accesses a pop-up menu.

Comes with fully integrated help and a demo project.

• Procedure to automatically close DataSets;


• Procedure to standardize the naming of components;


• Procedure to verify and correct TabOrder;


• Perfect Layout Procedure;


• Code Snippets;


• Delphi's IDE menu navigation;


• IDE forms Navigation;


• New Alignment Pallete, with many options not avaliable in delphi's standard pallete;


• Shortcut keys customization;


• Internationalization option;


• To aid in application Internationalization, ADEVIDExperts has a resource strings editor, Just set it for the language you prefer;
• Addded processs
• Manager Of Comments
• Auto Run Application Before compile project
• Improved Internationalization Suport

This property editor has been designed to get round two limitations of the standard Delphi string property editor:

1. inability to handle multi-line strings (i.e. strings with embedded CR/LF characters).
2. 255 character limit to string length.

The enhanced property editor works with all string and TCaption properties. It adds an ellipsis button to the right hand side of the data entry area in the property editor. Clicking the button displays a dialog box in which the property's value can be entered. Pressing return starts a new line. There is no practical limit to the length of strings that can be entered. The ability to type directly into the object inspector has been retained.

The edit dialog is resizable. Word wrapping can be switched on or off - and both settings are persistent. Text can be loaded and saved to disk.

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IconEdit.zip (ver 3.10) contains:

1. TLsIconEditor - is a design-time Icon Property Editor, that retrieves icons from *.EXE, *.DLL, *.ICO, *.CPL, *.DRV or *.OCX files, and displays them in an IconView, thus providing users with WYSIWYG selection of their desired icons. It also allows users to save a selected icon to a 16-, 256- or Hi-color Icon file, or to a Bitmap file with the same- or different-size.
2. TLsIconExplorer - is an executable utility program that demonstrates all features and functions of the TLsIconEditor. Please refer to Readme.txt for further information.

The Office Assistant Package provides an animated assistant manager similar to the Microsoft Office Assistant (or Microsoft Agent). The package contains also standard dialogs (balloon shape) like message boxes, hints, tips, and search.

The actor editor, executable demo, and some actors can be found on the author's home page.

• Class TOggVorbis - for extracting information from Ogg Vorbis file header
• Class TMPEGaudio - for manipulating with MPEG audio file information
• Class TID3v2 - for manipulating with ID3v2 tags
• Class TWAVFile - for extracting information from WAV file header
• Class TMonkey - for manipulating with Monkey's Audio file information
• Class TTwinVQ - for extracting information from TwinVQ file header
• Class TMPEGplus - for manipulating with MPEGplus file information
• Class TID3v1 - for manipulating with ID3v1 tags

TBASSPlayer also supports the followings:

• Internet radio (Shout/Icecast & WMA stream from Internet)
• Winamp 2 visualization plug-ins
• Winamp 2 DSP plug-ins
• 10 Band Equalizer
• Sound effect (Flanger, Echo, Reverb)
• WinAmp-like Spectrum visualization.

• A choice of five waveforms.
• Full ADSR envelope shaping to alter the dynamics of selected waveform.
• Frequency range of 20Hz to 20kHz.
• Tone duration from 10mS to 30 seconds
• Choice of sampling rate and resolution.
• Independent left and right volume control.
• Simple control of audio looping.

• TAudioMixer
  Provides an easy interface to manage audio mixer controls.
• TWaveStorage
  Stores a single wave audio and provides access to its informational fields.
• TWaveCollection
  Stores a collection of wave audio's as resource and provides access to their informational fields.< /LI>
• TAudioPlayer
  Plays a wave audio, which is stored in the component.
• TAudioRecorder
  Records wave audio and stores it in the component.
• TStockAudioPlayer
  Plays wave audio from a TWaveStorage or TWaveCollection component, a stream, or a file.
• TStockAudioRecorder
  Records wave audio to a TWaveStorage or TWaveCollection component, a stream, or a file.
• TLiveAudioPlayer
  Plays wave audio from user defined buffers.
• TLiveAudioRecorder
  Records wave audio to user defined buffers.
• TAudioRedirector
  Records wave audio from an input audio device and plays it on an output audio device.
• TMultimediaTimer
  Is a high resolution timer.

• Read Excel XLS 2.1, 3.0, 4.0 worksheet files and Excel XLS 5.0, 95, 97, 2000 workbook files.
• Access all sheets in workbook files.
• Receive all text, numbers, etc. you can write in a cell, including formulas!
• Read cell formatting information (font, cell color, border, etc.).
• Seek function for fast access to single cells.
• Write Excel XLS 4.0 worksheet files and Excel XLS 5.0/ 95/ 97/ 2000 workbook files (with any number of sheets in it).
• Easy to write formulas, just as strings: "SUM(A1:A10) / B2 + SIN(0.25)"
• Write cell formatting (font, cell color, border, etc.).
• FAST! Write more than 100,000 cells in less than two seconds!

This component encapsulates an About Box in a non-visual component. It has various string properties to display five different pieces of information in the about box.

Alternatively, the about box can display information extracted from the program's version information resource. This is accessed using a linked TPJVersionInfo component - available from DSP and my website.

Note: The TPJVersionInfo component must be installed before this component.

The About box also displays an icon. This is the icon defined for the application (see the Icon property of TApplication). If no icon has been specified for the application the default Delphi icon is used.

The display attributes and location on the screen can also be customised.

A help file is included that integrates into the IDE for Delphi 3 to 7. It does not integrate with the Delphi 1, 2 and 2005 or later IDEs but can be used independently of the IDE.

This code defines a property editor for properties of type HKEY - i.e. registry root keys. The editor causes a drop-down list of all the registry root keys supported by Delphi to be displayed in the object inspector for any property of type HKEY.

Such a property is exposed by my TPJRegWdwState component (available on DSP or from my website). This property editor is included with current releases of that component.

This unit provides various customisable message dialog box components. Three components are installed on the component palette. They are:

• TPJWinMsgDlg
  This component wraps the Windows MessageBoxIndirect API call and displays a message box based on that provided by Windows. This component will be suitable for most purposes and has the lighter footprint.
• TPJVCLMsgDlg
  This component uses the Delphi VCL CreateMessageDialog function to create a form based message box. (CreateMessageDialog is used by the standard Delphi MessageDlgXXX functions). The component provides more flexibility than either the Delphi functions or TPJWinMsgDlg. It should be used when it is necessary to display buttons or combinations of buttons that are not supported by the WindowsAPI message box or when a finer degree of control over the appearance and behaviour of the message box is required. TPJVCLMsgDlg supports all the features of TPJWinMsgDlg and extends them.
• TPJMessageDialog
  This is an updated version of the component supplied in release 1 of this unit. Various bugs have been fixed and the handling of user icons improved. This component is only provided for backwards compatibility with existing projects that use the old version. It exposes the same properties as the old component. Some of these properties vary from those common to TPJWinMsgDlg and TPJVCLMsgDlg. It is recommended that TPJWinMsgDlg or TPJVCLMsgDlg are used in new projects.

A demo project is included along with an OpenHelp compatible help file that integrates with Delphi 3-7.

TPJVersionInfo is a 32 bit non-visual component for all Win32 versions of Delphi and C++Builder that encapsulates the version information contained in an executable file's resources.

The component reads information from a designated file's VERSIONINFO resource. The required file is specified in the component's FileName property. Setting FileName to the empty string fetches version information for the executable containing the component. The boolean HaveInfo property indicates whether the file contains version information. This component can access variable file information for each language provided in the resource.

Run-time properties enable access to to version information. Properties enable:

• Access to fixed file information, either by field or the whole record.
• Access to the number of translations stored in the version information.
• Selection of the translation for which information is to be returned by other properties.
• Access to the language and code page of the current translation - by code and by name.
• Access to the string file information for the current translation - named properties access the Microsoft-defined string information, while an array property gives access to any string item by name.

The component makes calls to the Windows API. Therefore the version information being read must follow the Microsoft guidelines - be warned that not all software complies!

For detailed information about version information refer to the Win32 SDK.

A help file is provided that integrates with the help system of Delphi 3 to 7. An a-link keyword file is provided for integration with Delphi 6 and 7.

Source code of two demo programs is also provided.

TPJWdwState and TPJRegWdwState are a pair of non-visual components that can save and restore a window's size, position and state between program executions. Key features are:

• The components can automatically restore and save window state when the program starts up and closes down.
• The user can provide an event handler to change the stored window's state, size and position values before the window is restored.
• The components can be instructed to always display a window in the normal state regardless of the saved state.
• The window's saved size can be ignored and the form's design size used (useful for dialog boxes and fixed size windows).
• The window can be kept within the current work area of the desktop.

TPJWdwState stores window information in an ini file while TPJRegWdwState uses the Windows registry.

A help file is included that integrates into the Delphi 3-7 OpenHelp system and can be used stand-alone with Delphi 2005 and later.

A property editor is provided for editing HKEY values (such as the registry root key property of TPJRegWdwState). This editor is also available separately.

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TPJCBViewer is a simple non-visual component that registers itself as a "Clipboard Viewer". The component triggers an event each time the contents of the clipboard change.

Source and help file included.

A non-visual component that accesses version information resources in a given file. The component can read variable string information for multiple languages where these are supported by the version information resource.

Help file and demos included.

Now believed to be compatible with C++ Builder

This unit contains classes that encapsulate Windows 32 bit binary resource files and the resources contained in them. The main functionality is provided by two classes:

1. TPJResourceFile # encapsulates the contents of a whole resource file and provides methods and properties for reading, finding, editing, adding and deleting resources. Resource files can be read from and written to files or streams.
2. TPJResourceEntry # encapsulates a single resource within the file and provides properties to access its header record and its raw data. The class also provided methods to check the identity of the resource. The resource's raw data is made available as a TStream and so is easily read and written using familiar TStream methods.

Note that the classes have no knowledge of resource data formats and see the resource data simply as a raw sequence of bytes. It is for the user of the class to interpret the data correctly.

In addition to the two main classes, some useful helper functions and constants are also provided.

The download includes a UserGuide that provides detailed description of the classes, along example code for the key methods.

• files (arquivos)
• dates (datas)
• system (sistema)
• math (matematica)
• strings (strings)

• Multi-threaded ORB;
• IDL to Object Pascal mapping;
• IIOP as native protocol (ORB prepared for multiprotocol support);
• BOA;
• POA;
• Object By Value (OBV);
• Any;
• Interceptors;
• Codesets;
• Support for secure communication and authentication using SSL;
• CORBA services: Event service, Naming service, Time service.

Several TStream descendant classes that provide additional stream functionality

• A TStream derived class which can wrap another TStream - this is useful as a base class for filters to wrap round existing stream classes
• A set of stream wrappers that simplify writing data to a resource file - one class handles the resource file structure (including headers) while another handles the format of individual resources within the file.
• New for release 2: a set of classes that wrap existing streams and provide an IStream interface to them - like Delphi's undocumented TStreamAdapter - plus a class that provides a IStream interface to any file.

Several demo programs are included.