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Does anybody of you know a good, free delphi skinning library for my software? I can't find any free libraries except for AlphaControls Free.
Thanks in advance.
TBX still seems to be pretty popular.
http://code.google.com/p/tbxlib/
I've used it in the past. It's simple to use, it doesn't get in the way, and it's pretty lightweight.
XPMenu is even easier to use. All you have to do is drop the TXpMenu component on your form, and your whole application will have a new look. It replaces the painting of standard controls, and it recognizes many types of controls. If you don't want to use it anymore, you just remove the component (and the unit from the uses list).
Over the years I've changed my opinion on skins though. They usually degrade usability (things don't look and work the way users expect) and even flashy looking skins will look very outdated in a couple of years. I think it's best to let the OS decide how graphic controls should look.
SpTBXLib is an expansion package for TB2K components that adds unicode support and skinning and other features:
http://www.silverpointdevelopment.com/sptbxlib/index.htm
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At the moment I can not find a somewhat up to date version of mdc for dart. I can find for example https://pub.dev/packages/mdc_web and https://github.com/dart-lang/angular_components but both are really far away from an up to date implementation of Material Design.
Is there a library apart from this I can use, so that I can use up to date material design with dart?
The two links you posted have different use cases. The former is for vanilla web dev using Dart, and probably your best bet unless you plan to use AngularDart. Even though it has not been updated in over a year, I don't think there is anything newer. You could try cloning the repo and adding support yourself for the missing or outdated components which you desire.
AngularDart is (in my opinion) a great framework. The latter link you posted is specifically for use with AngularDart. Last update it was 15 days ago. This project is maintained by Google and I think it is safe to say that Google is by far the largest user of AngularDart. Their material design components which you linked to are going to be your best bet in this case.
Generally speaking though, using Dart for web dev never achieved widespread adoption, so there are not large communities with a lot of active package maintainers.
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I'm looking for a decent charting library to use with Delphi 2010.
We dont want to require additional framework be installed on client PCs, so would like to avoid toolkits that use .Net, Java or Flash.
The chart types we need are pretty straight forward (2D and 3D pie/donut, bar, line), but the customer wants to have attractive charts with translucency, rounded edges, etc. Similar to what's available from Dundas Charts.
TeeChart seems like a natural choice and we looked at TMS Advanced Charts, but they don't support the appearance the customer is asking for.
TeeChart is excellent, but you must read the documentation. At least initially, I found it somewhat non-intuitive, contrary to the experience of M Schenkel. The documentation is good and extensive, as TeeChart has been around a while. For customization, TChart exposes OnBeforeDrawChart and OnAfterDraw, and so Windows GDI methods can be use to modify the appearance. TChart can also do certain extended chart types, including a donut.
I have used both TeeChart and TMS Charts. Both can be used without any additional deployments (i.e. ActiveX, dlls). I tend to use TeeCharts more; it is a bit more "seasoned" product and a little more intuitive.
Have a look: http://www.kronsoft.home.ro , but it's a died project.
The Jedi library offers a pretty decent charting / graph component,
it's very understandable and offers pretty much of customizing
http://www.delphi-jedi.org/
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Is there a good code snippets application for Delphi or general purpose with IDE integration? I would like to store Code, queries, notes, etc..
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GExperts has a Code Librarian feature for code snippets amongst many other nice features and integrates with the IDE. Well worth to check out even if you don't decide to use the Code Librarian feature.
Delphi 2006 and later has Live Templates. They are a bit tricky because you've got to edit XML files to really make them work, but they are powerful when they do. See Nick's Live Templates Camtasia Presentation. Ctrl-J is the shortcut to invoke this.
Prior to that, Delphi 2005 and earlier had simple code snippets. I believe Ctrl-J also invoked them.
Another option is to use Castalia and its Code Templates feature.
Dittos to Ozmosys above.
Also check CodeSnip Database Viewer from the delphidabbler:
http://www.delphidabbler.com/software/codesnip
I use Knowledgebase from Ozmosys. It hasn't been updated in a while, but it works, and it is written in Delphi. Ozmosys
I have to endorse Ozmosys' Knowledge Base too. The reason it hasn't been updated in a while is that it just works. When I DID have issues early in the development of the program, the author was very responsive and quick about doing it. It's logical and easy to post code and other types of hints. I use it every day, juggling the three or so projects that seem to be perpetually on my plate.
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I want to use a "spin button control" (also known as an up-down control) in my Delphi Win 32 application (I'm using Delphi 2007).
The aim is to have a control that looks like in Microsoft Office:
image of up/down control in Powerpoint. http://img167.imageshack.us/my.php?image=updownzn8.png
I found this on the Microsoft website: CSpinButtonCtrl Class
But I haven't so far found a control that uses this class - here's where I've been searching:
The SpinEdit control in Delphi looks well... not so good, and doesn't seem to use the official Microsoft control
The JVCL classes have their own implementation
A Google search did not return any results (except some home-brew up/down controls)
I couldn't find something in the Jedi API as well
Can somebody please point me to where I can find a Delphi implementation of the common spin control from Microsoft, or how I can do that myself?
Have a look at TUpDown. It wraps the Win32 control.
Raize Components Raize.com have a nice one
TMS Software do a wide range of components including spin edits (fancy an iPhone style one!) and I have found their support through the newsgroups to be excellent.
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The PC-SC component by nobbi.com doesn't seem to be Delphi 2009 compliant. I had to convert PChars to PAnsiChars but I still couldn't access ReaderList properly, all I could get was bunch of "|"s. So, is there any PC-SC wrapper for Delphi 2009, or a sample application of Omnikey's Sync API for Delphi? C# samples for Sync API are fine aswell, as I can use them as DLL under Delphi.
The device I'll be using is Omnikey 5321, mainly for MIFARE purposes.
That is the only framework I am aware of for Delphi. I have been keeping any eye out since as far back as 2001 and have not seen anything better.
I did some commercial SC development for the financial sector and ended up rolling my own framework for Delphi 5/7. I had the requirement to monitor card change events (insert/remove) and end up using a background thread. The solution was robust and worked very well.
The porting to D2009 should not be that difficult since the API is relatively small. Watch out for structure alignment and of course Unicode. As I recall the structure alignment required some fudging to get right (i.e. padding bytes were needed).
Best of luck!
David