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There are quite a few VCLs for Delphi to build reports, so I'd like some feedback on which one to check.
It's just to build a few pages, ie. a microIVS application, so I don't need enterprise-level solutions. I don't expect any open-source tools, but if there's a good one out there...
I know about the following:
Rave Reports, which ships with Delphi 2007
QuickReports (I read that it used to ship with Delphi, but has been replaced by Rave Reports)
FastReports
Report Builder
Crystal Report
Thank you.
My vote goes to Fast Report. We have used Quick Report in Delphi 5 and 7, Rave and List & Label in Delphi 7 (only for a short time), now we are moving to Fast Report which supports Delphi 2009. It is a great product and the support is very good.
There's FreeReport from same company who produced FastReport, if you don't need to much work on reports or complex reports you can use it, and upgrade later to FR.
But my vote for FastReport, it's very easy and you can build the complex reports without a lot of works.
If you don't need anything heavy-duty, why not just go with Rave, seeing as how it's already included with Delphi?
ReportBuilder Standard is feature rich, easy to use and well supported. There are more advanced editions available as well if you need more functionality.
Have a look at report manager at http://reportman.sourceforge.net/
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Are there any alternatives for IntraWeb for Delphi,
if I want to write a simple but meaningful webserver in Delphi?
I've been doing Cold Fusion, PHP and ASP work when I was also doing Delphi work, and found it strange I was writing server-side script that would get parsed over and over, while there's a really good and fast Delphi compiler! So I went out and started http://xxm.sf.net/ It provides a way to combine HTML and Object Pascal into the same files, works with IIS, Apache, Internet Explorer, FireFox, and has a plain HTTP implementation using TTcpServer also. When you make changes to the source-code (and use an AutoBuild handler) the binary is re-compiled on the fly by pressing refresh in your browser. Much like other website scripting platforms.
It's pretty crude, and new, but remember that's somewhere PHP and others were some time after they started.
If you want a RIA application with Delphi, nothing is better than uniGUI.
Morfik tries to be RAD for web apps, was originally written in and for Delphi quite a few years ago (8 or 9), now also has versions for C# and VB.NET. I have no experience with it, but was surprised to see a pretty well trafficked forum on their website:
Main Morfik site: http://www.morfik.com
Page with some Delphi tips: http://wiki.morfik.com/wiki3/Tips_For_Delphi_Developers
Also some components at RealThinClient that are geared towards web development with Delphi: http://realthinclient.com/
Developer Express used to have ExpressWebFramework, which was architecturally similar to ASP.NET but was a Win32/VCL framework. It was a competitor to IntraWeb but I don't think they sell it anymore (probably because since there's been a .NET version of Delphi the .NET web development environment has been preferred by most).
WebHub is a third party alternative, as are the 2 solutions that come inbuilt into the VCL, WebBroker and WebSnap.
WebSnap is deprecated though so I wouldn't recommend it. WebBroker is still supported and is good at what it does, it's just it doesn't do a lot compared to say IntraWeb or WebHub.
You can write your own web server by using Winsock unit.
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Can anybody recommend a good Delphi source code navigation and analysis tool, which enables code browsing, shows class hierarchy and evtl. has an editing option? I tried Code-Navigator which is very fast but i a bit its unstable in complex dependencies.
For navigation and refactoring, I prefer the ModelMaker Code Explorer IDE expert over anything I have seen before.
It is fast, stable, supports many Delphi versions, has excellent key-bindings (for me, using a mouse is so last century), and supports generics.
It doesn't do repaints over the code-editor (like CodeRush did, and now Castalia does), which can be useful, but it doesn't suffer from painting artifacts either.
Unlike ECO, and the Delphi internal refactoring and ...-Insight tools, it doesn't keep a full model of the whole application and all the libraries it (indirectly) uses. But the tools that do, try to completely emulate the Delphi compiler, and usually fail.
--jeroen
Castalia for Delphi has some great features - including (amongst lots of other stuff) some code navigation aids.
The only other set of tools I've ever really used in Delphi is GExperts, but quite honestly, I can't remember if it included any code navigation features... worth a look nonetheless!
Have you tried
ModelMaker?
or
GExperts?
or
Castalia?
"As we have a huge code base..."
Our Source Code Search Engine (SCSE) might be helpful. It uses a language structure aware tokenizer to break you source into tokens, index the set and store the index as a database, and provides the ability to use queries to search across that set using the index rather than a file-by-file scan. This gives you fast searches that aren't confused by white space or comments. (It will also do grep style searches, but they're a lot slower).
It doesn't construct class hierarchies. It will allow you to access an editor from found hits.
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I am just getting back into C++ Bulder after several years.
What's currently the best web-site for free VCL components?
JVCL is the standard free VCL suite.
The Jedi site is great, but my favorite is Torry's Delphi Page, which has lots of components and resources.
(source: torry.net)
Torry is one of the main places you should look for free components. They have hundreds of them (you will have to be able to filter old components and take some other with a pinch of salt).
I use Torry's Delphi Pages a lot and the JVCL too, but for me the best components are Mike Lischke's Soft Gems. There used to be a very nice library called the LVK Components but it was taken over by a company, TwoDesk and have two licenses that you can choose to use (for Commercial and Open Source applications.)
My vote is for LMD Tools. I use the freeware edition all the time in my personal projects, and I've used it in some commercial apps too. I've played a bit with the JVCL, but I don't find it nearly as useful as LMD Tools.
Delphi Super Page - not updated for years but sometimes still useful.
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I have to build an application based in an ActiveX library (MIL for Matrox framegrabbers).
The library should be already working, since it compiles and run a console application provided as example. (Yes, the console application is probably not using any ActiveX at all... I actually don't know)
The application will set times, frames per second, etc.
I never used Visual C++ before (I have some poor C programming skills), let alone an ActiveX library. I'm not even able to get an "Ok Cancel" dialog to work...
I need the most basic ever vc6 + ActiveX tutorial.
Thanks in advance.
Here is an example - how to create a control (you already have one) and how to interact with it.
By the way, using VC++ isn't the best choice IMO. Programming of COM clients are much simpler in VB...
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can anyone suggest an editor component like RichEdit that supports embedding photos in a delphi app? RichEdit doesn't seem to support this.
am not considering embedding MS Word since not everyone would have that.
than you for your help!
I recomend TRichView http://www.trichview.com/.
I did work with WPTools for long time, but recently I found TRichView a lot more simple to use.
AFAIR the TrxRichEdit from rxlib supported embedding pictures. Since rxlib was incorporated into the jvcl, I guess TJvRichEdit should as well.
I think it should work when you insert bmp files. Other image files are not supported. Maybe you can convert your images to a bitmap first?
If you don't mind paying for a component library, I recommend WP Tools. They have extensive support for document formatting (including inserting images) and provide their library as native VCL package (so you don't have the "what version of Word" conversation).