Sys64738 - Programming @ 300 BPM

Hellcore Mailer - IMAP4 and translation update

Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:54:26 +0200

It took me several months to complete, but finally there it is - an IMAP4 update. I've released it for Polish users back in the July, improving my IMAP implementation and fixing older bugs since then. I haven't totally forgot about international users and translation was updated as the UI was...

TGrayForm

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:46:40 +0200

TGrayForm is a non-visual component that can be used to mask out forms that are, for example, unavailable at the moment. The whole idea behind this component is to grab a form's image, modify image colors so the form looks differently (here it is converted to grayscale) and draw the image on top...

JPEGFast - loading JPEG images fast

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:14:20 +0200

Some time ago I noticed that Arnaud Bouchez has created a nice Delphi unit that contains disassembled version of Dr Manhattan's JpegDec library which is an optimized (uses SSE and SSE2 instructions) JPEG image decompressor. You can get more...

TPixelTransformer

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:55:57 +0200

TPixelTransformer is a class that helps you process large images without much regard to their original pixel format. You can treat all bitmaps, no matter what their pixel format is, just like ordinary pf24bit bitmaps!

For some bitmap operations, like resampling, mirror, or other...

TSysIcon

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:39:18 +0200

TSysIcon is a visual component that represents system icons like exclamation or stop sign. Nothing especially new, code is very simple too, nevertheless, on contrary with other such controls, my TSysIcon supports Windows Vista/Windows 7 shield (used, for example, in UAC pop-ups) and also icons...

MboxProxy NG

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:51:32 +0200

A bit late, nevertheless, it's here - a new flavor of MboxProxy, MboxProxy NG capable of processing Unix mailboxes larger than 0,5-1GB!

MboxProxy itself is a small application that can be useful if you need to import your mail from applications that use Unix mailboxes as...

Crash Course: done alone

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:52:47 +0200

It started a few months ago, when me and my steam friend got into a need for a Left 4 Dead's "Nothing special" achievement - ie. survive whole campaign without any survivor taking any damage from special infected. Simple? Not quite. The point is, if the "Expert" difficulty is, ... well,...

Language barriers -- or rather lack thereof

Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:12:52 +0200

It's funny how people overerestimate their smartness. As I'm playing Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 almost every evening, I was already a spectator of fabulous scenes, many of them involved ranting, rage quits, blaming each other, using inappropriate language, and so on. I was also a witness of...

Protecting Win32 EDIT controls

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:29:52 +0200

Windows edit control (EDIT, also known as TEdit) allows you to enter short lines of text, and has some special properties that make it usable in few more scenarios - for example, you can make it hide entered text with a mask character (an asterisk or a big dot). This makes it great for querying...

Hellcore Mailer 0.6 released

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:57:25 +0100

It's finally here! There were a lot of changes and fixes, so here's only a brief list of most important things:

Better, more complete translation
New address book
Real newsgroups tree
New ways to attach files, for example by dragging attachments...