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TcyComponents v.2.4 added

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

Free packages of Delphi Components. Most popular components: TcyResizer, move and resize your components at run-time with 2 lines of code. TcyWebBrowser, navigate/load/save html files easily.

Product License: FWS
Source: Included
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D7

AlphaControls v.6.50 Beta updated

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:05:00 +0300

A package of standard and unique skinable VCL's for professional UI design development using AlphaSkins. AlphaControls is an easy-to-use universal and powerful tool for developing original skinned and non-skinned business/media applications. We have also added some properties and components, which make AlphaControls (and the applications that use them) unique.

Features:

Skins are upgradeable and have a very simple structure.
The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time.
Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects.
It is possible to embed any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment.
Most standard edit controls are skinned automatically by TsSkinProvider component.
TPNGImageList component support (if USEPNG key defined).
Unicode support (see help-file for details).
Billenium effects and TMS Unicode Component Pack full support.
Many more...

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: With Nag-Screen

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

VCL Skin v.5.10 updated

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:05:00 +0300

VCLSkin is a component to create skinnable user interface for Delphi/C++Builder application, It is easy to use, just put one component on mainform, Vclskin will skin whole application without source code modification.

Vclskin is leader in this field, Vclskin support most third-part controls in market, there isn't a competitor was able to support 3rd-part controls as many as Vclskin.

Very easy to use, Plug and Play;
Support SDIform and MDIForm;
Support Delphi Standard Controls;
Support embeded form.
Support dock form.
Support DLL form.
Support most third-party controls.
Support QuantumGrid 5, Raize Components, InfoPower Studio, 1stClass Studio, TMS components.
Support Toolbar2000, TBX.
Support TMS Unicode Component Pack.
Support FastReport, Quick Report.
Support 2 skin file in applcation.
Change skin files at runtime.
Over 70 build-in skin files.
Get thousands skin files from XP theme Styles.
Convert XP theme file to Vclskin skin files.

news feature in V4:

Support scrollbar of combobox drop-down list.
Support Billenium Effects 4 perfectly.

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Demo only

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB5 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

AlphaControls Lite Edition v.6.50 Beta updated

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:20:00 +0300

Package contains 13 absolutely free and fully-functional components from the AlphaControls package (TsSkinManager, TsSkinProvider, TsEdit, TsCheckBox, TsPanel, TsButton, TsScrollBar, TsLabel, TsWebLabel, TsBitBtn, TsComboBox, TsListBox and TsGauge). By using these components you can see the basic ideas behind AlphaControls which distinguish these components from similar packages. Small demo with sources included in this package.

It is possible to embed any skins within the Exe-file for easy deployment;
Skins are upgradeable and have a very simple structure;
Drawing of components is produced in several layers, so components may be alpha-blended, can have nice realistic borders, shadows and some other beautiful effects;
Skinning of most Standard edit controls by the TsSkinProvider component is available also.
The elements of each control are calculated in real-time, so any control can be freely moved and resized at run-time;
PNG-glyphs support in the buttons;
Billenium effects support;
HUE offset and saturation of current skin colors changing;
Working with the components is very simple and intuitive...

Product License: FW
Source: None
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

BusinessSkinForm v.8.0 updated

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:05:00 +0300

BusinessSkinForm VCL help you to create applications with skins.

Features:

Office 2010 Ribbon UI control (for SDI and MDI applications)
Office 2010 Ribbon UI Application Menu control
Full Office 2010 skins + additional skins with Ribbon UI elements
open architecture for skins
application can have one or different skins for windows
run-time skin change
nonrectangular, dynamically resizable windows
default style for forms, controls and menus
custom buttons in form caption
MDI support
cool external glow effects for buttons in caption of the form (as in Vista)
skin support for menus and hints
advanced hints with title, image and multiline text
skin support for controls (label, buttons, speedbuttons, gauge, trackbar, panel, checkbox, radiobox, tab and page controls, grids controls, listbox, checklistbox, memo, edit, currency edit, spinedit, dateedit, combobox, treeview, listview, shell controls and others)
full skin support for all standard DB controls + additional DB controls (navigator, grid, ctrlgrid, edit, memo, combobox, listbox, lookup controls and others)
skin support for all elements in all controls and forms
skin support for shell dialogs and many others dialogs
skin support for printer dialogs
full skin support for all standard dialogs
skin support for messages
layered borders for forms
Windows 2k, XP, Vista, Windows7 system alphablending support for forms, dialogs, messages, menus, hints, controls
stored skins in *.exe file
creating your skins with special program
zip-compression support for skins
zlib-compression support for skins
tested in Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7
cool skins collections with full rights to use and distribute from your site.

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Trial (work while IDE is running)

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB5 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

TThumbsBrowser v.1.0 added

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

TThumbsBrowser is a comprehensive, fast and effective solution to add picture browsing capability to your application with no extra coding.

This browser has a complete set of features to handle the visualization, search and manipulation of a large number of picture files and also allows a good degree of flexibility.

Using the ImageEn library I/O, the browser supports many picture formats. RAW formats for each new digital camera are easily added by the integration of the imageEn library with the free open-source DCRaw library by Dave Coffin.

It's the perfect solution for Delphi developers to let the users of their applications browse the picture files on their computer. ue to the extreme flexibility, it can also be easily customized to fit own needs.

Main features include:

Displays thumbnails of files smoothly without making the GUI flicker.
Thumbs creation works in background without affecting user interaction
Smart Browsing: loads first the thumbnails that you are actually displaying
Browse horizontally and vertically. The number of rows and columns is automatically calculated.
Thumbnails have built-in checkboxes, rotate buttons, and info buttons (can be used to attach any popup menu as well).
It is possible to customize the look and feel of each thumb using the provided onitemdraw events.
Sort by file name, date, exif date, size, width and height, type, etc..
Filter by file type or by any Search criteria

Also includes built-in file operations:

Allows Drag/Drop (can be used in conjunction with the drag-drop components suite)
Rename Files
Convert between file types
Copy/Cut/Paste files
Rotate files (jpg lossless rotation supported)
Send pictures to printer

Another useful feature, which improves greatly the performances is the ability to save the generated thumbnails to a database for faster retrieving.

This is possible thanks to the integration with the embedded nexus database engine which is available for free from the developers.

A compiler option allows to disable the database support in case you are not interested in having it.

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D5 D6 D7

TRGBCurves v.3.0 added

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

TRGBCurves is an interactive component to create curves for color and exposure correction in digital images.

The component provides convenient methods to apply the curves to both full color 24/32 bits and grayscale� pictures.

"Curve Correction" is used in professional image editors, such as Adobe Photoshop and Corel Paint Shop Pro.

The component can be easily dropped onto any form, it takes very few lines of code to integrate the component into your project. No coding is required to create curves.

The user clicks on the diagram to create a new curve point, can click on a point and move it, interacting with the mouse to change the curve appearance. A simple right-click removes a point.

Changes to the attached Bitmap image can be invoked any time the curve changes. A OnCurveChange event notification is delivered for this purpose.

Beside the standard method to create curves, it is also possible to create mathematical curves, based on formulas. �It is possible for example to create a gamma correction curve, knowing the gamma correction formula.

Main Features:

Creates a curve for each color channel and�for the luminance channel as well.
Smooth curve shapes because of the spline interpolation.
Native support for ImageEn TIEBitmap
Native Support for ImageEn TImageEnView (Selections and Layers as well), with fast preview
Supports standard TBitmap as well
Curves can also be built from Mathematical functions
Displays Histograms from pictures. A method to load the histogram from picture
Saves and Reloads Curves To/From a text file or to/from a INI file.

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D5 D6 D7

TImageEnPaintEngine v.3.0 added

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

TImageENPaintEngine is a powerful, fast, easy to use and versatile Paint Engine for the ImageEn graphics library.

Works in conjunction with ImageEnView or any descendant (i.e. imageEn).

TImageEnPaintEngine is a delphi class that descends from TThread. It relies on a separate thread in order to offer high real-time painting performances.

The engine has been specifically designed to interact with any TImageenView component. By simply calling the StartPainting / StopPainting methods, you will be able to provide powerful digital painting abilities to the users of your image editing application.

A very detailed demo project will show you how to program and customize the engine's behavior at its best.

Main Features:

Beside using the default round brush, it's possible to load one from any picture file.
Works in different modes: Color, Texture, Retouch (Sharpen, Blur, Lighten, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Saturate, Desaturate), Clone, Erase, History tool
Supports ImageEn's Layers and Selections.
Automatically scroll the imageenview component when mouse is near the window borders.
Very Easy to use and setup
Supports Pressure Sensitive Tablets
Highly precise and fast
Supports many blending modes and you can set the Transparence level you need.
Supports Dithering for high quality painting.
Ability to add your own custom retouch function

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D5 D6 D7

DXScene v.3.00 added

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

DXScene is 3D hardware accelerated graphics library Delphi/C++ Builder/Lazarus

Hardware accelerated graphics on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux using DirectX or OpenGL
3D and 2D graphical editor integrated in IDE
Powerful 3D layer containing items such as Cube, Sphere, Cone, Plane, Mesh, free Camera and Lights
Mesh object have WPF mesh data format and 3DS, MD3 file export tool
Powerful 2D vector engine like Adobe Flash or Microsoft WPF includes high quality shapes and controls like window, label, button, checkbox, textbox and more
Advanced GUI engine - window, button, textbox, numberbox, memo, anglebox, list box and much much more
Advanced skinning engine based on vector graphics styles. Cool exists styles - Dark, Modern, Vista, Air.
DXScene can be used to create hardware accelerated 2D applications with cool animation like CoverFlow, layer and more
Easy to use time-based animation and transition effects
Layered windows, Jpeg, Png, Tiff and Gif format read/write support, fast thumbnail creation
Realtime mode for games and realtime simulations
DXScene can be used as development tools for SCADA, GIS, CAD and KIOSK applications
Physics simulation using Newton Game Dynamics
Cross-platform solution available on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Trial (work while IDE is running)

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D6 D7

VGScene v.3.00 added

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

VGScene speeds the development of all graphical application, providing: a graphical editor integrated in IDE, graphical objects, simplify animation, advanced windows and controls, maximum performance, skinning engine, bitmap effects. VGScene can be used as development tools for SCADA, GIS, CAD and KIOSK applications.

Powerful vector engine like Adobe Flash or Microsoft WPF
Cross-platform solution available on Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X and Linux
Fast realtime anti-aliased vector graphics, resolution independent, alpha blending, gradient and special visual filling
WYSIWYG design-time and run-time designer and property editors
Advanced GUI engine - window, button, textbox, numberbox, memo, anglebox, list box and much much more
Advanced skinning engine based on vector graphics styles. Cool exists styles - Dark, Modern, Vista, Air.
VGScene provides shape primitives for 2D graphics along with a built-in set of brushes, pens, geometries, and transforms
Advanced animations techniques calculated in background thread. Easy to use, accuracy, minimal CPU usage and automatic FPS correction
VGScene provides for bitmap effects, however, they are rendered in software. Special effects such as dropshadows and blurring are built in.
VGScene can be used as development tools for SCADA, GIS, CAD and KIOSK applications
Path object have SVG, WPF path data format
Very easy to use and powerful layouts. The child elements are recursively arranged by their parents.
Layered forms, unicode enabled
Jpeg, Png, Tiff and Gif format read/write support on Windows and Mac OS X
Fast thumbnail creation and image processing

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Trial (work while IDE is running)

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

TJabberClient v.1.0 added

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

Simple Jabber component for Delphi 2009.

Product License: FWS
Source: Included
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2009

WinI2C-DDC Lite v.3.51 updated

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:05:00 +0300

WinI2C/DDC is a powerful solution that allows to control display devices in Windows environment via DDC/CI protocol. It allows to send DDC/CI commands via standard video cable (VGA, DVI, HDMI) and control display devices that support DDC/CI protocol: CRT/LCD monitors, projectors, plasma displays etc.

WinI2C/DDC library is compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, it supports many types of video chips (nVidia, ATI, Intel, SiS, etc) and configurations with several monitors.

WinI2C/DDC is the fastest and cost-effective way to create such software as color calibration solutions or OSD-replacement utilities. WinI2C/DDC library can be very useful in many projects, for example, it can be integrated into any asset management software for providing all necessary information about display devices installed.

WinI2C/DDC API allows to perform all necessary operations with display devices:

Enumeration of all monitors installed.
Getting DDC/CI monitor capabilities.
Reading EDID (extended display identification data) directly from a monitor. EDID contains basic information about a monitor and its capabilities, including vendor information, maximum image size, color characteristics, factory pre-set timings, frequency range limits, and character strings for the monitor name and serial number.
Reading and changing such monitor settings as brightness, contrast, screen position, size, colors gain, etc.
Execution of any commands that display device supports via DDC/CI.

Product License: SW
Source: None
File Status: Evaluation (time-limit)

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB4 CB5 CB6 D2 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7

JEDI Visual Component Library v.3.39 updated

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:35:01 +0300

JEDI Visual Component Library (JVCL), a library which consists of a large collection (currently ca 600) visual and non-visual components which can be instantly reused in your Delphi, Kylix and C++ Builder projects.

Requires JEDI Code Library (JCL) to be installed.

Product License: FWS
Source: Included
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB5 CB6 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

JEDI Code Library (JCL) v.2.1.1.3536 updated

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:20:00 +0300

The JEDI Code Library consists of a large set of thoroughly tested and fully documented utility functions and non-visual classes which can be instantly reused in your Delphi and C++ Builder projects.

The library is built upon code donated from the JEDI community. It is reformatted to achieve a common look-and-feel, tested, documented and merged into the library. The library is grouped into several categories such as Strings, Files and I/O, Security, Math, Unicode and many, many more. The library is released to the public under the terms of the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and as such can be freely used in both freeware/shareware, open source and commercial projects.

Product License: FWS
Source: Included
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB5 CB6 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D5 D6 D7

WinI2C-DDC v.3.60 updated

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:20:00 +0300

WinI2C/DDC API allows to perform all necessary operations with display devices:

Enumeration of all monitors installed.
Getting DDC/CI monitor capabilities.
Reading EDID (extended display identification data) directly from a monitor. EDID contains basic information about a monitor and its capabilities, including vendor information, maximum image size, color characteristics, factory pre-set timings, frequency range limits, and character strings for the monitor name and serial number.
Reading and changing such monitor settings as brightness, contrast, screen position, size, colors gain, etc.
Execution of any commands that display device supports via DDC/CI.

Product License: SW
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Evaluation (time-limit)

Compatible with: C2k10 C2k6 C2k7 C2k9 CB4 CB5 CB6 D2 D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D3 D4 D5 D6 D7

Habari ActiveMQ Client Library and Component v.2.0 updated

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:50:00 +0300

Habari ActiveMQ Client is a library for Delphi and Free Pascal which provides easy access to Apache ActiveMQ, the most popular and powerful open source Message Broker and Enterprise Integration Patterns provider.

With Habari ActiveMQ Client, applications can connect to Apache ActiveMQ servers, subscribe to queues and topics, send and receive messages and objects, and work with transactions.

Here are some examples for software solutions built on top of a Message Broker like Apache ActiveMQ:

Intranet News Ticker Application: using the publish and subscribe communication model, news can be delivered to all registered client applications. The message sender works like a broadcast station, and does not care if clients don't listen.
Load Balancing: using the point-to-point or queuing model, many 'worker' applications can be installed on different computers. Every new message sent to the queue will be delivered only to one client. The server will keep messages until they are expired or delivered to a client.
Persistent Storage: messages and objects can be stored in the Object Broker and retrieved even after a restart.
Interprocess Communication: applications can use point-to-point messages to exchange information between each other even if the receiver currently is not running.

Product License: C
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Demo only

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D6 D7

Dotnet4Delphi v.3.0.00.68 added

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

DotNet4Delphi is an open source initiative by A-Dato. The goal of this project is to bring the .Net framework to Delphi Win32 applications.

DN4D enbables you to write Delphi code using the .Net syntax and to recompile this code 1-to-1 using Delphi Prism.

Many objects from these namespaces have been implemented:

System (for example: Object, DateTime, String)
System.Collections (for example: ArrayList, Dictionary, SortedList)
System.Collections.Generics (for example: List)
System.Globalization (for example: CultureInfo, DateTimeFormat, NumberFormat)
System.IO
System.Windows.Forms (for example: MessageBox, Control)
System.Reflection
System.Resources (ResourceManager, ResourceLoader, ResourceReader)
System.Runtime.Serialization
System.Drawing (Graphics, Brush, Bitmap, Font)

Product License: FWS
Source: Included
File Status: Fully functional

Compatible with: D2007 D2009 D2010

Habari OpenMQ Client v.1.2 added

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0300

Habari OpenMQ Client is a library for Delphi 6 to 2009 and Free Pascal which provides easy access to the Open Message Queue (OpenMQ) Message Broker. The library uses the Stomp message protocol and a plug-in architecture for communication libraries. It follows the specification of the JMS API for Message Oriented Middleware.

Open message queue is an enterprise quality, production ready, scalable messaging server. It provides a complete Java Message Service (JMS) implementation for message oriented system integration. In addition, Open MQ provides the additional enterprise features that are necessary for enterprise deployments, large and small. It gets its roots from Java Message Queue and provides all the features, functions and capabilities of the currently available licensed product: Java System Message Queue.

Product License: C
Source: On purchase/registration
File Status: Demo only

Compatible with: D2005 D2006 D2007 D2009 D2010 D6 D7