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December 20, 2005

Delphi Components I Use

I don't use many Delphi components and third party libraries, but here is my list anyway.

At the architectural level I've used FastMM4 even before it was included in Delphi 2006 and the exceptions handling code in Jedi's JCL , plus a few more classes from the same library. For compression/decompression I've used Abbrevia . For some advanced word processing and search code I've used SysTools . Both libraries were from TurboPower and are now open source (although development seems stalled).

For XML and XSLT processing I tend to use libXML and libXLST, with the libxml2-pas Delphi interface unit. For Internet processing I rely on Indy (versions 8 and 9 in currently deployed projects), which is included in Delphi. In the past I've used XDOM-Pascal (from philo.de and also included in recent versions of Delphi) and Xml Partner (formerly from Turbo Power).

For Firebird database connectivity I've recently used UIB in a couple of projects. To have an object-oriented database architecture I like InstantObjects . For the user interface I've used SynEdit and now UniSynEdit (with Unicode support)

IDE plug-ins I use include CrossKylix (for compiling Kylix code from the Win32 Delphi IDE on a Win32 computer), CFBuild (for CF support in Delphi 2005), GExperts , and my own Cantools .

posted by marcocantu @ 2:05AM | 11 Comments [0 Pending]

11 Comments

Delphi Components I Use

Internet/XML: 
http://www.nsoftware.com/ipworks/technologies.aspx?
sku=ipd6-a
CoolTrayIcon, SimpleTimer: 
http://subsimple.com/delphi.asp

Roman

Comment by roman modic [http://modicr.blogspot.com] on December 21, 11:14

Delphi Components I Use

I generally use VirtualTrees, UIB and Graphics32 and
internally developed components. Most others are
phased out.

Perhaps you can show the URLs of the tools so people
interested can check them out.

http://www.delphi-gems.com/VirtualTreeview/
http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB
http://graphics32.org/wiki/

Comment by Ritsaert Hornstra [http://www.continuit.nl/] on December 22, 13:15

Delphi Components I Use

I think some links for the components would be great
on this section.

Some links are:

<ul>
  <li><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fastmm/">FastMM</a></li>
  <li><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/jcl/">JCL</a></li>
  <li><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpabbrevia/">Abbrevia</a></li>
  <li><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpsystools/">SysTools</a></li>
  <li><a
href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/"></a>libxml2
for pascal</li>
  <li><a
href="http://www.progdigy.com/modules.php?name=UIB"></a>UIB:
Unified Interbase</li>
  <li><a
href="http://www.instantobjects.org/"></a>Instant
Objects</li>
  <li><a
href="http://synedit.sourceforge.net/"></a>SynEdit</li>
  <li><a
href="http://mh-nexus.de/unisynedit.htm"></a>UniSynEdit</li>
  <li><a href="http://www.gexperts.org/"></a>GExperts</li>
  <li><a
href="http://www.marcocantu.com/tools/default.htm"></a>Cantools</li>
</ul>

Comment by Juan Antonio Castillo Hernández [http://www.clubdelphi.com/users/jachguate] on December 22, 21:32

Delphi Components I Use

I've added the links above, thanks.

Comment by Marco Cantù [http://www.marcocantu.com] on December 24, 01:32

Delphi Components I Use

Hi Marco, For xml parsing I have been looking at
openXML but was interested in looking at libxml2. 
However, all the examples and doc on the site are in C
and using pointers.  I am new to Delphi and find it
hard to translate these examples to Delphi.  I was
wondering if you might post some examples of how to
use libxml2 on your blog or in the articles section. 
I did find the site that has the pascal headers for
libxml2 and it did have some examples in the zip file,
but they did not cover how to walk the XML getting
your data out or on how to use the very easy and
powerful XPath to parse out data from your XML.

Comment by Jeff Carbello [http://www.dvdorganizer.com] on January 15, 19:56

Delphi Components I Use

 I am Developing win 32 Appication in Delphi 2005. I 
have to use CoolTrayIcon Component in the 
Application .Because its a third party tool so i 
don't know how to use it .Could u Please Help me out 
in finding this Problem.
Regards
Ravi

Comment by Ravi on September 27, 16:13

Delphi Components I Use - CrossKylix

Hi Marco

Could you please give us feedback on the usage of
CrossKylix? I'm still using D7 (for some projects),
and it would be really great if I could 'convert' all
my apps to make'm work on Linux, especially things
like AppServer, TCPServer..

A tutorial would also be very welcome :)

Regards
Mz

Comment by Mo3ez [http://www.novosys.net] on November 20, 16:41

Delphi Components I Use

 my favorite delphi components are kbmMW from 
http://www.components4developers.com

Comment by Carl on February 24, 10:01

Delphi Components I Use

 my favorite delphi components are kbmMW from 
http://www.components4developers.com

Comment by Carl on February 24, 10:43

Delphi Components I Use

Can someone give me a component or technic for working
with xml inside dll?


urzoor@sapo.pt

Comment by Ur Zoor on April 26, 14:41

Delphi Components I Use

My favorite and the most useful from the Delphi components is 
UniDAC: https://www.devart.com/unidac/
But also there are other Delphi components for different databases.

Comment by Tim Lewis on November 17, 20:54

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