Delphi

My Components

• TStringAlignGrid V2.1
  Enhanced TStringgrid component
• TMoon V2.0
  Astronomical and calendrical algorithms, a component showing the current moon phase, and as a demo application the Moontool.
• TCP/IP components V0.2
  Set of native Delphi TCP/IP components
• ICMP components V0.3
  TPing and TTraceRoute components
• TJPEGImage V1.3a
  JPEG TImage component

I've created a mailing list where I'll post update notifications for any of my components or programs. It's not for discussion, so you will only receive very few mails of this list.

All my components and programs are freeware, or to be more exact postcardware, that means you're free to use them as you like, and if you like them you can send me a nice picture postcard of your hometown. To all those who already send me one (or even gifts) a big thanks.

If you have any problems downloading the files you can also find them on the Delphi sites listed below.

My programs

The program is freeware, and the sources are included in the tcpip package (with one small exception, the command line interface is left out as it contains some company internal code); there's a Windows GUI version as well as a command line version (for batched use...), both for Windows '95 or NT, all in an about 200k zip archive.

And then there's the Moontool clone created with the moon component, an 900k zip archive which contains a full setup and the online help. The source code is in the Moon package.

Delphi resources on the web

• Borland
  The Communities at the Borland are a great resource of all kind of Delphi information, many articles, the official FAQ and tech infos. Also very useful are the Borland newsgroups where many volunteers answer the technical questions or discuss about Delphi or the other Borland products.

• Component libraries
  The first of the Delphi component library websites was the Delphi Super Page located in Poland with mirrors all over the world (e.g. try the german mirror at the University of Aachen), and it is still one of the best.

  Torry's Delphi Pages in Russia have the components sorted a bit better in my opinion, and also have a nicer design of their page.

  Another site worth visiting are the Delphi Pages - maybe not as many components, but instead also a forum and tech articles.

  Delphi ABC has also a good design, however the number of components available there is still rather small.

  Further sites worth visiting are VCL components, or with a broader range Programmers Heaven.

• General Links
  The Delphi Magazine is a very good monthly magazine containing lots of technical information.

  Richard collects quite a lot of good Delphi Informations on his page, all kinds of tech info and most of all lots of links to other websites.

  If you search for something like a Delphi magazine on the web have a look at The Unofficial Newsletter of Delphi Users originally started by Robert Vivrette.

  The JEDI project started to convert all those C header files of the WinAPI Borland left out to Delphi code, thus making them accessible to everyone. This effort has extended to a big free source code library.

  The Delphi Buglist is a private effort to list all those bugs in Delphi as well as workarounds or the versions the bug is present in.

  FreeVCS is a freeware version control system which makes it very easy to keep track of your source code versions, and as it is written in Delphi it also has full integration in the Delphi IDE.