Comments on: Five great free Delphi components we use http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/ Our products, programming & business. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:41:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: Tobias Gurock http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-3307 Tobias Gurock Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:43:58 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-3307 Hi Michael, I normally document the .NET library first in Visual Studio. Visual Studio helps you a lot with the XML tags, function parameters etc. Since all three libraries have nearly the same API I then take the .NET API documentation, copy it to the Delphi and Java source files and change them a bit (renaming the function parameters etc.). That's why all libraries use XML as documentation format. I think you can also edit your documentation directly in doc-o-matic and doc-o-matic then inserts the generated text into your source code. I'm not sure how well this works though. Hi Michael,

I normally document the .NET library first in Visual Studio. Visual Studio helps you a lot with the XML tags, function parameters etc. Since all three libraries have nearly the same API I then take the .NET API documentation, copy it to the Delphi and Java source files and change them a bit (renaming the function parameters etc.). That’s why all libraries use XML as documentation format.

I think you can also edit your documentation directly in doc-o-matic and doc-o-matic then inserts the generated text into your source code. I’m not sure how well this works though.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-3280 Michael Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:35:38 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-3280 Tobias, thanks for answering. I know doc-o-matic (meaning, I am aware of it's existence ;)), but my question was specifically regarding an IDE wizard/extensions that makes adding comments to the source code easier. E.g. so one does not have to type things like the tags by hand every time, or automatic indenting of new comment lines. I don't find any info regarding such an IDE extension one the doc-o-matic website, although I am going to check out the trial now. Or are you doing that manually and I am expecting just too much comfort? ;) Tobias,

thanks for answering. I know doc-o-matic (meaning, I am aware of it’s existence ;) ), but my question was specifically regarding an IDE wizard/extensions that makes adding comments to the source code easier. E.g. so one does not have to type things like the tags by hand every time, or automatic indenting of new comment lines. I don’t find any info regarding such an IDE extension one the doc-o-matic website, although I am going to check out the trial now.

Or are you doing that manually and I am expecting just too much comfort? ;)

]]> By: Tobias Gurock http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-3127 Tobias Gurock Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:33:44 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-3127 Here's the link: http://www.toolsfactory.com/ Here’s the link:

http://www.toolsfactory.com/

]]> By: Tobias Gurock http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-3126 Tobias Gurock Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:32:52 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-3126 Hi Michael, Sorry for the late reply. We use doc-o-matic for our documentation (for both the API documentation and the Console manual). It's pretty expensive ($1000 if I recall correctly) but it's very customizable and works with Java, Delphi and .NET. It's by far not perfect (at least the version 4 which we are using) but overall I can recommend it. Hi Michael,

Sorry for the late reply. We use doc-o-matic for our documentation (for both the API documentation and the Console manual). It’s pretty expensive ($1000 if I recall correctly) but it’s very customizable and works with Java, Delphi and .NET. It’s by far not perfect (at least the version 4 which we are using) but overall I can recommend it.

]]> By: Michael http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-2971 Michael Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:09:50 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-2971 Your Delphi source code (SmartInspect.pas etc.) is very well documented. I wonder what tools you guys are using for that? Any useful IDE extensions etc. that I am not aware of? Your Delphi source code (SmartInspect.pas etc.) is very well documented. I wonder what tools you guys are using for that? Any useful IDE extensions etc. that I am not aware of?

]]> By: Bill http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Bill Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:40:25 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-842 Hey I'm using Indy Sockets 10.1.5 Do they have a new version that doesn't have memory leaks? They don't lose lots a memory only a few bytes that are not that significant. Any help will be appriciated. Thanks Bill Hey I’m using Indy Sockets 10.1.5

Do they have a new version that doesn’t have memory leaks? They don’t lose lots a memory only a few bytes that are not that significant.

Any help will be appriciated.

Thanks
Bill

]]> By: software.gurock.com » Software activation and registration servers http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-698 software.gurock.com » Software activation and registration servers Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:30:44 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-698 [...] Okay, no problem I thought. You have a 14-day grace period in which you don’t have to activate Delphi. So I continued without activation and started Delphi. The first thing I usually do after installing Delphi is to install the third-party components that we use. So I opened the SynEdit Delphi package, compiled it and pressed the “Install” button. Guess what? Without activating Turbo Delphi Professional, it behaves like Turbo Delphi Express and I was unable to install any packages and use any third-party components. [...] [...] Okay, no problem I thought. You have a 14-day grace period in which you don’t have to activate Delphi. So I continued without activation and started Delphi. The first thing I usually do after installing Delphi is to install the third-party components that we use. So I opened the SynEdit Delphi package, compiled it and pressed the “Install” button. Guess what? Without activating Turbo Delphi Professional, it behaves like Turbo Delphi Express and I was unable to install any packages and use any third-party components. [...]

]]> By: Xepol http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-627 Xepol Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:59:45 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-627 Indy is great, as long as you ignore the memory leaks due to bad design that have stayed there over a year. SynEdit is nice, but tough to support since languages are defined in code instead of a script. TRegExpr is great and addresses a pretty major omission in the basic Delphi library. DevCo should consider adding this to basic Delphi libraries (although I question the wisdom of basing core features on third party code, this isn't per-se a core feature like basic math, so should be much safer to add) Indy is great, as long as you ignore the memory leaks due to bad design that have stayed there over a year. SynEdit is nice, but tough to support since languages are defined in code instead of a script.

TRegExpr is great and addresses a pretty major omission in the basic Delphi library. DevCo should consider adding this to basic Delphi libraries (although I question the wisdom of basing core features on third party code, this isn’t per-se a core feature like basic math, so should be much safer to add)

]]> By: JD http://blog.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/comment-page-1/#comment-625 JD Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:30:26 +0000 http://software.gurock.com/postings/five-great-free-delphi-components-we-use/179/#comment-625 Thumps up for Indy! I used it for an application which needed to access web server/ftp server and it worked like a charm! I worked on only one Delphi project and I am amazed by quality of the components available to Delphi developers (free/not-free). It's the best environment out there for a developer! Thumps up for Indy!
I used it for an application which needed to access web server/ftp server and it worked like a charm!

I worked on only one Delphi project and I am amazed by quality of the components available to Delphi developers (free/not-free). It’s the best environment out there for a developer!

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