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Wed, Jul 18 2007 4:34 PMPermanent Link

David
I just finished rebuilding my IDE and reinstalling all the programs on my
new PC.

I took a screenshot http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/Desktop.jpg

Anyone else care to share a pic of their IDE?
Wed, Jul 18 2007 4:53 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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David,

<< I took a screenshot http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/Desktop.jpg

Anyone else care to share a pic of their IDE? >>

My God, man.  How many 3rd party components do you have installed ?  I have
2 - EDB and EDB Utils in D7. Smiley

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Wed, Jul 18 2007 5:30 PMPermanent Link

Steve Forbes

Team Elevate Team Elevate

Hi Tim,

He has a scheduled task to boot Delphi at 2am so that it has started up by
the time he starts work Wink

> I have 2 - EDB and EDB Utils in D7. Smiley

Understandable Smilebut all "application" developers will have quite a few (I
know I do)

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Best regards

Steve

"Tim Young [Elevate Software]" <timyoung@elevatesoft.com> wrote in message
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> David,
>
> << I took a screenshot http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/Desktop.jpg
>
> Anyone else care to share a pic of their IDE? >>
>
> My God, man.  How many 3rd party components do you have installed ?  I
> have 2 - EDB and EDB Utils in D7. Smiley
>
> --
> Tim Young
> Elevate Software
> www.elevatesoft.com
>

Wed, Jul 18 2007 7:37 PMPermanent Link

David
"Steve Forbes" <ozmosys@spamfreeoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

Understandable Smilebut all "application" developers will have quite a few (I
know I do)

Yeah, It looks like a lot but I need them all.  Smile

1st Class (Visual components)
CE Tools (interact with Windows CE PDAs)
DBISAM
ElevateDB
DigitalPersona interfaces (fingerprint reader)
ESBDates (time/date routines)
InfoPower (looking to phase out)
Multiline (stacked tabs on the component palette)
TMS Component Pack (the best deal for tons of components)
Venus (Only use one, the absolute best component for storing program and component
run-time settings)
Video (Free component to display webcam video)
SystemComponents (used to access Active Directory objects)
Triton2002 (used to send emails but I will be phasing these out)
Mitec System Info (The best components for system info)
Billenium Effects (cool visual effects)
WPTools (Full word processor)
SMImport (Best importer)
Addict (spell checker for WPTools)
AppControls (tons of nifty app components)
EAN45 (barcode components)
DiskControls (tons of nifty disk related components)
tplockbox (TurboPower encryption tools)
jpeg (jpeg component and QR Jpeg component)
Raize 3 (lots of components but I'm probably going to phase these out as well)
DevExpress QuantumGrid 6 Suite
DevExpress ExpressPrinting System
DevExpress VerticalGrid

See?  Not that many.  Smile
Thu, Jul 19 2007 2:53 AMPermanent Link

Roy Lambert

NLH Associates

Team Elevate Team Elevate

David


At the risk of giving you a straight line - where's Venus from?

Roy Lambert
Thu, Jul 19 2007 5:15 AMPermanent Link

Steve Forbes

Team Elevate Team Elevate

Hi Roy,

Dunno about Venus, but take a look at StorageLib from Deep Software
(http://www.deepsoftware.ru/), .. one of the best, most stable component
suites I have. Enables you to save anything to Registry, INI, XML, Bin
seamlessly (i.e. swap from one to another), including auto-form position and
state, and component properties.

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Best regards

Steve

"Roy Lambert" <roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> David
>
>
> At the risk of giving you a straight line - where's Venus from?
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Thu, Jul 19 2007 1:37 PMPermanent Link

David
On 7/19/07 2:50 AM, in article
4C9DDABA-EEA1-4606-A14A-894FFB208520@news.elevatesoft.com, "Roy Lambert"
<roy.lambert@skynet.co.uk> wrote:

> David
>
>
> At the risk of giving you a straight line - where's Venus from?
>
> Roy Lambert
>

Venus was a component suite by Opaque Software.  They haven't done an update
in years and it looks as if they let their domain name lapse as well.  As a
matter of fact, I had to contact them for a Delphi 7 update which they
generously provided free of charge.

Here is a screenshot of xoPersist

http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/oxPersist.jpg

It has been the best settings storage component I have looked at.  They also
had the standard things like buttons, graphic button, splitters, and such.
What was really cool about their software was they had this 'convert'
function.  For example, you already had a bunch of buttons on your form.
You could right-click on a button and convert it to another button.

http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/convert.jpg

That was nifty and convenient for a single component conversion.

I contacted another company to purchase the Venus IP since it wasn't being
developed but nothing came of it.
Thu, Jul 19 2007 2:09 PMPermanent Link

David
On 7/19/07 5:13 AM, in article
1DED7919-A306-4F82-B8CD-B6E91C644946@news.elevatesoft.com, "Steve Forbes"
<ozmosys@spamfreeoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

> Hi Roy,
>
> Dunno about Venus, but take a look at StorageLib from Deep Software
> (http://www.deepsoftware.ru/), .. one of the best, most stable component
> suites I have. Enables you to save anything to Registry, INI, XML, Bin
> seamlessly (i.e. swap from one to another), including auto-form position and
> state, and component properties.

Thanks for the heads up about the other component.  I think LMD has
something similar as well.

Eventually, I'll have to find something else since oxPersist doesn't work in
anything above D7.

The problem is, well the problems are, I've already paid for Venus Smile I
like the way it works, and I prefer the layout.

I know the current trend is to have a separate non-visual component for
everything.  I do like how Deep Software Storage has the option for
encryption but I don't want to add another 5 non-visual components.  I also
don't like how it lists all of the components on the left side.  I like how
oxPersist only shows the stored items.  Of course, oxPersist doesn't allow
the storage of arbitrary strings, so I have a tab page with nothing but text
fields to store strings.  DSS has that functionality included.

http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/oxPersist.jpg

Of course, I can't stick with D5 Enterprise and D7 Pro forever, so I'll
eventually have to switch to a more modern storage component and it will
probably be DSS.


Thu, Jul 19 2007 7:53 PMPermanent Link

Steve Forbes

Team Elevate Team Elevate

Hi David,

> I know the current trend is to have a separate non-visual component for
> everything.

The non-visual component is simply a synonym for an instantiated class
instance with a lifetime controlled by the owning form. In many cases (with
StorageLib) I don't use the drag-n-drop components, preferring to create
instances via code, .. works just a well.
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Best regards

Steve

"David" <dpuett@mac.com> wrote in message
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> On 7/19/07 5:13 AM, in article
> 1DED7919-A306-4F82-B8CD-B6E91C644946@news.elevatesoft.com, "Steve Forbes"
> <ozmosys@spamfreeoptusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi Roy,
>>
>> Dunno about Venus, but take a look at StorageLib from Deep Software
>> (http://www.deepsoftware.ru/), .. one of the best, most stable component
>> suites I have. Enables you to save anything to Registry, INI, XML, Bin
>> seamlessly (i.e. swap from one to another), including auto-form position
>> and
>> state, and component properties.
>
> Thanks for the heads up about the other component.  I think LMD has
> something similar as well.
>
> Eventually, I'll have to find something else since oxPersist doesn't work
> in
> anything above D7.
>
> The problem is, well the problems are, I've already paid for Venus Smile I
> like the way it works, and I prefer the layout.
>
> I know the current trend is to have a separate non-visual component for
> everything.  I do like how Deep Software Storage has the option for
> encryption but I don't want to add another 5 non-visual components.  I
> also
> don't like how it lists all of the components on the left side.  I like
> how
> oxPersist only shows the stored items.  Of course, oxPersist doesn't allow
> the storage of arbitrary strings, so I have a tab page with nothing but
> text
> fields to store strings.  DSS has that functionality included.
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/dpuett/oxPersist.jpg
>
> Of course, I can't stick with D5 Enterprise and D7 Pro forever, so I'll
> eventually have to switch to a more modern storage component and it will
> probably be DSS.
>
>
>

Fri, Jul 20 2007 3:29 PMPermanent Link

Tim Young [Elevate Software]

Elevate Software, Inc.

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Steve,

<< He has a scheduled task to boot Delphi at 2am so that it has started up
by the time he starts work Wink>>

Smiley

<< Understandable Smilebut all "application" developers will have quite a few
(I know I do) >>

Actually I was just pointing out how "out of synch" I am with the normal
application developer. Smiley

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Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

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