It would be good to compile a new inventory here of Delphi FOSS components that are very useful, also with rare and difficult to find functionality and still maintained for the latest Delphi versions. Examples of rare components are for instance "TWAIN" scanning components, raw printing etc. Your comments added will make for a very valua...
After using AS2 for several years, I'm getting started with writing applications in AS3 (Flash9/Flash10). I've come to the point where I need some full sets of GUI components, and I need to decide which set I'm going to use. Back in the AS2 days, the built in components included with flash were pretty crappy - bloated filesize, slow, bug...
Similar to the Delphi FOSS component question, a commercial component directory will also be a valuable searchable resource. I invite you to contribute your expierience with your favourite commercial components and also share with us your experiences with commercial components that doesn't make the grade as well. Then there is the questi...
After solving my flicker issue, I wonder if there is a better closable Tabbed Pane, then the one that pops up on top by googling for closabletappedpane? (you recognize it by its processMouseEvents Method) I especially need one, that never flickers :-) Please post your experience, links with your own closable Tabbed Panes here. ...
I'm used to working in a Delphi and C# environment which seem to have a rich set of third party components available. I'm currently wanting to do cross-platform programming in C++ using either qt or wxwidgets. Is there a large market for third party components? I was looking at sourceforge and that doesn't seem to show much that is usefu...
Windows Forms allows you to develop Components, non-visual elements that can have a designer. Built-in components include the BackgroundWorker, Timer, and a lot of ADO .NET objects. It's a nice way to provide easy configuration of a complicated object, and it it enables designer-assisted data binding. I've been looking at WPF, and it ...
i have a flow panel that i'm adding extra items to it at runtime based on whether they have chosen to show all the items. that's all works fine; the expansion is controlled by a toolbar button. the trouble is we'd like the user to be able to move his mouse over the "+" sign to expand the section. initially i looked at TSpeedButton (...
I'm searching a C# component or code snipped that does something like that: I want to inform new users about the most important program functions if he opens a new window for example. It should be a box showing text (formated if possible) that is of course not modal and has some mechanism to 'go out of the way' if the user enters the te...
I'm looking for a word processing component for .NET that would act like an embedded MS Word in my WinForm/WPF .NET app. The main goal being for users to be able to create rich formatted text. I don't really want to have to write a highly custom RichTextBox component. Any suggestions? ...
I'm trying to use the combobox component for Flash. I can't get the change event to fire. My code is pretty much straight of of the adobe site (link below). The box gets populated but changing the value produces no trace output. What am I doing wrong? Thanks http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.h...
What are the implications of including a set of visual components released under a Mozilla Public License in a commercial application. Do I have any obligations? ...
I'm writing a lightweight game engine and while doing some research for it I've come across a number of compelling articles advocating the implementation of Game Objects through a "collection of components" model rather than an "inheiritance from concrete classes" model. There are lots of advantages: objects can be composed using data...
When developing custom ecommerce solutions, which "off the shelf" .NET based shipping components have you had luck with? It absolutely must give real-time shipping quotes and be easily integrated into a ASP.NET website. Ideally I'd like it to support most of the common US domestic shipping companies (UPS, FedEx, USPS, etc.). Thank...
This concept is new to me, and a colleague suggested it. Sadly, I had no idea what he was talking about. Can someone enlighten me? ...
I am looking to incorporate scanning as a way of collecting feedback from paper questionnaires in my desktop application (a feedback management app). Questionnaires are completed using tick or cross marks as well as free text. The questionnaires are designed using the applications' designer. I am looking for a components that will pick...
I develop a number of desktop Java applications using Swing, and while Swing is quite powerful (once you get the hang of it), there are still a lot of cases where I wish some advanced component was available right out of the box. For example, I'd really like to see easy-to-use components (without writing them myself, which I could do gi...
Is there an HTML color wheel that I can throw in my site that will return a value of the color when a user clicks on it? would make one myself but don't want to "re-invent the wheel" HILARIOUS(punny?) ...
Question number three in my quest to properly understand MVC before I implement it: I have two cases in mind: The primary application window needs to launch the preferences window. (One View invoking another View.) The primary Model for an application needs to access a property in the preferences Model. (One Model accessing another Mo...
How do you manage the third party components that is used in a .net project. I currently add a folder called references that contains all the dlls used and all the projects refer those from there. This folder in checked in along with the source code to source control. I wanted to know if there was a better approach that others were follo...
In a Delphi Form, I would like to replace one visual component with another. Example: I want to replace a Panel component with an ElPanel from a 3rd party package. I would like all identical properties and events of the first component to be transferred to the new one, and all the components that belong to the first component (e.g. Too...