- EymBarcodeReader.ocx Decode Bar Code — Barcodes (the approach to encoding data in black-and-white bars) are widely used since their invention in the middle of the XXth century. They have proven themselves to be a universal and reliable mean in cases when a small amount of uniform significant data is to be associated with multiple things and then processed automatically. Though in last years the usage of barcodes has gradually yielded to distant…
- VBto 2.30, Visual Basic No More — For its time, Visual Basic 6 was an excellent tool. It was easy to learn, write and read, had reasonably good visual forms designer, allowed easy usage of ActiveX controls... Unfortunately, those times have gone. Now, there is .NET, there is VC++ MFC, there are other IDE with form designers, like Delphi. There is no place for good old VB6. Old projects are to be translated to new environments, but it is not an easy…
- Addict 3.5, Spell-Checked! — Addict Component Suite is a set of VCL components for Borland Delphi/C++ Builder (wide range of Borland/Turbo IDE versions are supported). The suite is designed to solve spell-checking issues once and for all: virtually any scenario of checking is easily supported with highly customizable controls. The basic option is the dialog-based spell-check: you click on the «check» item and see the dialog with misspelled words shown one…
- Software List — Creating a software directory initially seems to be an unreasonably expensive and complicated project. You need to come up with the business logic, hire a team of developers or spend a whole lot of time programming the solution yourself, open merchant accounts, find software vendors and so forth. A serious undertaking by all means, that’s for sure. That’s why a lot of people turn away from this…
- PDF In-The-Box ActiveX 3.12 — Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is probably one of the most popular cross-platform, display resolution-independent means of document exchange. The ability to generate reports and output data as PDF has become a standard feature for a great many of desktop and web applications. If you are a developer willing to have an easy way of generating nice PDF reports or any other documents directly from the code of your…
- HtmlCapture ActiveX Control, Web Snapshot In A Few Lines Of Code — Taking shots (images) of web-pages is an often and highly usable programming task. There are scores of possible usages, from large web-archiving suits to small one-time testing scripts; but the general purpose snapshot tools (either PrintScreen or specialized software) aren’t very good for the task. If you want one powerful yet compact solution for the problem which can be used virtually with any programming language, take a look…
- AS HDTEMP WIN32 DLL 2.1 — Although modern hardware is built to stay for long and average MTBF values are quite impressive, some components are still fragile if placed in harsh conditions. Hard drives are crucial components of our computers, as they hold the most important — valuable information that costs much more than the medium is stored on. If you are developing an application that intensively uses the hard drive to retrieve, write or cache data…
- RIT 1.6, Check the Intelligence — Typical software or paper-based «intelligence tests» are a one-time thing; once you’ve run through a test, the next run will show incorrect results. Moreover, once you’ve run through one of intelligence tests, other similar ones will also become «inappropriate» for you. That’s because of the usual approach to intelligence testing: a set of static constant puzzles and questions — you see them…
- PolyEdit Word Processor - a powerful alternative to conventional word processing tools — If you have been growing increasingly irritated by the monstrous size and obvious excessiveness of each new version of Microsoft Word that you tried over the past few years, you have definitely wondered about the existence of efficient alternatives. If you can relate to the above, you should definitely check out PolyEdit Word Processor. The name of the software speaks for itself — it’s a versatile word processing application…
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