- Active Multimedia SFX Library — Three common types of media create digital content: text, image, and sound. They are similar as they can have various origins and various means, be used for various purposes and in various amounts. But the difference between the three types of content is the ease of production. As for text — anybody can write text, with any computer (or even without it), texts are easy to compile and rework; creating new images is harder, but with…
- 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…
- GNCutter32 1.1. Let a Professional Library Do It — Some obvious tasks in the area of «practical algorithms» seem to be easy at the first glance, but as you try to complete them, you more and more tend to think you can’t do it! A good example of that is a frequent material-cutting planning task, which is completely solved by the GNCutter32 library. The library’s most outstanding feature is that it is not just…
- 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…
- 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…
- Euphoria Programming Language, Software Development Made Easy — Do you like the modern software? I’d doubt that and don’t know anyone who does — today’s software sucks, to put it mildly; it’s crooked and works not the way it’s supposed to. If you were to re-write all the software that’s installed on your computer, you would have definitely made it a lot prettier, more natural and intuitive — simply better. Just because you know what…
- DecryptSQL, Conquer Encrypted Queries — Remember the plot of any blockbuster or spy movie you watched recently? A good guy pursues a bad but clever secret agent, almost captures him, but… Suddenly, the bad guy’s traces disappear, and the good guy has little or no clue of where the trace would continue. Dealing with someone else’s code is a lot similar. As soon as you decide you’ve figured it out, you may stumble upon a trick you…
- Managed Extensions for VCL - a great solution of the Delphi Win32/.NET communication problem — Anyone familiar with software development knows how different the .NET framework is compared with older development platforms. The problem of framework interoperability has been vexing many developers who wanted to use .NET components in their Delphi and C++ applications. Finally, there is a solution for the problem. Managed Extensions for VCL enables you to interact with any .NET languages (C#, Visual Basic.Net, JScript.Net, Delphi .Net and others) from your…
- Limnor Codeless Programming System - a high-tech constructor for quick and easy ad hoc programming — If you ever felt that you had a great programming idea, but you just didn’t know how to approach development and had had absolutely no programming experience before, rejoice! There are developers out there who care about people like you and want to share the joy of creating programs that really work with everybody around. Limonor Codeless Programming System is a unique solution that allows users to create their own fully functional…
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