Delphi Components

Miscellaneous components

This is a motley collection of mildly useful components:

TAbout: An "About" dialog box, with system and EXE information.
TCheckgroup: A component that contains a group of checkboxes.
TFileversioninfo: Helmut Schottmueller's component to extract information from an EXE's resources.
TMultilabel: A mulitline, multicolour, rotatable label component.
TNEdit: A simple numeric edit box component.
TOptionsdlg: A dialog box component to select an option from a list.
TShapeex: An extended TShape component, with lines and arrows.
TSlideBar: A VCL-based equivalent to the Win32 TTrackBar.
TSplash: A "Splash" dialog for the start of an application.

Upgrading

First, remove any previous Misc package from the component palette, then from your hard drive. Then proceed with installation.

Installation:

Delphi 1 & 2:

install the Misc components ('Misc/Misc_reg.pas')

Delphi 3 .. 5:

i. optional: open the appropriate project group (eg: 'Plot/Plot100_40.bpg')
ii. open the Misc design-time package (eg: 'Misc102_40.bpl' = 'Misc/Misc102_40.dpk')
iii. compile Misc and install it

Usage:

Click and drop any of the components on a form in the normal Delphic manner.

Help File

There are no help files yet.

Download Miscellaneous Components 1.02.

TPlot components

Purpose:

Fast scientific and engineering plotting, storage and analysis of data.

Upgrading

First, remove any previous TPlot package from the component palette, then from your hard drive. Then proceed with installation.

Installation:

TPlot requires the 'Misc' package for several utilities. If you define 'GIF' or 'PNG' in 'Plot.inc', then it will also require TGifImage(http://www.melander.dk) and/or TPngImage (http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png/); also check out the 'GifPng_Rxx.dpk' project.

Delphi 1 & 2:

install the Misc components ('Misc/Misc_reg.pas')
install the TPlot components ('Plot/Plot_reg.pas')

Delphi 3 .. 5:

i. optional: open the appropriate project group (eg: 'Plot/Plot100_40.bpg')
ii. open the Misc design-time package (eg: 'Misc102_40.bpl' = 'Misc/Misc102_40.dpk')
iii. compile Misc and install it
iv. open the TPlot design-time package (eg: 'Plot110_40.bpl' = 'Plot/Plot110_40.dpk')
v. compile Plot and install it

BC++3 .. 5:

Installation is like Delphi 3..5, but open the file with the BCB postfix (eg: 'Plot/Plot110_30BCB.bpg').

Usage:

Click and drop all three components, TPlot, TPlotMenu and TPlotImageList onto a form.

Set the TPlot.Images, TPlotMenu.Images and TPlotMenu.Plot properties.

See the Help file for more detailed information on the use of TPlot.

Help File

There is a help file, but it always seems to be about 0.05 releases late. Please be patient, and study the "Normal" demo project: TPlot is very easy to use.

Download TPlot 1.10.

Mat Ballard
11 October 2000