BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Where'd the free stuff go?          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Frank Dreyfus Guest Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 8:56 pm    Post subject: Where'd the free stuff go? Hi, I've been away from Delphi for a bit and thought I'd get back into it. I picked up D7 and started working on one of my old projects. Many of the shareware/freeware components wouldn't work in D7 which was no surprise. But when I went looking for updates I found that none of them are available for D6 or D7. Further, many of the old sites I used to frequent for components are gone or seem to be out of date (Delphi pages, Delphi 32, Delphi Super page, Delphi Deli and more). Delphi32 is still alive but I found very little freeware for D6 or D7. So what's happening. Is the Delphi community shrinking? Has interest waned? Or have new sites taken the place of the old ones? Can someone point me to a good repository for freeware components? What happened to RXLib? Is it dead? Thanks for your help, Frank Back to top Rob Kennedy Guest Posted: Sat Jan 24, 2004 11:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Where'd the free stuff go? Frank Dreyfus wrote: Quote: I picked up D7 and started working on one of my old projects. Many of the shareware/freeware components wouldn't work in D7 which was no surprise. You *did* get them in source-code form, didn't you? I won't use components I don't have the source for. Most of the time, the changes necessary to make a component work with a new version of Delphi are trivial, if there are any changes at all. (Delphi 8, as I understand it, is an exception.) Quote: Can someone point me to a good repository for freeware components? Torry's Delphi Pages http://www.torry.ru Delphi Gems http://www.delphi-gems.com Tnt Delphi Unicode Controls http://home.ccci.org/wolbrink/tnt/delphi_unicode_controls.htm Internet Direct (Indy) http://www.indyproject.org JEDI VCL http://sourceforge.net/projects/jvcl/ Quote: What happened to RXLib? Is it dead? http://www.google.com/search?q=rxlib Pay particular attention to the fourth item, TWM's home page. -- Rob Back to top Rick Carter Guest Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 5:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Where'd the free stuff go? Frank Dreyfus <fdreyfus (AT) nyw (DOT) com> wrote Quote: What happened to RXLib? Is it dead? In case it's not clear from the link Rob gave, RxLib is now a part of the JEDI VCL. Unless there's been a recent change I don't know of, Torry's has been notorious for not updating for ages -- it does have a large library, though. I sometimes find myself dowloading the version of a component from Torry's or DSP to see whether it will do what I want, then finding the author's own website to get the most recent version. Besides JVCL, there are about a thousand at least somewhat Delphi-related projects on www.sourceforge.net -- among them, most of the TurboPower components (Orpheus, FlashFiler, etc.) which up until the end of 2002 were some of the best selling commercial components. Another place to check is http://codecentral.borland.com/ If you're looking for a particular component, usually the best place to ask is borland.public.thirdpartytools.general Rick Carter Chair, Paradox/Delphi SIG, Cincinnati PC Users Group Back to top Henry Bartlett Guest Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 10:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Where'd the free stuff go? Hi Frank Quote: But when I went looking for updates I found that none of them are available for D6 or D7. Further, many of the old sites I used to frequent for components are gone or seem to be out of date (Delphi pages, Delphi 32, Delphi Super page, Delphi Deli and more). Delphi32 is still alive but I found very little freeware for D6 or D7. So what's happening. Is the Delphi community shrinking? Has interest waned? Or have new sites taken the place of the old ones? You will find a selection of currently active sites at http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/delflink.htm/#Downloads I keep a close watch on all the sites listed and update the page at the end of the month, Quote: What happened to RXLib? Is it dead? No, just become a Jedi. Check my site for the new link. -- Henry Bartlett HABit utilities ( http://www.hotkey.net.au/~hambar/habit/ ) email: [email]hambar (AT) Spamlock (DOT) microtech.com.au[/email]. Please remove the "Spamlock." from my address when replying. Back to top Frank Dreyfus Guest Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 11:32 pm    Post subject: Re: Where'd the free stuff go? [email]carterrk (AT) despammed (DOT) com[/email] (Rick Carter) wrote in news:ad2aabdb.0401250942.64e835da (AT) posting (DOT) google.com: Quote: In case it's not clear... Thanks Rick, I'll follow up on those leads. 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