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Description

This guide intends to help you getting your Windows applications ready for ultra-high resolution ("4K") displays. It will explain the challenge and tell you how to master it.

It covers all topics from Delphi's UI scaling on systems with "large fonts" to per-monitor DPI-awareness on Windows 8.1:

• Dots per Inch explained
• Windows and DPI, Delphi and DPI
• Testing high resolutions
• DPI virtualization in Windows
• Windows 8.1 multi-montor DPI scaling
• Declaring DPI-awareness in Delphi
• Flipping DPI at runtime on Windows 8.1.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 9 877kB

Platforms: DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE5, DXE6, DXE7, DXE8

Documents > Other > Articles

Description

This comprehensive tutorial covers all aspects of integrating a help file into a Delphi application.

Learn, how to:

• Display the table of contents, the index and find tab from your application
• Work with help commands and macros
• Brush up your application with context sensitive help
• Implement What's This? popup help
• Accomplish contextual help with keywords (like the Delphi code editor)
• Component help files seamlessly integrated into Delphis online help
• And much more...

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 541kB

Platforms: CB5, CB6, D2005, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

DB-Aware Components > Visual > Images

Description

TDBImageAspect is a replace for TDBImage. It has the same properties and Events. The difference is, that the image will be displayed with its correct aspect ratio, when 'TDBImageAspect.Stretch := true' (it is by default). When 'Stretch := false', it behaves like a normal DBImage. NOTE: The Image is only stretched until its original size, not beyond. Works with QuickReport 1.x as well.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 4kB

Platforms: D2, D3

Code Samples > Samples > Multimedia And Graphics

Description

Example how create animated cursor in Windows NT style.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 5kB

Platforms: D2, D3

Components > Tools > Help Tools

Description

This component suite covers every help related task in a Delphi application and completes the help functions supplied by Delphi. 4 powerful components manage context sensitive help, the instant implementation of HTML HELP and training card help:

• TWhatsThis - automates right-click context sensitive "What's this?"-help and implements a fully automated context sensitive help mode similar to MS Word. Drop a TWhatsThis component on your main form and instantly enable context help menus for all controls without a single code line. What's more, it enables right-click help for menu items and gives you full control over the F1 key.
• THelpRouter - builds a bridge to HTML HELP without extra coding. It manages the translation of help calls and context sensitive help. This component is the successor of the former THTMLHelpRouter. New functions: support for context sensitive HTML HELP popups and mixed-mode help (HTML HELP plus Winhelp popup windows).
• THelpContextMap - stores help context numbers and their associated topic IDs in a compressed form with ultra-fast searching. It reads help context numbers directly from a help project file (Winhelp and HTML HELP) and is designed to work with TWhatsThis.
• TTrainingCard - simplifies the implementation of Winhelp training cards. Training card help is a kind of wizard in HLP format that interacts with your application.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 1 200kB

Platforms: D2005, D2006, D2007, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Developer Tools > Help > General

Description

Help & Manual is a documentation tool and content management system for both single and multi-author editing.

While it is as easy to use like a normal word processor, Help & Manual gives you the full power of a true WYSIWYG XML editor.

All the tools you need are at your fingertips in a single intuitive environment, and the program handles all the complex, technical aspects of the process for you. Instead of wasting countless hours "programming" your help you can focus all your energy on actually writing your documentation, so that all your working time is productive time.

All the output formats supported by Help & Manual are generated from the same project. This means you only have to edit your help and documentation once. Forget about the nightmare of "converting" your documentation every time you change anything.

New in version 7:

• Responsive Webhelp, responsive images, web videos and SVG
• Multiple TOCs and built-in version control
• Team Foundation Server support
• New publishing formats: Word (DOCX), ePUB 3.0, Amazon Kindle, EWriter eBooks
• PDF output: support for PDF/A, better font embedding, improved table rendering, chapter feature images
• Lots of detail changes to the user interface, improving usability.

Informations

• Status: Evaluation (time-limit)
• Source: None
• price: $598
• Size: 139 319kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, CB64, CBXE, CBXE2, CBXE3, CBXE4, CBXE5, CBXE6, CBXE7, CBXE8, D1, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE5, DXE6, DXE64, DXE7, DXE8, FM3

Components > Tools > Help Tools

Description

The programming interface of Help & Manual includes a Delphi wizard that integrates seamlessly into the IDE. It automates creation of context sensitive help for an entire form and - in addition to the first version released last week - we added a property editor for the HelpContext property. This property editor simplifies the creation of single topics. Just select control, choose the HelpContext property in the Object Inspector and click the [...] button to create a help topic for it.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 492kB

Platforms: D5, D6

Developer Tools > Help > Other

Description

HM2Go is a free local webserver that is only 1.7 mb in size and does not require installation. It is designed to serve a Webhelp system locally or from CD/DVD. You can use and redistribute HM2Go royalty-free.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 987kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, CB64, CBXE, CBXE2, CBXE3, CBXE4, CBXE5, CBXE6, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE5, DXE6, DXE64

Developer Tools > Help > Other

Description

HHReg is a utility to register HTML Help (.chm) files on an individual Windows computer to make them available for viewing. Registration for HTML Help files is required since Microsoft issued a security patch for Microsoft Internet Explorer, disabling in general all HTML Help files that are viewed from a network drive.

HHReg fixes this new limitation by explicitly registering the help file in the Windows registry.

Available in English and German.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 373kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, CBXE, CBXE2, CBXE3, CBXE4, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4

Code Samples > Samples > Components

Description

"There are a few "TDBTreeViews" on the internet now. Most of them are shareware and - this is the reason why I wrote this - didn't work like I had expected. Some are very powerful but need a complex data structure to work. Of course, a real DBTreeView is more comfortable. This Example shows you how to make a simple TreeView behave like a DBTreeView."

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 4kB

Platforms: D2, D3

Components > Tools > Spell Checkers

Description

This is a new spell checker based on the NHunspell project from Thomas Maierhofer (also open source). It is the first Delphi implementation to directly support the latest OpenOffice 3 dictionaries and uses the Hunspell spell checking engine, which is being used in OpenOffice, Firefox and many other software programs.

Features:

• Can read and open OpenOffice 3 dictionaries as well as the older OpenOffice 2 format
• Implements spell checking and hyphenation
• Full Unicode support, no codepage conversions.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 11 136kB

Platforms: D2007, D2009, D2010, DXE2

Developer Tools > Developer Tools > Other

Description

What TNT does is easy to explain: it creates screen shots that look better than the original screen.

TNT has all the cool stuff you have been missing in your screen shots. Shadows, transparency, shapes and cursors. It enhances screen shots and applies a professional, photorealistic touch. And despite it's many features, it is so easy to use that you can't do wrong.

TNT captures literally everything:

• Whether you take a picture of your desktop, an application window or a particular group of controls, TNT handles it with ease.
• 3 different screen capture modes cover everything from application interfaces to popup menus.
• If you want the image to have a shadow, just tick the shadow option before you make the screen shot. Cursor included? Just another option.
• What makes TNT different is the quality of the built-in image filters and add-ons. Look at the detail on the left - it's the gradient soft shadow that creates the photorealistic effect.
• TNT automatically detects window shapes such as the rounded corners on Windows XP.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 7 350kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, CB64, CBXE, CBXE2, CBXE3, CBXE4, D1, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE64

Components > Files and Drives > BackUp

Description

Backup and restore component, supports multiple disks, data comporession, incremental or full backup, partial or full restore, many more. Now with improved compression routine and new properties. New methods implemented to create self extracting exe-files.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 255kB

Platforms: D3, D4

Components > Grids > String Grids

Description

Enchanced string grid with column formatting including column data type (string, number, date), column colors, fonts, combo boxes and ellipsis buttons. This version adds a new property: background image. Also contains TDBDataGrid.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 113kB

Platforms: D3, D4

DB-Aware Components > Visual > Grids

Description

Data-aware version of TDataGrid (included). Enchanced string grid with column formatting including column data type (string, number, date), column colors, fonts, combo boxes and ellipsis buttons. This version adds a new property: background image.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 113kB

Platforms: D3, D4

Components > Edits, Memos > RichEdits

Description

TRTFSnapShot is an invisible component that lets you take an image snapshot from a TRichedit. It is simple and cool:

• Drop a TRTFSnapShot on a form and assign a TRichedit to it.
• During run-time, you call the CreateSnapShot method to take a screen shot of the whole Richtext or part of it.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 158kB

Platforms: D3, D4, D5

Components > Graphics > Capture

Description

Enable your application to make great screen shots effortlessly.

TScreenCapture implements an interface to the capture DLL of screen capture tool T.N.T Screen Capture. The component includes full source code as well as a compiled demo application.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• price: $49
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 504kB

Platforms: D3, D4, D5, D6

Documents > Other > Articles

Description

This article complements our Delphi 4K guide and focus on application documentation in HTML Help (.chm) format. Once your application is DPI-aware, the Microsoft HTML Help viewer invoked via the HTML Help API, will be too.

What to take care of, what to avoid, and how to do it right: that's what you learn in this article.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 11 497kB

Platforms: DXE6, DXE7, DXE8