Troels Jakobsen

Code Samples > Samples > OS

Description

A documented demo on how to make your own applets for the Windows Control Panel.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 154kB

Platforms: D2, D3, D4

Components > System > Tray Icons

Description

CoolTrayIcon is a tray icon component with many properties to customize the icon's behaviour and appearance. Features include:

• Various mouse and click events
• Popup menu support
• Methods for hiding and showing the main form
• Can move to tray when user minimizes the form
• Icon animation
• Interactive balloon hints
• Can convert bitmaps to icons
• Design preview for easy experimentation
• The component can be used in a service
• Restores tray icon on Explorer crash.

Includes a descended tray icon component, TextTrayIcon, which allows you to show a tray icon with a text of your choice.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 342kB

Platforms: CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D2, D2005, D2006, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Files and Drives > Disk Tools

Description

A nice utility for the Win95/98/NT traybar. Shows free disk space on your drives, when you move the mouse over the tray icon. You can also select the drives from the popup menu. The TCoolTray Icon component is included.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 241kB

Platforms: NT4, W2K3, W95, W98, XP,

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Internet > Utilities

Description

Two utilities to convert your Netscape bookmarks to Internet Explorer favorites and vice versa. Useful if you want to change Internet browser, or if you want to extract your IE favorites to a file.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 362kB

Platforms: NT4, W95, W98,

Components > System > Keys and Keyboard

Description

HotKeyManager is a component that allows you to add system-wide hotkeys to your application. A system-wide hotkey (a key combination like Ctrl+Alt+X) allows you to invoke a custom action from anywhere. Your application doesn't have to be in the foreground or even visible to receive the hotkey events.

Informations

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

Platforms: CB4, CB5, CB6, D2005, D2006, D4, D5, D6, D7

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Games > Other

Description

A sandpile simulator (it's a kind of Conway's Game of Life, really). Fun to watch. Comes with extensive documentation on complex adaptive systems, which is what the sandpile model is.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 265kB

Platforms: NT4, W95,

Components > System > Shell

Description

ShellLinker is a unit that allows you to easily create, read, and execute shell links (shortcuts). It can handle links to files, folders, or virtual objects like printers or system folders.

You can set/get all properties of a link, such as parameters, icon, hotkey, and show state.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 232kB

Platforms: CB4, CB5, D3, D4, D5, D6

Components > Date and Time > Timers

Description

SimpleTimer is a timer class. It is more lightweight than a TTimer component, as it doesn't require a handle, and since it's derived from TObject there's less overhead. This makes it ideal for developers who need a timer in their own components or applications, but want to keep the resource usage minimal.

Informations

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

Platforms: CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D2, D2005, D2006, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Science > Solvers, Expressions

Description

The classic travelling salesman problem, solved via a genetic algorithm (a heuristic algorithm related to artificial life).

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 201kB

Platforms: NT4, W2K, W95, W98,

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Files and Drives > Utilities

Description

An add-in to the Windows context menu. Upon installation, when you right-click one or more files containg a version number an additional menu item is shown containing the version number(s) for quick reference. Can be handy if you need to compare files.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 97kB

Platforms: ME, NT4, W2K, W95, W98, XP,

Applications in Delphi and BCB > Desktop > Wallpapers

Description

A silly little program that randomly changes your desktop wallpaper. Comes in a windowed and a non-windowed version.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 233kB

Platforms: ME, W95, W98,