Recently someone asked me what splitter component I had used in my (very secret) resource editor. The splitter is a very simple descendant of the standard VCL TSplitter. The only difference from the standard one is that my custom splitter sports a grab bar, bumps, knobs or whatever they are called.

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Version 5.2 of the Drag and Drop Component Suite has been released.

Enjoy!

Version 5.1 of the Drag and Drop Component Suite has been released.

This is primarily a bug fix release. Specifics in the changelog.

Enjoy!

I’m pleased to finally announce the release of version 5 of the Drag and Drop Component Suite.

The core changes in this version includes:

Note: Version 5 has been released. This post is obsolete.

This page contains the most recent development snapshot of version 5 of the Drag and Drop Component Suite. Updated 2009-02-08.

If no major problems are found with this release it will probably be the last snapshot before final release.

The focus for version 5.0 is Unicode support. The plan is to be completely Unicode capable and compatible with Delphi 2009 and older versions of Delphi.

The core changes from version 4.2 includes:

• Delphi 2009 (Unicode) compatibility.
• PIDLs are no longer stored in strings and string lists.
• The Netscape data formats has been deprecated.
• Classes that deal with strings have been renamed to indicate if they deal with ansi or unicode data.
• The Shell Context Menu component has been rewritten.
• Lots of minor bug fixes.

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As Jan Goyvaerts just pointed out, there’s potentially a slight problem with the license I have used for my source code.

First of all let me put any doubts to rest; If you distribute your software in compiled form, and have used any of my software libraries, you are not required, by me, to publish any source code.

Before I address the specific issue, let me explain why I have even bothered to put a license on the stuff I release.

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A memory overwrite bug has been identified in the TDropFileSource and TDropFileTarget components of the Drag and Drop Component Suite. The bug only manifests itself when support for Unicode filenames is enabled - even if Unicode filenames aren’t used explicitly. Unicode filenames are enabled with Delphi 2006 and later. (more…)

In this the second, and concluding, part of our experiments with Alpha Blended forms in Delphi, I will modify the demo application to use a compressed alpha transparent PNG image instead of a BMP. I will also move the bitmap to a resource file, demonstrate run-time premultiplication and enhance the splash screen with a few visual gimmicks.
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I have released the Drag and Drop Component Suite version 4.2 and updated the development snapshot to version 5.0.

Enjoy!

This page contains the most recent development snapshot of the next version of the Drag and Drop Component Suite.

While this release hasn’t been tested on all supported versions of Delphi, there are no known bugs and I believe it to be very stable.

The focus for this next version, that’ll be 5.0, is Unicode support. The plan is to be completely Unicode capable and compatible with Delphi 2009.

The core changes from version 4.2 includes:

• Delphi 2009 (Unicode) compatibility.
  I have begun preparing the library for Delphi 2009.
• PIDLs are no longer stored in strings and string lists.
• The Netscape data formats has been deprecated.

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