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You can use HTMLEdit to quickly add HTML editing to your application with little knowledge of HTML on your part and no knowledge of HTML on the part of your application’s users.

The component is being used in content management applications, in website maintenance tools and in e-mail clients. It is designed around the needs of developers of content management applications that deal with textual content and images, it is however not intended as a replacement for applications such as DreamWeaver for layouting entire websites.

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The HTML component set consists of the ThtmlViewer , TFrameViewer, and TFrameBrowser components. All three are HTML document display components:

• ThtmlViewer: The basic component. ThtmlViewer displays single (non-frame) documents. It forms the basis for the other two components.
• TFrameViewer: Displays both Frame and single HTML documents. TFrameViewer  is oriented more for local disk file use.
• FrameBrowser: Also displays Frame and single HTML documents. However, TFrameBrower is oriented toward Internet style protocols and URL usage. Additional code and/or components are generally required to use TFrameBrowser.

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ExtPascal is an Object Pascal (Delphi, FreePascal/Lazarus) wrapper/binding for Ext JS, a comprehensive GUI Ajax framework. ExtPascal will wrap Draw2d and CodePress libraries too and future releases. It uses ideas from others Ext JS wrappers: ExtSharp and ExtPHP.

Features

• High performance with native code for Server side programming, no PHP required.
• Uses FastCGI or CGI for Web Server communication.
• Compatible with any Web Server supporting CGI or FastCGI protocols.
• Statefull, keep-alive and multithread server applications.
• Parser Ext JS HTML documentation to Object Pascal code.
• Self-translate Object Pascal code to JavaScript code during execution.
• Coding in full Object Pascal, minimal use of (X)HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• AJAX programming using Object Pascal.
• Full wrapper to all Ext JS classes, singletons and widgets.
• Transparent support for all main web browsers: IE 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Safari 2+ and Opera 9+ on any client side platform!
• Server side multi-platform support through FreePascal compiler. Tested on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
• Produce very tiny executables.

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As developers we’re always doing the same tasks over again, and one task is often connecting to a desktop email application. So what happens when you want to change your application to support a new email client, or want to add new functionality?

Using the Mailbox SDK you can easily connect to any email client using just one protocol, right from your desktop application. Features Mailbox SDK allows you to build a wide variety of applications, and the SDK includes several examples written in C++, C# and Borland Delphi.

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This component uses the IE’s HTTP / HTTPS mechanism (WinInet) to connect to a web server and perform GET or POST operations, (either multipart or urlencoded).

It supports content decompression, invalid or expired https certificates, and uses the existing proxy settings for the current connection so the only thing you will need is to set the URL and call the execute method.

It also supports unicode, and can automatically convert from UTF-8, UTF-16 and ANSI encodings.

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XNetDetect is a non-visual Delphi component being able to keep your application informed about any change of the Internet connectivity status. If you want to handle the event when your PC connects/disconnects from the Internet, XNetDetect is for you.

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