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Configurable on-screen keyboard for touchscreen applications with support for QWERTY, AZERTY, DVORAK, NUMERIC, CELLPHONE keyboard layouts as well as fully customizable keyboard layouts. Includes a keyboard that can be dropped on a form as well as a popup touchscreen keyboard that can optionally automatically follow focus.

• Configurable keys, configurable size
• Automatic highlighting of Shift / Alt-Gr key values
• Automatic display of shift state
• Customizable background color or image for normal & down state
• Popup version that can automatically follow focus control
• Method to load & save keyboard layouts
• Keys can have text or images
• Different keys can have different colors
• Sub keys when pressing a key
• Autocompletion list that popups up when typing

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ZylGSM is a Delphi & C++Builder component that communicates with a GSM modem or phone with integrated modem (almost all new generation mobile phones).

Main features:

• send SMS in text mode
• send SMS in PDU mode
• delete SMS
• dial in voice mode
• dial in data mode
• answer incoming call
• hang up current conversation
• recognize calls and identify caller number
• new SMS message alert
• read PDU and text SMS
• detect GSM modem
• execute custom AT commands

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It is a combined component (DataSet, Provider, ClientDataSet and UpdateSQL). If you are used to use ClientDataset, you may want to specify sql statement for each Modify, Delete and Insert sql. This is provided by TMsDataAdapter. It also allows you to change your connection easily from ADO to DBX or IBX or BDE. You can change your connection bridge with minimal source change. Don’t forget that it works based on MIDAS.

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Vis PDF Lib is a Delphi and C++ Builder component for creating PDF documents. VisPDF does not use any DLL or other software to create PDF files. The VisPDF distribution includes the complete help system and many demo programs: PDF console application samples, PDF GUI application samples, server PDF application sample etc.

VisPDF Lib allows you to load existing PDF files and edit them in the following manner:

• Print text and draw on an existing PDF document using it as a canvas
• Add audio, video and text annotations
• Change the size and resolution of specific pages and the whole document
• Add, delete and copy pages
• Encrypt and sign the document
• Edit the document properties
• and much more…

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Workflow Studio is a Delphi/C++Builder VCL framework for Business Process Management (BPM). With Workflow Studio you can easily add workflow and BPM capabilities to your application,by allowing you or your end-user to create workflow definitions and running them.

Here are some examples of business process that can be automated by using Workflow Studio:

• Order management
• Sales management
• Hiring process
• Help desk tasks
• Sales and marketing tasks
• Project management
• Quality checking
• Warranty management
• Software deployment
• Product requirement and specification
• Expense tracking

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Firebird Maestro is the premier Firebird admin tool for database management, control and development. Key features include:

• Support for all the Firebird versions from 1.0 to 2.5
• Easy database object management
• Database Designer
• Data management: viewing, editing, grouping, sorting and filtering abilities
• Comfortable access to the Firebird security features
• Handy SQL Editor with code folding, syntax highlighting, and multi-threading
• Visual Query Builder
• Data export/import to/from the most popular formats
• Powerful BLOB Viewer/Editor

The application also provides you with a powerful set of tools to manage Firebird users and roles, edit and execute SQL scripts, build visual diagrams for numeric data, compose OLAP cubes, and much more.

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TResourceAllocationChart draws a chart suitable for showing the allocation of shared resources. Those resources could represent shared rooms, cars, in fact anything at all.

Once you have a chart, you can:

• add or delete resources.
• add or delete allocations for each resource.
• change the bar style and colour of any resource, or of any allocation of a resource.
• change the appearance of any particular allocation by changing the pen or brush attributes in the OnAllocationDraw event, or by using the OwnerDraw style.
• drag the chart right or left.
• drag an allocation right or left.
• drag an allocation from one resource to another. This can be useful if, for example, the resource becomes unavailable.
• click and drag the end of an allocation to expand or contract it.

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Powerful component suite for creation Delphi/C++Builder applications with direct access to PostgreSQL databases without BDE and ODBC.

Top reasons to use PostgresDAC 2.x:

• PostgresDAC is a royalty-free product;
• 100% native Delphi code;
• PostgreSQL 7.x-8.x support;
• only 300-400 Kb are added to your .exe file;
• full compatibility with all the existing data-aware controls and report designers;
• full support of the BLOB fields;
• TDBImageEx component for JPEG images support included in the package for free (with sources);
• detailed help system and a lot of various demo applications;
• compatible with Pervasive Postgres;
• and much more.

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With these three components you access an Oracle database directly, skipping the Borland Database Engine only using (32 bits) SQL*Net. This gives you the following advantages:

• No distributing, installing and configuring the BDE
• No BDE overhead or trade offs: your queries will run up to five times faster
• The program executable size will be more than 100K smaller
• The use of variants makes programming easy (null values, runtime type information)
• You can use PL/SQL blocks for server logic in your application
• Easy to use, the components are intelligent.

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Localizing software for different international markets can double and even quadruple sales. This is why almost every software company considers localization a must. Yet, localization is both a complicated and expensive process. Luckily for Delphi, C++Builder, and Kylix developers, there is TsiLang Component Suite – the complete automatic localization solution.

TsiLang Components Suite allows you to build your multilingual applications in two minutes. It makes the process of building multilanguage applications so easy as writing “Hello World.” application. There are no limitations for amount of languages. You can build bilingual or multilingual applications as you decide.

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