Description

Utilities - Lightweight alternative to Jedi library. The library is split into 7 sub-libraries: Core, VisualLog, Common, Internet, Graphics, Proteus, Visual controls.

This repository contains the CoreLib and LogLib. More libraries to be added soon. Your code could use directly the bottom library (Core) or higher libraries in the hierarchy, depending on your requirements.

Files in CoreLib:

ccCore.pas

Over 200 functions for:

String manipulation (string conversions, sub-string detection, word manipulation, cut, copy, split, wrap, etc)

Programmer's helper

Form manipulation

Advanced/easy message boxes

DateTime utilities

etc etc etc etc etc etc etc

ccIO.pas

Super useful functions for file/folder/disk manipulation:

Copy files

File/Folder Exists

Get special Windows folders (My Documents, etc)

Prompt user to select a file/folder

List specified files (.jpg for ex) in a folder and all its sub-folders

Increment the numbers in a filename (good for incremental backups)

Append strings to file name

Read text from files to a string variable

Compare files

Merge files

Sort lines in a file

Drive manipulation (IsDiskInDrive, etc)

etc

ccAppData.pas

Application-wide functions:

Get application's appdata folder (the folder where you save temporary, app-related and ini files)

Get application's command line parameters

Detect if the application is running for the firs this in a computer

Application self-restart

Application self-delete

etc

ccStreamBuff.pas

Extends TBufferedFileStream.

This class adds new functionality that does not exist in Delphi's original stream classes:

Read/WriteBoolean

Read/WriteString (Ansi/Unicode)

Read/WriteInteger

Read/WriteCardinal

Read/WriteDate

Read/Write mac files (inverted byte endianness)

etc

It may be used as a drop-in replacement for TFileStream.

ccStreamFile.pas

Expansion class for Delphi classical TFileStream.

Allows you to directly read/write bytes, cardinals, words, integers, strings to a (binary) files.

Now replaced by ccStreamBuff.

ccBinary.pas

String to hex, hex to string conversions (and many others)

Binary numbers (endianness) swapping

Data serialization

Bit manipulation (set bit, etc)

Reverse bits

Endianess

etc

ccWinVersion.pas

This library expands the TOSVersion.

Use it to get Windows version.

Example of functions:

IsWindowsXP

IsWindowsXPUp

IsWindowsVista

IsWindowsVistaUp

IsWindows7

IsWindows7Up

IsWindows8

IsWindows8Up

IsWindows10

etc

ccINIFile

Features:

Extends the capabilities of TIniFile

Functions for easily accessing application's default INI file.

Setup:

Before using it you must set the ccAppData.AppName global var.

The class will use that name to automatically determine the INI file name/path which is %AppData%AppName.Ini.

Example: If the AppName is set to "DelphiLightSaber" the ini file will be "c:UsersUserNameAppDataRoamingDelphiLightSaberDelphiLightSaber.ini"

And... the cherry on the top of the cake was left at the end!

Resume application's GUI state via ccINIFileVCL.pas

Do you have applications with forms with lots of controls (like checkboxes/radiobuttons) and you want to save its status to disk on shutdown and resume exaclty from where you left on application startup with just one function call?

Use SaveForm/LoadForm.

Example:

Call SaveForm(MySettingsForm) in TMySettingsForm.OnDestroy

Call LoadForm(MySettingsForm) after the creation of TMySettingsForm

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