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DelphiDabbler.com is home to numerous open source Delphi units and components, a code snippets library, various programming tutorial articles and hints & tips. There are also several open source programs. The programs and source code library are written in Delphi Object Pascal.

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About DelphiDabbler.com

Main Features

Blog

An extension to DelphiDabbler.com where more peripheral programming stuff can be discussed.

There's a summary on this site while the complete blog is on Blogger.com.

Delphi Source Code Library

The source code library contains numerous open source Delphi components, units and IDE extensions. Source code is provided for everything.

Code Snippets Database

The Code Snippets Database provides source code for numerous re-usable Delphi routines.

An offline viewer for the database is also available.

Articles and Delphi Tips

Several programming articles that discuss various programming problems and solutions are published in this section. Many articles have demo programs.

There are also numerous brief Delphi Tips available that have been gleaned across the net.

PasH Pascal Syntax Highlighter

PasH is an open source command line application that generates XHTML files containing syntax highlighted representations of Pascal source code. It can highlight disk files or take source from the clipboard.

A GUI front end for the program is also available.

Awards

Two of my open source programs have won 5 star awards from Shareware Island They are:

HTML Resource Compiler – compiles HTML, GIF etc files as RT_HTML resources.
BDiff / BPatch Utilities – BDiff outputs data describing the differences between two files and BPatch recreates a file using a diff file generated by BDiff..

Make a Donation

Everything on this site is open source and free of charge. However, if you find anything useful and would like to make a contribution towards the cost of running the site, then please do so by using the Donate button that appears opposite and at the top of each page.

Keep Up To Date

There are a few ways to keep up to date with updates to the site and the software: the News pages, on Twitter, RSS feeds, or by subscribing to one or more mailing lists.

News Pages & "What's New" bar

See the News page for details of the latest updates. Relevant updates appear on the right hand side of some pages in the "What's New" bar.

Twitter

You can follow @delphidabbler on Twitter to get news of updates as they happen. The latest tweets can be seen on the Twitter page.

RSS Feeds

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Mailing Lists

You get be sent a summary of updates to the programs, source code, articles and tips by subscribing to the bi-monthly email newsletter. Subscribe by entering your email address below and clicking the Subscribe button.

The are various other newsletters available. See the Mailing List Sign Up page for details.

Navigate the site using the menus on the left and bottom of each page. If you get lost, use the Site Map or the Google-powered Search Page that are accessed from the Navigate section. Links to the Site Map and Search Page also appear in the "quick links" bar at the top of every page.

Compatibility

The site has been tested with numerous browsers and works well with most. There are major problems with Netscape 4.7 and IE 5 and support for these browsers has now been dropped.