Of course, the main developer's tool is the programming environment. I prefer to use Delphi, and among all the other versions, Delphi 5 and Delphi 6 are the optimal ones. Someone prefers licensed free products such as Free Pascal and Lazarus. But this chapter will focus on additional tools that can be useful for all sorts of utilitarian work, even those that, it would seem, have nothing to do with programming itself. For example, to publish your work on the World Wide Web.

 

Part of the described toolkit exists in nature by itself, but I will allow myself to mention such means, because, to some extent, this is also an experience, and it can and should be transmitted and disseminated. Other tools have been developed using the KOL library by various authors and are often indispensable as well. Most of these tools can be found in the Tools section of the main KOL WEB site.

 

•DClear - utility for cleaning Delphi project folders.

•DfmUn2An- converts dfm file resource (s) from Unicode to Ansi, allowing you to port applications developed in new versions of Delphi (6, 7) to an older format (4, 5). Author: Bartov Adeksandr.

•DiffLines - a program for line-by-line comparison of very large files (up to 4 gigabytes).

•MCKAppExpert - creates an MCK application template. Author: Thaddy de Koning.

•MCKAppExpert200 - similar to the previous one, but compatible with Delphi2009-2010.

•xHelpGen - help generator based on source code.