Turbopower Abbrevia for .NET?

Don Gollahon

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Oct 24, 2006, 10:00:55 AM10/24/06

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Is there such a thing?

Will there be?

Thanks.

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Don Gollahon
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Tom Corey

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Oct 24, 2006, 11:23:01 AM10/24/06

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Don Gollahon wrote:

> Is there such a thing?
> Will there be?

I'd bet against it. The TurboPower products have pretty much languished
as open source. It seems unlinkely that anyone is going to make the
effort to port them to .NET.

Larry Maturo

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Oct 24, 2006, 12:20:56 PM10/24/06

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One of the problems with them is that you can't modify the help
files, so even if someone where to update them, you would never
know it. Strange that they didn't provide source to the help files
when they open sourced the tools.

-- Larry Maturo

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Tom Corey

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Oct 24, 2006, 1:29:30 PM10/24/06

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Larry Maturo wrote:

> One of the problems with them is that you can't modify the help
> files, so even if someone where to update them, you would never
> know it. Strange that they didn't provide source to the help files
> when they open sourced the tools.

That is odd. But the whole situation was odd, and a couple of the
things that they said would happen never did.

Is it possible to reverse engineer help files? I know it's child's play
to copy and paste the contents, but relinking it all together would be
a major pain.

Uffe Kousgaard

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Oct 24, 2006, 1:54:25 PM10/24/06

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" Tom Corey" <omtay....@otmailhay.omcay> wrote in message

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> Is it possible to reverse engineer help files?

Help & Manual can do it. Besides the help file is quite small, so copy and
paste wouldn't be a major task.

Regards
Uffe

BradPhipps

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Oct 25, 2006, 1:56:33 PM10/25/06

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I had a few win32 projects that easily converted to delphi.net using
vcl.net. If you use generic vcl components, there's not much to change
to run under vcl.net.
I use abbrevia myself often, so I tried opening the source packages,
and hacking at them myself to compile them under delphi.Net with
vcl.net... with no luck at all.
Abbrevia uses alot of packed records, pointers, and inline assembly.
Delphi win32 happily takes al of that, but vcl.net does not. The
record types could be tweaked, the pointers could be reworked, but I
dont think assembly is possible at all. After hours of trying, I just
wasnt skilled enough to get it working.

I gave up on abbrevia, and went looking for open source dot.net zip
handlers.

I like SharpDevelop's SharpZipLib. Its entirely in managed c#, but the
dll assembly works just fine in delphi.net. Its relatively small and
fast. Theres no drag and drop components, but its easy enough to work
with in code directly.
http://www.icsharpcode.net/OpenSource/SharpZipLib/
http://wiki.sharpdevelop.net/default.aspx/SharpZipLib.FrequentlyAskedQuestions
The Mono project for linux uses it, and they even have a precompiled
binary for win32.
http://www.mono-project.com/Downloads