"Andreas Brodbeck" <
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> Are there any additional visual component suites for Dolphin? Compared to
> other visual IDEs (say, Borlands Delphi) there is a little lack of visual
> components in Dolphin. Are there any third-party products or anything
> else?
Dolphin can support ActiveX components, so most visual ActiveX components
available should work in Dolphin. You can take a look at URLPresenter to
see how IE is hosted in Dolphin. This site,
http://www.active-x.com/ ,
seems to have a bunch. I have not tried any of them. Adding ActiveX
components may bring additional dependences and can complicate deployment.
You may want to consider using InnoSetup (
http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php ) to create a setup program, it is free
and open source.
Just be careful. Some developers get overly fixated with having a spiffy
looking UI, and then the ease of use and functionality suffers. One of the
benefits of a standard GUI was supposed to be consistency. People could
learn how to use some basic GUI controls and then apply that knowledge to
multiple applications. I think the software industry seems to be getting
away from that.
Chris
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