Welcome to my home page!

I programming in Pascal while at University. When Visual Basic 2 was launched I play around with Windows development.  But for me real programming started when Delphi was launched in 1995 - it's fantastic.  It has the power and speed of C++ with the usability of Pascal.

Over the years I've written well over a dozen large applications with Delphi as well as numerous components.  I've included one of my components below that you may find useful.

TRegisterExtension
I've included a small component for download. It adds a little polish to your programs by automatically associating your application with a file extension. This means that the application icon will show up in File Manager next to files of this type. When you double click on the file it will automatically start your application and you can load the file - extremely cool!

It is free for none commercial use - please contact me if you would like to use it in a commercial application.


Filename Date Size Description
RegisterExtension.zip 14-Jan-2000 2 kb Source code for TRegisterExtenesion


Delphi UPX
UPX is a fantastic little EXE compression utility that manages to compress most executables down to just 30% of their original size!  You can find out more about UPX at http://upx.tsx.org.  The only problem that I found was that it still uses a command line interface.  So I've written this small Delphi application to give UPX a (simple) graphical user interface.  DelphiUPX is provided "as is" and although I know of no bugs I will give no warrants at all - use it at your own risk!

Note: You will still need to download UPX from the UPX site !


Filename Date Size Description
DelphiUPX_Setup.exe 30-May-2000 496 kb DelphiUPX with setup program
DelphiUPX.exe 30-May-2000 196 kb DelphiUPX (EXE only)


Delphi Links & Resources
The following sites are the best I have found for Delphi info

Link Description
Borland The home of Delphi
LMD Tools The best suite of components for Delphi
Turbopower Good quality components
Torry's Delphi Page The best general site
Inner-Smile The best private Delphi site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Copyright Steve Maughan 2001 - 2006