AEFramework

AEFramework is a set of helper units / components which I use for most of my projects. Since they might be of interest of others it is now hosted on GitHub. Feel free to use, modify under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

AE.Application

These classes can be used to quickly create a service / console application.

AE.Comp

Fixes and enhancements for existing VCL controls. These controls fully support Delphi VCL styles.

AE.Comp.ComboBox.pas

Contains TAEComboBox, which allows case-insensitive item selection while typing if Style is csDropDown.

AE.Comp.DBGrid.pas

Contains TAEDBGrid with automatic column width detection, proper mouse wheel and scrollbar scrolling, scrollbar positioning, alternate row backgrounds and some painting improvements.

AE.Comp.HeaderMenuItem.pas

TAEHeaderMenuItem is always disabled, acts as a separator in Popup / main menus. Born because of a topic on DelphiPraxis.

AE.Comp.KeepMeAwake.pas

TAEKeepMeAwake can be used to prevent a computers console or RDP session to go idle.

AE.Comp.MenuTreeParser.pas

TAEMenuTreeParser is a helper component to parse menu trees. Based on the current location it can list subfolders and menu items separately.

AE.Comp.PageControl.pas

TAEPageControl adds drag-and-drop sheet reordering and close buttons on tabs.

AE.Comp.TagEditor.pas

TAETagEditor is an extremely barebone tag editor component. More information on DelphiPraxis.

AE.Comp.ThreadedTimer.pas

TAEThreadedTimer is a modernized, drop-in replacement of Delphi's TTimer class based on a StackExchange StackExchange. More information is on DelphiPraxis.

AE.IDE

TAEDelphiVersions and TVSVersions detect local Delphi and Visual Studio installations and their individual running instances. Via DDE a file can be opened in the IDE of a specific instance. You can read the struggle of creation on DelphiPraxis.

AE.Misc

Miscellaneous unit to make life easier.

AE.DDEManager.pas

As Delphi's TDDEClientConv is severely out-of-date and is not fully functional on newer releases, TAEDDEManager can take care of DDE server discovery and command execution.

AE.DLL.Loader.pas, AE.DLL.AutoLoader.pas

Helper classes to make interacting with DLL files less painful. TAEDLLLoader requires the descendant class to loading manually while TAEDLLAutoLoader discovers and loads all exported methods.

AE.Helper.TBytes.pas

Helper class to compare, fully clear and deallocate, via ZLib (de)compress, stringify and manipulate Delphi TBytes arrays.

AE.Misc.FileUtils.pas

Extracts specific version information from a given executable, like version number, product name, etc.

AE.Misc.Random.pas

TAERandom is a pure pascal pseudorandom generator which can have multiple individual instances with different seeds. Currently two useable version exists, TAEDelphiRandom and TAEXORShift.

AE.Misc.UnixTimestamp.pas

Before I realized Delphi now natively supports UTC converted Unix timestamps I used this unit to do those conversions. Now it only calls the Delphi methods.

MNB.ExchangeRate.SoapService.pas and AE.MNB.ExchangeRates.pas

Access the webservice of Hungarian National Bank, get exchange rates and convert between currency values. The first file is the WSDL import of the webservice of Hungarian National Bank, the second one is an installable component which makes it easy to convert between the supported currencies.

AE.Updater

TAEUpdater is a free to use application autoupdater. More information on DelphiPraxis.

AE.VirtualKeyboard.*.pas

A wrapper class to allow foreground or background threads to send key inputs to the active application, like actual keys were pressed on a keyboard. TAEVirtualKeyboard uses the actual keyboard layout and sends the text as unicode, while TAEVirtualEnUsKeyboard and TAEVirtualHuHuKeyboard translates special characters and sends the input as scan codes instead. These can be useful to type text to a RDP window, if the host system has no keyboard layout matching the clients.