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Tips System 2.02 SW
For D2/D3/D4/D5/CB/CB3/CB4/CB5
Reviewed by J M Sandbrook

Tips System 2.02 is from Artem A. Berman at CoolDev.com and is an advanced tips system with many features that can really give your Delphi applications a real professional touch, in other words its for the "Tip Of The Day" dialog box in your applications. Artem has once again come up with a component that is different from the rest.

Tips can be added, deleted, edited and hidden by your user.
Included is a very good Tips editor, and you can create events for each button, see a design time preview by double-clicking on the TTips component, you can use HTML scripting, multi languages support etc.

The Tips System package requires Html Tools (http://www.cooldev.com) to be installed on your computer and its license includes the Html Tools. i.e. by registering Tips System you register two packages Tips System and Html Tools.
When registering Tips System you obtain the licensed copy of Html Tools package as well.
To learn more about HTML Tools go to the bottom of this web page.

I put a TTips component on a Form and then double-clicked on it and immediately I could see why this Tips system is different than any others I had previously seen.
The general layout of the tips dialog is the same, but the good folk at CoolDev.com have come up with some innovative features that programmers will welcome to their collection of components.

The first thing I noticed was the extra buttons down the right side of the tips dialog box, they are listed as follows:
 

The first two buttons are obvious, the Edit button is for you to edit your tips. This is done in a different manner than what is normal and the main reason is that we use HTML to write the tips.

Here is an example:

<FONT COLOR="clPurple"><B>Hello</B></FONT> and <FONT COLOR="clPurple"><B>Welcome</B></FONT> to the <I>Tips system !</I>  Now with <a href>links</a> huh.

This may look a bit confusing but it is easy to make changes once you get the idea.

Which looks like this:

Hello and Welcome to the Tips system ! Now with links huh.

Notice the Internet link!

Here is a screen shot of Tips system in action:

I thought having links (URL Internet Links) in a Tips Dialog is a great idea, not only can you offer a tip you can also include a link to go to an Internet web site for more information about your tip.

All in all we here at the DPSC think Tips Systems is good for developers who want a Tip Of The day dialog box that gives them more creativity.

To learn more about  go to cooldev.com

You can download a already compiled demonstration projects here - Download.

You can download a trial version of Tips System from these sites.

Site 1 (Germany)
Site 2 (Russia)
Site 3 (Ukraine)

Html Tools

Html Tools is a package designed to deal with HTML code.

Html Tools includes a component that converts a limited number of HTML tags and then displays them in HTML format/code in a RichEdit control, I tried this with the standard RichEdit that comes with Delphi it looks great.

Here is an example of how it looks in Delphi's RichEdit:

Html Tools contains an HTML parser that allows your projects to parse HTML code and various HTML tags & Native Delphi code.

You can download a compiled demonstration of  HTML Tools from here - Download.

You can download a trial version of  HTML Tools from these sites:

Site 1 (Germany)
Site 2 (Russia)
Site 3 (Ukraine)

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