The first shareware made with Lazarus?
lazarus / 8-Other

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Bad Sector · 2005-11-15 15:48

I've made a little program that allows people to create web pages in
minutes by only providing the content and letting the program create
the style (HTML, images, etc) using a set of predefined themes. The
program is Slashstone PageBuilder and is shareware, in the true manner
that you get the full functionality and if you like it and use it, you
register for it - no demo, no time limiting, everything is there :-).

I'm not sure, but i think that's the first shareware program made with
lazarus.

To show my appreciation, i've added a link to the Lazarus page from
the program's LInks subpage and added the "Produced with Lazarus"
image in the about box:

(http://www.slashstone.com/gimme/shot.jpg)

The product's page is http://www.slashstone.com/more/pagebuilder/

Also i've made a unit for storing tree-like structures in a textual
form (it's like XML, but less readable). Slashstone PageBuilder uses
this unit for almost everything. The unit's source code will be
released soon under the terms of the MIT license.

Lastly i'm thinking to write a simple HTML rendering component...
currently the help file for the program is outside of it... i need
somehow to put it inside. I could use MSHTML ActiveX control but a) i
don't know how to do that in Lazarus :-P and b) i plan to port it in
Linux and MacOS X. I mostly work in Linux anyway, so this would be
nice.

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felipemdc · 2005-11-16 09:52

Maybe you can add it here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Projects_using_Lazarus

=)

About help files, you can use the Windows API to open a Windows Help
File. You can use a IFDEF and use something else on Linux. If you
don't know how to use a IFDEF try reading this:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Hardware_Access

You can also use another format for the help file and simple use the
LCL or Windows API to open the document and choose a good renderer.
This might help http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/Executing
_External_Programs. There is a Win API function to open documents, but
I don't remember the name...

For creating help files I use http://www.helpandmanual.com/hmpage.htm.
It is expensive, but very professional. You can import from many
formats, work with a single source and then export for html help,
winhelp, printing, etc.

ActiveX controls are *very* anti-crossplatform, and thus not supported
at the moment.

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Marc · 2005-11-16 10:28

Can you write a news item on it ?