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- Orpheus
-
- Native VCL user interface components for Delphi professionals
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- Orpheus is a collection of native VCL (Visual Component Library)
- components that extend the user interface design capabilities of
- Borland Delphi. Don't hassle with using and distributing VBX or DLL
- based controls when you can have optimized VCL components that are
- fully integrated with Delphi, compile directly into your EXE files,
- and include complete source code. You get:
-
- o full validation of string, numeric, and date/time data fields
- o protected, hidden, required, and calculated fields in forms
- o a list box with virtually unlimited capacity
- o array editors for all fundamental data types
- o notebook component with multi-row side and top tabs
- o viewer for text or binary files of any size
- o multi-line text editor with real-time word wrap and 16 MB
- capacity
- o 2D table control that holds editable fields, check boxes, combo
- boxes, and more
- o calendar component with extensive library of date and time
- manipulation routines
- o two-way and four-way spin components
- o meter components for use in installation and monitoring programs,
- and more
-
- Professional Validated Data Entry
- ---------------------------------
- The entry field components in Orpheus let you perform true
- field-by-field validation of user input in Delphi forms. Orpheus
- fields have built-in support for all Pascal data types, including
- strings, integer types, floating point types, and even date, time,
- and currency. The field editors accept easy-to-use picture masks that
- provide automatic international support for date, time, and currency.
- You can even create user-defined picture mask characters for special
- needs. Numeric fields can be edited in decimal, scientific, hex, or
- binary formats. Orpheus provides a choice of three field editors,
- including a calculator-style editor for right-to-left numeric input.
-
- Validated forms in Orpheus provide even more flexibility at runtime.
- Fields can be calculated, protected, hidden, or required. Event
- handlers can be installed to gain control before or after each field
- is edited. Field definitions -- data type, length, picture mask,
- options -- can be changed on the fly. Validation can be "hard",
- requiring each field to be absolutely correct before the focus leaves
- it, or "soft", highlighting invalid fields but not enforcing
- correctness until the form is accepted.
-
- Limitless Lists
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- Although list boxes are used frequently in Windows apps, the
- internal Windows control is quite limited -- only 8 thousand items
- with 32K of text unless you are willing to do a lot of work yourself.
- And the Delphi list box is just a wrapper around the Windows control.
- Orpheus provides a list box that removes the limits. You can have up
- to 2 billion items with single or multiple selection, each item in any
- color, protected items, and more. You write an event handler that
- provides each item string on demand, so the items don't need to be
- stored in any particular data structure. You can load them from an
- array, from a lookup tree, or even from disk.
-
- Orpheus also provides array editors. These look like list boxes but
- allow in-place editing of any fundamental Pascal data type.
-
- Notebook Tabs the Way You Want Them
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- The tabbed multi-page form is the hottest new user interface
- scheme -- the latest Microsoft apps use it and Windows95 uses it,
- among others. Although Delphi provides tab controls, the Orpheus
- components out-tab them by far in flexibility and features. Orpheus
- tabs can look just like the multi-row tabs seen in Word for Windows
- and Windows95. When you change the font size, number of tabs, or form
- width at design time, the Orpheus tabs automatically adjust
- themselves. Or you can put tabs along the right side of a form, just
- like a spiral notebook.
-
- Edit and View Files of Any Size
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- The built-in Windows edit control is limited in much the same way as
- the list box, to only 32K of text. The Orpheus text editor supports up
- to 16 MB of text on the Windows global heap and provides real time
- word wrap, multi-step undo/redo, bookmarks, search/replace, and more.
-
- Orpheus also includes a file viewer component that browses text or
- binary files of any size by using a page buffering scheme.
-
- The Most Flexible Tables
- ------------------------
- Imagine a table that contains any mixture of editable string and
- numeric data fields, labels, combo boxes, and check boxes. Continue
- this dream table with a capacity of 16K columns and 16K row formats
- for up to 2 billion rows, handled by a sparse array manager that
- minimizes your use of system memory. Combine this with easy Delphi
- design and a range of user-installable event hooks and you have the
- Orpheus table control.
-
- Dozens of Delectable Doodads
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- Orpheus contains too many useful components to describe in detail
- here. Some of them might cost you $69 each as VBX controls without
- source code! You get two-way and four-way spin components that allow
- users to increment fields with the mouse or keyboard. You get a timer
- cache, for managing as many timer events as you need based on a single
- Windows timer resource. You get meter components for monitoring
- progress of long processes. You get a command installation tool for
- associating keystrokes with commands in other components such as the
- text editor. You get a font selection component for picking any
- Windows font, including rotated fonts. You get a calendar component
- for selecting dates between the years 1600 and 3999. And more!
-
- 32 Bit Support When You Need It
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- Borland has promised to release a 32 bit version of Delphi shortly
- after the shipment of Windows95. They've designed VCL so that it will
- port with little or no effort from 16 bit Windows to 32 bit. As a
- result, your investment in native VCL components such as Orpheus will
- pay off with a quick and easy port to 32 bit Windows.
-
- Order Information
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- Orpheus costs $199 and includes a 60 day money back guarantee. It
- will be available for shipment soon after Borland ships Delphi.
- Upgrades will be available to owners of TurboPower's Data Entry
- Workshop.
-
- For more information, or to order, call 1-800-333-4160 from 9 a.m.
- to 5 p.m. Mountain time, or write to TurboPower Software, P.O. Box
- 49009, Colorado Springs, CO 80949. International customers call
- 719-260-9136. Send faxes to 719-260-7151. Send electronic mail to
- CompuServe 76004,2611. Visit our CompuServe area in PCVENB section 6.
- We accept MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, a check in
- U.S. funds drawn on a U.S. bank, or COD (within U.S. only).
-
- Information in this preliminary data sheet is subject to change.
-