We are making our Dejal Generic Utilities source code available. It consists of several Pascal units, divided into various groupings. The units are used in all Classic Dejal Systems products to provide a set of shared useful routines to handle everything from events, dialogs, preferences, strings, and much more. The units were written over a ten year period, so the style and functionality of some could be improved, but they support a wide range of functionality and may prove very useful to novice and expert Pascal programmers alike. Every routine has at least a comment at the top outlining how to use the routine.
The units included are:
- genCustomCreators.p: Handles a file type/creator pop-up menu next to a field.
- genDialogs.p: A large unit with over 100 routines to support modal and modeless dialogs, including automatic resizing, cursor control, item filtering, and much more.
- genEvents.p: Handles keyboard events and several useful Apple events.
- genFiles.p: Routines to manipulate files, including creating unique files and other useful operations.
- genGraphics.p: Routines to draw text, icons, graphics, etc.
- genNumerics.p: A collection of routines for math, bitwise, pointer and handle mangement.
- genPrefs.p: Routines to read and write data to a preferences file.
- genProgressDialogs.p: Maintains a self-contained progress dialog.
- genResources.p: Routines for maintaining string list (STR#) resources.
- genSort.p: A unit to handle maintaining and sorting a list of strings.
- genStrings.p: Lots of routines to handle all sorts of useful operations on strings.
- genToolbox.p: Basic Mac toolbox stuff and overriding built-in functions.
Important Note
These sources are no longer in active development. It is unlikely there will be any future updates.