My "Square One" Page for Turbo Delphi Explorer
I've been getting plenty of gripes about the undocumented installation process for the new Turbo Delphi products, and those from people I consider reasonably experienced. I can only wonder what total newcomers (to whom the product is in part targeted) are doing. So in response I've posted a summary of the installation process as I've doped it out in a whole new page, called Turbo Delphi Explorer from Square One.
I've discovered that the Indy components are in fact installed by the Turbo Delphi Explorer installer, but they're not added to the Tool Palette. You can treat Indy as a library and still use the components; you just can't drag them off the Tool Palette and drop them on a form. Given that most of the Indy components are not visual, that's less of a handicap than it would be with visible, sizeable, positionablecomponents. I'm going to clean up and simplify my little domain name resolver program as a demo of how to do this. Give me a few days; lots going on here.
In general, once you get past the install, Turbo Delphi Explorer is a lot of fun, and a killer product considering that it's a free download. I do think the $500 price for the paid version is a little high, and hope they will rethink that. $99 would be killer, but I'd accept $199 without any complaints.
Let me know how you're faring with Turbo Delphi Explorer, or any of the other Turbo Explorers. If you've learned anything interesting, let me know so I can pass it along to my 12,000+ monthly readers!