readme.txt

ics Internet 控件

ICS - Internet Component Suite
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(Aka FPIETTE's Components)


Revised: May 4, 2004
http://www.overbyte.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette/indexuk.htm
http://users.swing.be/francois.piette/indexuk.htm

Table of content:
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- Legal issues
- Donate
- Register
- Installation
- Sample applications
- Support
- Midware
- Known problems
- Special thanks


Legal issues: 
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              Copyright (C) 1997-2004 by Fran鏾is PIETTE 
              Rue de Grady 24, 4053 Embourg, Belgium
              <[e-mail]>

              This software is provided 'as-is', without any express or
              implied warranty. In no event will the author be held liable
              for any damages arising from the use of this software.

              Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any
              purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it
              and redistribute it freely, subject to the following
              restrictions:

              1. The origin of this software must not be misrepresented,
                 you must not claim that you wrote the original software.
                 If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment
                 in the product documentation would be appreciated but is
                 not required.

              2. Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and
                 must not be misrepresented as being the original software.

              3. This notice may not be removed or altered from any source
                 distribution.

              4. You must register this software by sending a picture postcard
                 to the author. Use a nice stamp and mention your name, street
                 address, EMail address and any comment you like to say.


Donate
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ICS is freeware. You can use it without paying anything except the registration
postcard (see "register" below). But of course donations are welcome. You can
send cash (Euro currency or US Dollars) in an envelop to my street address or
buy a gift certificate at amazon in the UK. I will then use it to buy books.
Here is the direct URL at Amazon UK (nearest to my home, please don't use another):
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/gc-email-order1/ref=g_gc_email/202-6198323-6681414
For larger amount, contact me by email.


Register
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ICS is freeware. If you use the components, you must register by sending a 
picture postcard showing the area you lives in and some beautiful stamps for 
my kids who are stamp collectors. Do not use an envelop, I collect USED
postcards sent to me.

Address your card to: Francois PIETTE, rue de Grady 24, 4053 Embourg, Belgium.
Don't forget to mention your name, address and EMail.


Installation:
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The zip file has subdirectories in it. You must use the pkunzip -d option
to restore this directory tree or you will have problems because the files 
will not be in their proper subdirectories.

This is the subdirectory layout:

.\                           Info directory
.\delphi\internet            Delphi sample applications (all Delphi versions)
.\cpp\internet               C++Builder sample applications
.\cpp\internet\bcb1          C++Builder version 1 projects
.\cpp\internet\bcb3          C++Builder version 3 projects
.\cpp\internet\bcb4          C++Builder version 4 projects
.\cpp\internet\bcb5          C++Builder version 5 projects
.\cpp\internet\bcb6          C++Builder version 6 projects
.\delphi\vc                  Delphi 1.x files (winsock.pas 16 bits and *.dcr)
.\delphi\vc32                Delphi (1/2/3/4/5/6/7) and C++Builder (1/3/4/5/6) components
.\Delphi1                    Automated build for Delphi 1. Not for beginners.
.\Delphi2                    Automated build for Delphi 2. Not for beginners.
.\Delphi3                    Automated build for Delphi 3. Not for beginners.
.\bcb1                       Automated build for Bcb 1. Not for beginners.

DELPHI 7: Directory VC32 contains IcsDel70.dpk which is a package source for
all components. Using Delphi, do a file/open, select *.dpk and browse to
the VC32 directory. Select IcsDel70.dpk and open it. Then click on the 
Install button. You should see the FPiette tab on the component gallery.
Add VC32 directory path to your library path (Tools menu / Environment Options
/ Library / Library Path. Add VC32 path at the end of the existing path).

Once the package is installed, you may open the sample projects. There is a
project group called Del70Sam.bpg which has all sample programs. Open it
with file/open, browse to the Internet directory, select and open Del70Sam.bpg.
Then Project/Build all projects. You'll get all sample programs compiled.
It is likely that for each project, Delphi complains about a missing .res
file. This is not a problem, Delphi will recreate it as needed. They have not
been included to save space in the zip file.

Note 1: Delphi may run out of memory if you ask to compile all projects at 
once. If you have not enough RAM, then compile each project individually.

Note 2: Delphi 7 has new warnings which triggers a lot of messages for 100% OK
code. You can turn those warnings off in the project/ options / Compiler messages
and deselecting: "Deprecated symbol", "Platform symbol", "usafe type", "unsafe code", 
"usafe typecast". Those are intended for .NET and Linux portability. You can
safely ignore them if you run windows. For you facility, I included ics7spec.zip
with project options files having disabled those messages. Unzip it in the same
directory as the whole ICS, restoring directory tree present in zip file.


DELPHI 6: Same installation as Delphi 7. Files are IcsDel60.dpk and Del60Sam.bpg.
(Note 2 doesn't apply to Delphi 6).

DELPHI 5: Same installation as Delphi 6. Files are IcsDel50.dpk and Del50Sam.bpg.

DELPHI 4: Same installation as Delphi 5. Files are IcsDel40.dpk and Del40Sam.bpg.

DELPHI 3: Same installation as Delphi 5. Files are IcsDel30.dpk. Del30Sam.bpg 
doesn't exists because project group was introduced with Delphi 4. Open each
project individually (*.dpr).

DELPHI 2: Directory VC32 contains all components. You must add all those
components into your library. But warning: not all files are components.
Only those with a Register procedure are components. Other are just support
files and must not be installed as components. To install a component file,
do Component/Install, then click on the Add button, then click on the Browse
button and browse to the VC32 directory. Select a component file such as
wsocket.pas and click on OK. Do it again for all component files and
finally click OK button on the Install Component dialog window. Your 
library will be rebuilt. You should see the tab FPiette added to your
component gallery.

Once the components are all installed, you may open the sample projects
each one after the other and compile them. For each project, do file/open
and select the dpr file in the internet directory. Then Project/Build All.


DELPHI 1: The install procedure is the same as for Delphi 2. But you must
add the directory VC into the library path before VC32 directory which
will be added automatically when you add the first component source.
VC directory in the library path is needed because Delphi 1 doesn't have 
built in winsock support. ICS contains winsock.pas in VC directory to 
add winsock support. VC directory also contains 16 bits component resource 
files (*.dcr) needed by Delphi 1. VC32 contains the 32 bits resource files.
If you use only Delphi 1, you can safely copy all files from VC to VC32
directory, but not the contrary.

Once the components are all installed, you may open the sample projects
each one after the other and compile them. For each project, do file/open
and select the dpr file in the internet directory. Then Project/Build All.

BCB6: follow BCB4 instruction below. Package is IcsBcb60.bpk and samples
project group is Bcb60Sam.bpg. Directory is ...\internet\bcb6.

BCB5: follow BCB4 instruction below. Package is IcsBcb50.bpk and samples
project group is Bcb50Sam.bpg. Directory is ...\internet\bcb5.

BCB4: First you need to install all components. There is a package in
Delphi\VC32 directory, called IcsBcb40.bpk. You do File/Open project and
browse to IcsBcb40.bpk. Select and open it, then Project/Build IcsBcb40.
Once the package is compiled, you can install it into your component
palette: Component/Install Packages, click the Add button and select 
Delphi\VC32\IcsBcb40.bpl (you just generated this file by compiling the 
package). Click OK button. You must now see FPiette Tab on the component 
gallery.

Once the components are all installed, you may open the sample projects
each one after the other and compile them. For each project, do file/open
and select the dpr file in the internet directory. Then Project/Build All.
Projects are located in CPP/INTERNET/BCB4. There is also a project group
Bcb40Sam.bpg which contains all sample projects.
It is likely that for each project, Bcb complains about a missing .res
file. This is not a problem, Bcb will recreate it as needed. They have not
been included to save space in the zip file.

Note: Packages are in the full ICS, in ICS.ZIP file. If you downloaded a
partial ICS, then you have to add each component by hand in the package
of your choice.

BCB 3: First you need to install all components. There is a package in
Delphi\VC32 directory, called IcsBcb30.bpk. You do File/Open project and
browse to IcsBcb30.bpk. Select and open it, then Project/Build IcsBcb30.
Once the package is compiled, you can install it into your component
palette: Packages/Install Packages, click the Add button and select 
Delphi\VC32\IcsBcb30.bpl (you just generated this file by compiling the 
package). Click OK button. You must now see FPiette Tab on the component 
gallery.
 
Directory is CPP/INTERNET/BCB3.

BCB1: First you need to install all components that are located in
Delphi/VC32. Components are all Object Pascal sources. You must select
*.pas when in the open dialog box (Menu/Component/Install/Add/Browse).
Components are files with a register procedure. Do not install files
with no register procedure (if you try, you'll get an error message).

Once the components are all installed, you may open the sample projects
each one after the other and compile them. For each project, do file/open
and select the dpr file in the internet directory. Then Project/Build All.
Projects are located in CPP/INTERNET/BCB1.


NOTES: 
- If you use Delphi 1, 2, 3, 4 or BCB 1, 3, 5 or 6, you may have an error 
message complaining about Font.Charset, OldCreateOrder and other
properties. Those are new properties in newer Delphi or BCB versions. 
You can safely ignore those errors because those properties are not 
used by the components nor sample programs. You may encounter this 
error at run time. To avoid it, you must open each form at design time
and ignore the error. Then recompile. If you don't ignore the error 
at design time, you'll have it at runtime !

- If you have Delphi or BCB complaining about a file not found, add VC32
directory to your library path.

- If you are using BCB3, 4, 5 or 6, you may encounter an error at link time 
such as "Unable to open file MWBCB30.LIB" (or other libs). This is a bug
in BCB. To solve it, close BCB and open the package or project file with 
notepad or any text editor and remove any reference to the missing libraries. 
Then start BCB again, reopen the project and rebuilt it. With BCB5/6 you can
edit project option file (right click in project manager).

- Don't forget that the C++Builder components are located in .\delphi\vc32 
which is object pascal source code (not a problem for C++Builder, just