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生物信息学中的遗传数据分析的delphi源码。

Source code for COMPONENT 2.0
by Roderic D. M. Page
[e-mail]
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This source code is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (see the file COPYING).

Contact
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I can be reached at [e-mail]. The home page of COMPONENT is taxonomoy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/rod/cpw.html.

Compiling COMPONENT
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The souce code for COMPONENT is written in Turbo Pascal, and requires Borland's Turbo Pascal for Windows version 1.5. At present Borland are no longer distributing this compiler as Turbo Pascal has been superceeded by Delphi. The user interface to COMPONENT depends heavily on Turbo Pascal specific features and class libraries.

Turbo Pascal is a wonderful compiler, but has little or no project management. Because of the size of COMPONENT, and the need for various DLLs, building COMPONENT is a little complicated. I've tried to simplify the process using a makefile. 

Step 1
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Open a command prompt and in the root of the source code directory type

make all
make install

This will compile the custom control DLLs and the installer program (not really needed but included for completeness).

Step 2
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-Launch the Turbo Pascal IDE and from the Options menu choose Open. Select the file TPW.CFG in the source directory. This is the configuration file for COMPONENT. 
-From the Compile menu set the primary file to CPW3.PAS 
-Then choose Compile|Make (or press F9) to compile the main program. 

Step 3
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Step 2 builds the executable CPW3.EXE but we still need to add the resources (because of the size of the program Turbo Pascal can't do this automatically). 

-Launch the Resource Workshop program that comes with Turbo Pascal. Open the file CPW3.EXE. 
-Choose File|Add to project. Select the file BIG.RES in the directory resource. 
-Save the project. 
The file CPW3.EXE now has the menu, bitmap, dialog and icon resources and can be executed.