Thats a bit Rough James.
I sell plenty of my components and give a away a few on torrys, so do
People on this list.
I quite often get free comps off there, and could not even count on one
hand when I have had a problem that I have never had a response from the
author in some form or another.
Admitidly, I only EVER get comps. with full source.
Jeremy
-----Original Message-----
From: "James Sugrue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 15:49:47 +1300
Subject: Re: [DUG]: My gripe for the week - 3rd party components
> This is the reason I only use 3rd party comps from reputable places
> like Woll2Woll and (sic) Turbopower. You generally get what you pay
> for, there are exceptions of course, but I would never use anything
> from Torrys for example.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 12:07 PM
> Subject: [DUG]: My gripe for the week - 3rd party components
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> 3rd party Components are great - they save a heap of work writing
> something from scratch (no need to re-invent the wheel). And usually
> the writers of the components are fairly helpful when it comes to
> queries.
>
>
>
> My gripe is that often these components don't come with much help. I
> end up spending a lot of time trying various properties on the Object
> Inspector, trying to get the effect I want. Instead of spending my
> time programming (which I enjoy), I can end up spending hours being a
> "tweaker of properties" on a component which has little instructions!
>
>
>
> Mostly components don't come with any electronic manual, only help.
> Usually the help gives a hint, but doesn't quite give me the scenario
> I'm looking at. I end up needing to contact the writer and plead for
> help.
>
>
>
> Sometimes it comes down to a bug in the component, which I have to
> fix or do a work-around for.
>
>
>
> Oh well, that's life - but it sure annoys the hell out of me when I
> have buggy or undocumented components, and have to become a "tweaker of
> component properties" (a lot of guess work) versus writing some real
> code.
>
>
>
> Dave Jollie
>
> Tower NZ IT
>
> 09 368 4259
>
>
>
>
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