THE 2006 DONATIONCODER.COM C++ BUILDER DONATIONWARE PROGRAMMING CONTEST RESULTS

About C++ Builder

We are huge fans of Borland's C++ Builder here at DonationCoder.com. It's used in many of our more elaborate windows programs, and it's one of the most powerful tools for C++ programmers that want to do rapid development of rich Windows GUI applications.

About Judging The Results

There were many excellent submissions to the contest, and choosing winners was difficult and several of the decisions could honestly have gone either way. Judging was based on a number of criteria including completeness, documentation, polish, the existence of alternative free tools, the possibilities of improvement, the estimated difficulty of implementation, the usefulness/fun of the entry, and more. We categorized entries as described on our contest rules page, in order to ensure some diversity, but also awarded prizes to individual coders based on multiple entries.

Download and Try For Yourself!

One of the main points of this contest was to encourage the development of donationware software. On behalf of the authors we invite you to download and use these programs. If you find them useful, will you please consider making a donation to the authors to support their continued development?

	Sep 2006 07 Soduku Game, Editor, Solver Complete Soduku Game with Editor and Solver. Download: here. This is a really fantastic entry, complete, polished, documented, and fun to play.  Helps you solve and manage soduku games as well. posted by gillz67 (permalink) (read 4 comments)

	Sep 2006 07 Virtual Keyboard Tool Virtual Keyboard Tool let's you type into programs using only the mouse: Download available soon. posted by mouser (permalink) (read 4 comments)

	August 2006 17 SQL Advanced Manager SQL Advanced Manager is a great solution for: -professionals and amateurs who in any manner work with databases, especially MS ACCESS -students -people who would like to learn SQL It’s main purpose is to work with database via SQL queries. However, it also provides many other things such as fast accessing to all the tables in the database, and also to all the fields in those tables… Some main features are: -Quick access to all the data in any table with just one mouse click -Many tools and wizards which simplify working with your database -Syntax assistant is also integrated into the program, so the beginners would not have any problems while learning SQL, and the professionals, on the other side, would have a quick reminder on basic SQL syntax. -Many more.. Download: Here See more screenshots and read more about SQL Advanced Manager.. posted by Blaster (permalink) (read 7 comments)

	August 2006 16 Minimal Website "Minimal Website" is a program to make a complete websites from plain texts. The texts are translated to formatted HTML contents automatically which then are embedded in a common layout for the website. A navigation menu is generated automatically too. Colors, fonts etc. can be adjusted in corresponding dialogs. Special attention was put on search engine optimization. As a special feature you can call your own HTML converters. That's where the the TextTransformer components are used. You can see, how such a website looks like at: http://www.texttransformer.org   There you also can download Minimal Website or download it directly from: http://www.texttrans...s/MiniWs_Inst_en.exe Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss.. posted by dme (permalink) (read 2 comments)

	August 2006 16 SkyIDE - a Free C++ and Java Integrated Devlopment Environment SkyIDE is a free integrated development environment for C++, Java, and other projects. SkyIDE stands for Sky Integrated Development Environment. * Multiple project support * Multiple C++ compiler support * Each project of type C++ can be set to use a different C++ compiler * Tabbed document Interface implemented using MDI with drag-tab support * You can have different projects open at the same time. You can have HTML, C++, Java, PHP and JavaScript projects all open at the same time. * Powerful text manipulation functions:   Project URL and DOWNLOAD: http://www.skyide.com Main Screenshot: http://www.skyide.com/images/main.png Other screenshots: http://www.skyide.com/screenshots.html Continue reading the rest of the entry and discuss.. posted by SkyIDE (permalink) (read 6 comments)

	August 2006 14 FlashCard Pro FlashCard Pro is a tool to help you study. Works great for high school and college students. I used it for my Spanish class last semester! Download: Documentation: http://www.xhirl.com...flashcardpro/webhelp posted by relipse (permalink) (read 2 comments)