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N.A.N.Y. 2008 / c_pp - NANY 2008 entry - simulate the C/C++ preprocessor (for programmers)

« on: December 30, 2007, 06:19 PM »

I now have a contribution to the NANY 2008 programming challenge. I'm sorry, it's a program of less general interest than the program, which I have announced three weeks ago. I couldn't complete that program in time. I have wrapped an existing TextTransformer project into a very simple graphical user interface instead.

"c_pp" is a program for applying, testing or learning C preprocessor directives. C/C++ code can be remodeled into the preprocessed form with c_pp: preprocessor directives are removed, definitions are replaced, not defined areas are removed and macros are expanded.

c_pp can be downloaded from

http://www.texttrans...mer.org/c_pp_en.html

There are some additional explanations too.

The TextTransformer project, on which the c_pp is based, will also be available, as soon as TextTransformer 1.4.1. is published. You then can adapt this project to your personal needs and use it for example in combination with the TextTransformer components. The TextTransformer components, which were presented here for the BCB contest last year, also will be updated and extended very soon.

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website 0.9.8

« on: November 09, 2006, 09:25 AM »

again an Update of Minimal Website:

- the tabs for the website are separated from the tabs of a page now
- the preview can show the pictures of a page now too
- you can use external css file now too. The Homepages of TextTransformer

http://www.texttransformer.com
http://www.texttransformer.de

are now made by Minimal Website with a YAML layout. For demonstration purpose, the resources of these pages are included in the installation package.


Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website Update

« on: October 23, 2006, 11:10 AM »

Minimal Website has a German user interface now too. I also fixed a couple of bugs.

Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website and TetraComponents Update II

« on: September 15, 2006, 07:54 AM »

this week I made a lot of updates of Minimal Website and TetraComponents too.

- There are some additional dialogs to simplify the creation of links, insertion of pictures and for special formatting in the dialog for replacements now.
- Replace expressions can consist of several lines now (!not the search expression)
- The navigation in the program is improved.
- the text to html converter tolerates more "wrong" white spaces
- white spaces in front of links are written
- a ".bak"-file is written before saving a ".wst"-file

The TetraComponents have an additional version check for the tetra_engine.dll now

I now will slow down my updating process and wait for some feedback.


Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website and TetraComponents Update

« on: September 05, 2006, 07:45 AM »

I have updated my both contributions to the C++ Builder contest: Minimal Website and TetraComponents.

The Text2Html project used in Minimal Website for the conversion of plain text to HTML now is simplified and faster. There is an additional hidden instruction to leave a paragraph untouched.
A mouse click on a link in the preview doesn't lead to an empty page any more.

Text2Html is enclosed in the TetraComponents as example too. The components now have a uniform structure. An instance of a component is activated automatically when the Execute method is called.

No matter, what will be the result of the contest, I will continue to improve both Minimal Website and TetraComponents  on http://www.texttransformer.org

Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website Update

« on: August 21, 2006, 07:03 AM »

A first feedback showed that Minimal Website was used in a way which wasn't intended. The program was primarily made to use available texts once more and not, to write new texts. The built-in text editor should be used to carry out smaller changes on existing texts only, to improve the result of the conversion to HTML.
The attempt to write new texts in the editor could lead to errors which are eliminated now. You also can create new texts in Minimal Website now.
There now is an installer for Minimal Website, which can be downloaded from:

http://www.texttrans...s/MiniWs_Inst_en.exe

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / Minimal Website

« on: August 16, 2006, 06:20 PM »

Hello,

I made a second contribution to the CBuilder contest using my first one.



"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/MinimalWebsite.zip


You simply can unpack the zip-file and run the /bin/mini_ws.exe. No changes are made on your system. I will make a smaller installation program soon.

Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz

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Borland C++ Builder Contest / TextTransformer components

« on: July 19, 2006, 03:45 PM »

Hello,

My contribution to the CBuilder contest is a package with three components. I have no experience in distributing packages, so I would be happy, if anybody could tell me, whether he can install it.

By the TextTransformer components you can translate texts with a given structure in new texts with a changed structure. The HTML text of the help to the components is an example of it: it was generated automatically from a plain text file. Totally different kinds of text conversions are possible too.

The TextTransformer package consists of three components:

1. TTextStringTransformer for the transformation of a string into another string
2. TTextFileN2NTransformer for the transformation of one text file into another one
3. TTextFileN21Transformer for the transformation of several text files into a common destination file

The transformation is made by projects, which have to be made with the TextTransformer program. The components capsules the access to TextTransformer projects and to the TextTransformer interpreter. They make it possible, to execute projects directly out of programs, without having to produce source code with the TextTransformer program at first.

The program example is quite primitive. It only is made to demonstrate the use of the components.

The code and the tetra_engine.dll (the interpreter) are free and there is also a free version of TextTransformer.

The components can be downloaded from the TextTransformer web-site:

http://www.texttransformer.com
 
or directly from:

http://www.texttrans.../TetraComponents.zip


Regards

Detlef Meyer-Eltz