TurboPower Visual PlanIt
Table of contents
1. Introduction
2. Package names
3. Installation
4. Version history
4.1 Release 1.0.3
4.2 Release 1.0.4
4.3 Release 1.0.6
4.4 Releases 1.0.8 and 1.0.10
4.5 Release 1.2.0
4.6 Current version
5. Additional help
5.1 Original TurboPower documentation
5.2 Wiki page
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1. Introduction
Visual PlanIt is a set of synchronized, data-aware components for
adding time, task, & contact management capabilities to applications
written in Borland Delphi & C++Builder. Get that Outlook look & feel
without the hassle.
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2. Package names
These are the TurboPower Visual PlanIt packages available for the Lazarus
version:
laz_visualplanit.lpk --- runtime package for the common components
laz_visualplanit_design.lpk --- designtime package
laz_visualplanit_zeos.lpk --- runtime package for the zeos datastore
laz_visualplanit_zeos_design.lpk --- designtime package for the zeos datastore
The old naming scheme of the original Delphi components is discontinued.
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3. Installation
To install TurboPower Visual PlanIt into your IDE, take the following
steps:
1. Unzip the release files into a directory (e.g., d:\vplanit).
2. Start Lazarus
3. Go to "Package" / "Load package file .lpk" and select the run-time package
laz_visualplanit.lpk. Compile.
4. Open the designtime package laz_visualplanit_design.lpk.
Click "Use" > "Install". If you want to install the addon package for
zeos components decline to rebuild the IDE and contine with 5,
otherwise go to 7.
5. Open the zeos runtime package laz_visualplanit_zeos.lpi. Compile.
6. Open the zeos designtime package laz_visualplanit_design.lpi.
Click "Use" > "Install".
7. Confirm to rebuild the IDE.
8. After some time the IDE will restart with the new components installed.
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4. Version history
4.1 Release 1.0.3
Please note that the following issues are from Bugzilla. These
bugs were not exported to SourceForge.
Bug fixes
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3547 - List Index out of Bounds error
3589 - Needs OnDblClick Event
3877 - ContactGrid won't scroll to a newly selected contact if it is
out of view.
3979 - FlexDataStore bug
4021 - TVpTask.SetChanged marks Events dirty instead of taks. (duh!)
4076 - VPDBISAMDataStore needs an AfterPost event.
4078 - 12 and 24 hour display backward in the Events
4079 - Using the DBIsamDataStore, recurring events show up under all
resources.
4080 - De Piggify the DBIsamDataStore component.
4.2 Release 1.0.4
This release is Lazarus-only. It won't compile under Delphi any more.
- Replace hard-coded MS Sans Serif font by "default" to use the system font
- Fix crashes due to inplace editors being destroyed.
- Replace lrs resources by res resources. FPC 2.4 or greater required!
- Add FlexDatastore and its component editor to package.
- Rename package to laz_visualplanit.
- Add new event field "Location". Rename some fields for more consistency.
- Add datastores for TBufDataset, Sqlite3, ZEOS, Firebird
- Add non-database datastores for xml and ini files
- Fix NavBar, PrintPreview, VpClock etc.
- Translate user interface by means of po files
- DPI-aware and translation-tolerant form layout
- Add new sample projects
4.3 Release 1.0.6
- Add mORMot datastore
- Add drag and drop of events to DayView and WeekView
- Add hint support to DayView, WeekView, MonthView, and Contact Grid
- New contact fields for
- three email addresses (in total)
- two websites
- 2nd address (work address, home address)
- department
and add them to the contact editor; redesigned contact editor.
- Activate task fields Priority and Category in task editor.
- Holiday support
- Separate design-time and run-time packages
4.4 Releases 1.0.8 and 1.0.10
- Bug fixes
- JSON datastore
- Improved integration of the LCL scaling of Lazarus 1.8
- VpNavBar component editor working in Lazarus version
4.5 Release 1.2.0
- New properties ShowNavButtons, FixedDate, RowHeight, RowLinesStep,
SimpleRowTime of VpDayView
- VpContactGrid can import contacts from vCard files (*.vcf)
- VpDayView/VpWeekView and VpTaskList can import events and tasks,
respectively, from iCalendar files (*.ical, *.ics)
- New property CaptionStyle of VpContactButtons.
4.6 Current development version (1.3)
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5. Additional help
5.1 Original TurboPower documentation
Get TurboPower's original 300-page pdf file from the official
SourceForge site of the Delphi version
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpvplanit/files/tpvplanit_docs/
5.2 Wiki page
The wiki site http://wiki.freepascal.org/Turbopower_Visual_PlanIt contains a
short documentation of the Lazarus specific version together with a "Getting
started".
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