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Credits and Acknowledgements


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Open Source Tools and Code

  • Most of the source code for managing translations in Trackpro is either taken directly or derived from GNU gettext for Delphi provided by Lars Dybdahl. View the gnugettext license.
  • The Overbyte Internet Component Suite (ICS) has been used for web communications, functions such as product updates and translation. 
  • Project Jedi provided endless code examples and thus provides basis for many of the non-visual routines contained in TrackPro. All project Jedi source code is available at http://jvcl.delphi-jedi.org. The source code is used and adapted with permission, subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 (the "License").
  • The open source NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is used for installation of all TrackPro Products. This software is released under a variety of licenses. NSIS License Agreement
  • Hunspell, the spell checker for LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome is used by TrackPro. NHunspell (a .net Delphi object Pascal implementation) has been used to provide the spelling functions. This implementation supplied by Alexander Halser and licensed under GPL/LGP/LMPL. Sources are available at the NHunspell.

People Who Helped

  • Sonia Jones, at the time employed by Mark Two Engineering, provided the initial funding for the porting of TrackPro from Paradox Application Language to Visual Basic.
  • Mario Arbesu for many suggestions and useful criticism in the development of TrackPro.
  • Graphics were provided by friend and neighbor Theresa Nelson-Chiu of PDX Technologies, LLC.
  • José Ignacio Vela Colina of Cely Industrial in Barcelona, Spain provided hundreds of corrections to my miserable Spanish translation.
  • Ronny Pedersen of BioTec in Oslo, Norway provided the initial translation of TrackPro into Norwegian.
  • Beata Hoffman provided the initial translation of TrackPro into German.
  • Cristian Gnudi of Art SpA in Perugia, Italy provided the translation of TrackPro into Italian.
  • Frank Boemaars of Vitronics Soltec BV in Oosterhout, the Netherlands provided the translation of TrackPro into Dutch.
  • José Teixeira of SERI, Lda in Vila do Conde, Portugal provided the translation of TrackPro into Portuguese.
  • Anders Holm of Väsby Finmekanik AB in Upplands Väsby, Sweden provided the translation of TrackPro into Swedish.
  • Claude St-Arnaud of Logisphere in Montreal, Canada provided the translation into French.
  • Sebastian Berlinski of LBNiW in Lodz Poland provided provided the translation into Polish.
  • End users have provided me with numerous suggestion for the improvement of TrackPro.


Commercial Components

  • Embarcadero Delphi
  • Alpha Controls
  • Fast Reports
  • SiComponents