XG Bone (xgBone.exe + bone.dll) is a graphic user interface to illustrate the use of my Delphi 5 encapsulation of the Bone SDK build 14, made available by Faber and Ima Genius. The aim of the application is to implement all the Bone methods and callbacks. If you find some resemblance to the official Bone client, you are absolutely right, but there are some differences. You can download and test XG Bone, just unzip it into a convenient folder. Please refer to ImaBot's Bone page for information about Bone and the Bone SDK.

Download the XG Bone application.
 

For Delphi programmers, I have made available the source code of XG Bone, written for Delphi 5 (it will possibly work with Delphi 3 and 4, the overload directive and the Math unit have been removed). I have included the following files:

• bone.dll (Bone SDK build 14), provided by © Imabot
  the original bone.h and bone.lib are also included
• xgBoneAPI.pas has the Delphi translation of bone.h (Bone SDK build 14)
  Note: this unit has all you need to use the bone.dll, you may safely build your application using it alone, and ignore xgBoneClb.pas and xgBoneClasses.pas; but you are welcome to study them and use them if you wish.
• xgBoneClb.pas has a procedure to couple the xgBoneAPI.pas callbacks to TxgBoneCentral in xgBoneClasses.pas.
• xgBoneClasses.pas contains one main class: TxgBoneCentral, and a few smaller ones. TxgBoneCentral contains the full object oriented Delphi encapsulation of the Bone SDK. Only one instance of this class may be present in an application, say BoneCentral. Applications only need to mention this unit in their uses clause (all 3 units must be reacheable by the compiler). Create an instance of the BoneCentral, call it's initialise method, install your custom callbacks and use BoneCentral's methods to log into the Bone chat server.

All other files belong to the XGBone.exe application. To load the code of this application in Delphi, open xgBone.dpr. Read the comments in FormBoneMain (especially FormCreate), xgBoneApi.pas, xgBoneClb.pas and xgBoneClasses.pas.

Send comments to xelag@3dee.nl

Download the XG Bone Delphi 5 source code
 

xgboneconsole02, a translation to Delphi of Sample program #2 on the Bone SDK site, a Console example. It requires bone.dll and xgBoneApi.pas It does not use my classes, only the core H translation in xgBoneApi.pas.

xgbonewin02, a translation to Delphi of Sample program #2 on the Bone SDK site, using Windows instead of a Console. It requires bone.dll, xgBoneApi.pas, xgBoneClasses.pas and xgBoneClb.pas. It has more functionality than its Console counterpart, and uses my xgBone classes.

Bone: copyright © 1999-2003 ImaBot

XG Bone: copyright © 2000-2004 Alex Grigny de Castro (XelaG)

Delphi: copyright © 1983, 1998 Inprise corporation
 
 

page updated January 23rd 2004