ColorButton unit with TColorButton saved for posterity as http://delphi.about.com got hi-jacked.
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/07/18
Hopefully my blog will last longer than the original delphi.about.org articles.
Last year, I noticed yet another path into bit rot: [WayBack] The title reads “Source Code for the TColorButton Delphi Component”… I must be going blind because I can’t find it – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
In this case, http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa061104a.htm got redirected via http://delphi.about.com/od/vclusing/fl/Source-Code-for-the-TColorButton-Delphi-Component.htm to [WayBack] https://www.thoughtco.com/source-code-for-tcolorbutton-4077901 which is a copy of the original article failing to preserve the download links of the original source code.
It doesn’t help that the original source download at http://delphi.about.com/library/code/ncaa061104a.htm also redirects to https://www.thoughtco.com/delphi-programming-4133475 a generic catch all of [WayBack] Delphi Programming where http://delphi.about.com also redirects to.
In other words:
http://delphi.about.com got hi-jacked.
So here are some links to various forms of that source code:
- Original code saved by theWayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040917051943/http://delphi.about.com/library/code/ncaa061104a.htm
- Original download saved by the WayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040917051943/http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/code/colorbutton.zip
- Original article saved by the WayBack machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20040801010104/http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa061104a.htm
- Modified code that Thomas didn’t like: [WayBack] http://users.jyu.fi/~vesal/kurssit/winohj/htyot/h05/tiveniem/ColorButton.pas
- Here extra code was added.
- Modified code that Thomas did like: [WayBack] http://www.swissdelphicenter.ch/en/showcode.php?id=1100
- Here attribution to the original author was removed
–jeroen
zarkogajic said
Hi Jeroen,
Argh .. they (About.com/Thought.co) are tearing my work and I cannot do much about it :(
Luckily Wayback machine is working (still) :)
-ž
jpluimers said
I an all too much aware of putting time and effort into stuff that gets put behind walls or even thrown away.
Thanks for all the work though, much appreciated!
–jeroen