Hot Fudge is a collection of gadgets, components, functions and utilities designed for easy integration with Magic/eDeveloper - greatly extending the capabilities of MSE's Rapid Application Development Toolkit.

Hot Fudge adds drag and drop, treeview controls, outlook-style bars, animated gif/avi/ani support, hyperlinks, mail, PDF creation, embedded browsers, MSAgent support, registry/INI access, charts, audio, cursor control, common dialogs, Explorer-style buttons and so much more to Magic. Compatible with Magic v7x/8x on win95/98/NT/2k/XP/2k3.

Hot Fudge v1 specifically targetted Magic v7/8 and was last released on 11-03-2003. After a long break from this project, new Hot Fudge components for Magic v9.4 & eDeveloper 10 are under development.

"Back to Basics"

HotFudge for Magic 7/8 was pretty cool when it was developed and released some 4 or more years ago. A powerful subclassing engine gave the Magic developer a host of new gadgets and components hitherto unimaginable. That was then, this is now.

Magic/eDeveloper v9 and 10 has since moved on, become more sophisticated and rounded-out some of that functionality that made HotFudge so vital. You don't need HotFudge to do treeviews, or embedded browsers or drag&drop because Magic supports these things now.

But there's always a place for add-ons...

So what I'm doing is getting right back to basics, I've deprecated the stuff that isn't required in v9/10 and I'm releasing here the first in a regular series of updates to the HotFudge utilities suite specifically designed for v9, v10 and beyond.

(HotFudge v1.63 still exists and is still available but is only supported for Magic v7 and v8.)

Help me build a better HotFudge, help me build a better Magic. Send me your ideas for HotFudge features and I'll select the best and most practical and make them happen. Just like the old days.