To know how to get the information on the exact execution time of an operation in your Windows and cross platform apps can be useful in all sorts of circumstances. For example, it can be necessary when you need to show users the time spent on the execution of a long operation (by the way, in such a situation, high accuracy is rarely required). Or you may need to know the exact time needed for…
PDF (Portable Document Format) is a widely used open electronic document format which can be easily used in all your cross platform apps. It is really convenient thanks to its compatibility with numerous programs. As a result, it is possible to view PDF documents using…
Web-based apps are quite popular today. Whether they are for mobile, or desktop devices web applications do not require installation and manual updating as they are stored on a web server. This means there’s only one place for you, the developer, to maintain, and for…
Facebook is a social network that boasts high popularity among users from all over the world. Earlier, we have already shown how it is possible to automate the process of posting different types of info on a Facebook page using the Facebook Graph API. We’ve created a Facebook app, an access token and API commands that we’ve further used in our cross platform apps using Delphi and the…
How To Automate The Mathcad Prime Software With Delphi Using COM
November 3, 2022
Among the most notable features of Delphi, it’s worth mentioning the ability to enhance your Windows app development by interacting with other installed software products on your computer, using the COM technology for functionality embedding or automating.
In this…
Do you want to know what the Factory Method Pattern is and what it can do for you? When you are writing simple or complex applications, you might need to create multiple classes inheriting the same class or implementing the same interface. This is easier when we have a…
Several older approaches to storing data related to program settings have been replaced by newer ones since the introduction of Delphi as the language kept pace with emerging modern ideas and practices. In general, examples of saving settings always followed the principles of the host operating system. This article looks into the various ways to store the settings for a cross platform app in the…
From this article, you will learn the difference between working with databases via the ADO technology and the FireDAC library. Using the right database technology is often a critical part of designing your apps, particularly for Windows application development where there…
Developers often get requests to create forms where it is crucial to pay attention to the position of a cursor after the Tab key is pressed at every point of the program execution. This can be particularly important when developing cross platform apps where following…
Inevitably, during any the lifecycle of any app development there can be a lot of projects that were written or maintained during the period of the Delphi 5/6/7 popularity or even earlier. Many of them have been already migrated to newer versions of the programming language. But some of them are still being developed in old IDEs. Usually, they use a huge range of external components. Some of them…
