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WhereontheMap Honored as Embarcadero Cool App for February

If you’re a parent like I am, you understand the feeling of comfort in knowing where your children are at all times and that they are safe. Modern smartphone technologies have provided parents and others to track the whereabouts of loved ones, but our Cool App for February, WhereontheMap, has taken that capability to the next level. WhereontheMap — based on Delphi — is a simple…
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darkUnicode codec for Delphi

Author: Craig Chapman Another library to drop out of my Dark Glass development project today is my unicode codec (now named darkUnicode). https://github.com/chapmanworld/darkUnicode This simple class can be used to encode and decode unicode code-points by hand (independent…
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New in 10.2.3: Using CMake with Ninja

One big new feature in 10.2.3 is support for building with CMake. If you haven’t already, read the previous two posts: introduction to CMake and building with Windows, and building for iOS and Android. Today I’d like to cover using CMake generators, and…
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Dynamic Library Loader – My first published GitHub project!

Author: Craig Chapman A few weeks ago, I began a live-streamed coding project to develop a game engine named DarkGlass using Delphi. When I began the project, I knew that it was possible that several useful libraries might drop out of the development process, and so I have been working to separate the concerns of each piece of the code. Today, my first “useful” code library from that project…
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RTL Enhancements in RAD Studio 10.2.3

As listed in the “What’s New in 10.2.3” DocWiki page,http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Tokyo/en/10.2_Tokyo_-_Release_3, among the changes, new features, and fixesin the latest update of 10.2 Tokyo. One of the added features isMIME…
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RAD Server Support for Web Files in RAD Studio 10.2.3

The RAD Server (formerly EMS) platform is evolving to be a better backend for JavaScript applications, including of course those built with Ext JS. In the 10.2.2 release we improved support for returning JSON data based on the result of database queries, as covered…
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New in 10.2.3: FireMonkey UI Templates - Login Screens

Only the first template will be auto-opened after installing a GUI template, but you can access the other two templates by navigating to C: Users Public Documents Embarcadero Studio 19.0 Samples Object Pascal Login Screens Login Screen #1 Shown: FireUIMasterview with custom Emerald Crystal macOS style applied Shown: FireUIiPhone…
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Google Cloud Shell Network Details

Marco Cantu’s blog post aboutRunning a Delphi Linux Application on Google Cloud Shell got me wondering more about the Google Cloud Shell,specifically around the networking. First of all, is the IP address public? jim@cloudshell:~$ hostname -I 172.18.0.1…
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Delphi and C++Builder 10.2.3 Tokyo Professional Edition - Mobile Pack Install Instructions

Posted: March 14th, 2018 New in 10.2 Tokyo Release 3 for Delphi and C++Builder Professional edition is the inclusion of mobile support for new purchases and customers on active Update Subscription. We’re very excited to include Mobile support in the Pro SKU, and we hope you will find it as exciting as we do to have mobile support out of the box. Previously sold as a separate add-on pack for…
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