Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software. To celebrate the recent π day 2024 with a Delphi flavor I revisited the previous sample I made with Rudy’s Big Numbers library adding the functionality to view the digits of π in real time as they are being generated. Previously it would generate any number of digits you wanted, but you could only…
How To Run Turbo Pascal On An Android Phone!
March 13, 2024
Here’s a guest blog post by Jim McKeeth, Embarcadero MVP and US Director of GDK Software Why run Turbo Pascal on Android? Because we can!
As part of the Turbo Pascal 40th birthday celebration (combined with Delphi’s 29th birthday) I did a short demo of…
Command-line Compilation Of Delphi Projects: Real-life Examples
November 6, 2023
Delphi app command-line compilation allows developers to compile a project in the background regime without the necessity to run IDE software. This approach is very useful for automating the compilation process, especially in those cases when you need to compile a lot of…
How To Record Exact Operation Execution Time With Delphi
January 24, 2023
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…
How To Create A PDF File With Delphi And Add An Image To It
January 2, 2023
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…
Easily Create Web Apps For Desktop And Mobile
December 12, 2022
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…
Read Facebook Account Data In A Cross Platform App
November 24, 2022
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…
As published in the Official Gazette of the Executive Branch on 10/26/2022, Centro Paula Souza (CPS) and Embarcadero renewed their partnership in providing academic licenses for CPS units for another 24 months.
This guarantees an extension of Embarcadero Technologies RAD…
Modernizing Legacy Delphi Code? MVP Oren Aviram Shows You How
October 30, 2022
Modernizing legacy code poses less of challenge than may seem at first sight, as long as the right tool is deployed. In an on-demand webinar from DelphiCon, Embacadero MVP Oren Aviram discusses the challenges of legacy code modernization, and presents Delphi Parser, an intelligent find-and-replace tool that knows Delphi syntax and can even link between objects through code. It’s a Delphi robot…