We are very excited to announce the Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney Release 1, also known as RAD Studio 10.4.1.
This new release builds on the feature set of 10.4, enhancing existing features throughout the product and offering a more robust and smooth experience to Delphi and C++ Builder developers. RAD Studio 10.4.1 has a strong focus on quality improvements. Key quality focus…
Take your Delphi & C++ Builder projects to the next level with Chakra JScript Engine!
August 31, 2020
Intro
Many Delphi developers adore the language integration options of the Embarcadero Delphi and C++ Builder. For instance, you can utilize Assembly language within the Delphi code by just opening asm scope. This is an inline assembly feature. Moreover, you can integrate…
Enable Windows Portable Devices (WPD) feature in your Delphi and C++ Builder Projects!
August 31, 2020
Overview
The Windows Portable Devices (WPD) feature allows computers to communicate with the attached media and storage devices. With the WPD, you can explore a device, for instance, smartphones, flash USB cards, and many more.
If you want to enable the WPD feature in…
Efficiently Manage KeyguardManager API in your Delphi FireMonkey Android Projects
August 29, 2020
When you begin an enterprise-level project, you must integrate authentication options into your projects. At that point, you can use Android Built-in APIs, such as the KeyguardManager API, to lock and unlock the keyguard in your Delphi or C++ Builder FireMonkey Android application.
To handle this API from your FireMonkey project, we can use the WINSOFT Authentication for Android library. This…
C++ Builder; Common Libraries (Run Time Library), Parallel Programming Library.
August 28, 2020
C++ Builder provides three levels of development:1. Components (VCL and FMX)2. Common Libraries (RTL).3. Platform APIs (iOS, Android, Mac OS)In this post we will discuss the Common Libraries (RTL).C++ Builder has several hundred functions, macros, and classes that you call…
Looking to upgrade the memory manager in Embarcadero Dev C++ I investigated a number of memory manages including FastMM4-AVX. The second memory manager I looked at is called BigBrain 2020 and it looks to have significant performance improvements in some areas. There is a…
Desktop applications have been undervalued for a long time. All attention was reserved for web and mobile. While both Microsoft and Apple made strides to evolve the desktop, there has been far less energy and economic momentum behind that platform. Today the maturity of web and mobile, as well as new use cases in collaboration and AI, are fueling a rediscovery of desktops. After all, desktops…
Boost C++ Compile Speeds with Newly Updated TwineCompile - Now in GetIt!
August 28, 2020
by Jonathan Benedicto of JomiTech, the makers of TwineCompile
TwineCompile is our solution to slow C++ compile times. Integrating directly into the C++Builder IDE, it dramatically reduces the compile/make/build times by employing techniques such as multithreading…
The comma separated values format (CSV) has been used for exchanging and converting data between various spreadsheet programs for quite some time. It can be used as an Import/Export feature on multiple old and modern applications. And we could say is the de facto standard…
Intro
The FireMonkey Camera component, built by WINSOFT, allows you to configure all the available options of your Camera hardware. It includes Audio configurations, like Audio Compressor, available audio devices, and supports multiple video configurations.
Overview
This FireMonkey Camera component uses DirectShow 9 API. The Microsoft DirectShow application programming interface (API) is…
