So many great entries for the Delphi 26th Showcase Challenge! There were 170 entries covering a wide range of project types. Everything from games and multimedia to line-of-business and consumer software. Both on VCL on the desktop and FireMonkey on mobile platforms. It is so easy to get wrapped up in our view of what Delphi is useful for, we sometimes miss its amazing flexibility. I recommend…
Cross-Platform Enterprise-Grade Cryptography Library For Windows And Mobile
March 9, 2021
In the olden times, Cryptography was utilized for transforming plain messages or just plaintext into an indecipherable format. And these incomprehensible words were sent to each other and if the receiver knows the algorithm to convert that ciphered text to a readable format.
Delphi and C++ Builder provides a set of advanced REST components to talk with external APIs. Several sample applications show you how to exchange data with APIs. For example, theCloud API Testsample has fully functional 5K+ lines of code demo for playing with…
A Delphi developer asked how do you change the background color of a FMX (FireMonkey) TEdit ?
As many know, for a VCL TEdit, you could just set the color property of the TEdit, like this:
Edit1.Color := clYellow;
Then at Run-Time, after calling Edit1.Color := clYellow, the Edit1 looks like this:
But, a FMX TEdit does not have a Color property, so how do you do the same for a FMX TEdit?
There are…
Sometimes Developers Want to list or Identify USB devices connected to the machine and perform some actions to the USB devices programmatically. How do enumerate the USB devices quickly? Don’t know how to do it?. Don’t worry. MiTec’s System Information Management…
Mobile app development can be categorized into the creation of 3 main types of applications. Native apps, web-based mobile apps, and hybrid apps.
What are the differences between native, hybrid, and web applications?
The simplest way to describe the difference between…
The Torque Tool Controller project catches the results of tightening from a tool controller for future analysis and it is developed in Delphi. According to the developer, “This is my prototype to verify torque / angle traceability connected with tool controller. I have been working with this project with Delphi 7.” The application appears to be running on some specialized equipment and…
RAD Studio 10.4.2 supports silent, automated installation of the product with no UI interaction. Silent Install is available for offline and online installation. In the offline installation there is a GOF file and the setup executable. In the online installation there is a…
Uzbek Crosswords is a crosswords puzzle app built in Delphi Berlin 10.1. According to the developer, “Uzbek crossword puzzles are very interesting and very easy to use. There is also an assistance system. This is our first Uzbek program. We think our users will like it…
We have been exploring shader programming in Delphi FireMonkey. In thefirst post, we have learned the fundamentals of computer graphics and prepared the development environment. And created a simple demo application that just renders every pixel using a blue color.
So,in the second tutorial, we have applied a custom color to the GPU shader. And made several additions to the main…
