Delphi 10.2 Tokyo ships with a massive amount of FireMonkey components for cross platform development on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows. However, there is always room for more custom components to be built to get your app done that much faster. Additionally, once you start deploying your app or it starts getting large you may want to start optimizing some of the functionality. There are quite a…
C-To-Delphi Converter Tool Can Quickly And Easily Help You Convert Standard C Code To Delphi
November 11, 2017
Developer Wouter Van Nifterick has a C-To-Delphi converter tool available over on GitHub under an MIT open source license. The tool contains a split view where you can write standard C code on the left side of the split view and it will show you translated code in Object…
Six Easy Ways To Embed JavaScript Engines In Your Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Apps
November 11, 2017
JavaScript is a useful scripting language which you can incorporate within your Delphi 10.2 Tokyo apps in a number of ways. There are open source, commercial component sets, and libraries which quickly allow you to do this in Delphi. These include JSEngine, ScriptGate…
When programming is pure fun: creating mazes - at CodeRage
November 5, 2017
CodeRage XII is this week! (Nov 7-9.) And I have something very cool to show in one session,a weekend project that has been pure fun to write, reminding me of the days when I was a teenager learning to code and writing just because I enjoyed it.
I’m generating mazes. Here’s a screenshot:
The codecan solve them, too. Here the target is from the…
My CodeRage Sessions next week
November 3, 2017
CodeRage is next week. Have you signed up yet?
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I will be presenting two different sessions:
Session 1: RAD Studio Product Address
Speaker: Sarina DuPont, Marco Cantu, David Millington
When: Tue, 7-Nov from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Level: All (General information…
Project modernization plan
October 31, 2017
Author: Bogdan Polak BSC
DataSet and User Interface
In the last blog post, I discussed how badly for the project is dividing one transaction between multiple events. This scenario is very common in most of the VCL projects and with time it causes huge difficulties with…
Learning JavaScript
October 29, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki
My favorite programming language is Object Pascal. Period. However it is not the only programming language in the world. Probably my very first was Basic on ZX Spectrum, then came Turbo Pascal on DOS and quickly changed to Delphi and Object Pascal. Over the course of the years, I have been influenced by other languages. When joining Borland, I had to got certified with Java.
What is my IP address?
October 20, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki
There are many situation when it would handy to know the IP address of a device where our app is running. Maybe you want to identify who is running your app? By IP address it is also possible to calculate the approximate location of a device. If you…
New "Delphi Memory Management" book is a hit!
October 6, 2017
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Yesterday evening I have found an excellent Delphi book I have been always waiting for!
The full title of the book is “Delphi Memory Management for Classic and ARC Compilers” and it is written by Dalija Prasnikar. The book is available…