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 of RTL functions to do the same), and I’ve used it previously to create my own unicode text buffer and stream…
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…
Author: Craig Chapman
Here’s a littleDéjà vu for regular readers of my blog.
One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning.
“I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or…
Author: Craig Chapman
One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning.
“I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.”
This seemed like a fun challenge, so I thought I’d write a helper class to solve it..
The Problem
Ultimately, what determines if an image or video conforms to PAL or NTSC is a combination…
Author: Craig Chapman
Back in November for CodeRage-12, I demonstrated a partial translation of the Xlib headers for X11. At that time I explained that I’d not completed the headers, but would notify on my blog when I had.
Well, I’ve just done a major update to those…
Author: Craig Chapman
I decided to write an app to celebrate Delphi’s 23rd birthday and valentines day.
Happy Birthday my beloved Delphi!
(Best Viewed Full Screen, Source and binary downloads…
Author: Craig Chapman
I never really thought of my keyboard as an important accessory, but rather, as that essential item that you buy for the cheapest price possible and be done with. I mean, a keyboard is a keyboard right? Well, I discovered that your choice of keyboard…
