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Creating a Linux Daemon (service) in Delphi.

Author: Craig Chapman With the introduction of the Linux target for Delphi, a wide range of possibilities are opened up to Delphi developers, to create Linux server applications. Unfortunately there are currently a limited number of project types available from the RAD Studio IDE, and those do not include creating a service (or Daemon as it’s called in the Linux world). In this post I’ll…
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Preparing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS for Linux Development with Upcoming Delphi 10.2 - Part 2

Author: Dean C7173 Last week, in the Part 1 of this blog post we have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server-edition into a VMWare Fusion virtual machine running on Mac. Now we are going to complete the configuration of the Ubuntu server, install all the prerequisites for deploying the Delphi application, and deploy “Hello World” Delphi app using the latest Delphi 10.2 Tokyo beta, as the…
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Using Delphi, from Excel to JSON, then FireDAC[JAPAN]

Author: John D7279 //// class function ExcelToJson(cells: TRect; excel_filename, sheet_name: String):TJSONObject; It is a code for excel to JSON. //// class function TExcelToFireDAC.ExcelToJson(cells: TRect; excel_filename, sheet_name: String): TJSONObject; const def_excel_application = 'Excel.Application'; var jres: TJSONObject; jline: TJSONObject; ExcelApp…
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Multi-Device Apps and Clipboard Support

Author: Marko Von Richards We have a lot of great demos to help you get started with RAD Studio. Today’s blog post focuses on our CopyPaste FireMonkey demo. The CopyPaste sample demonstrates how to create applications that use the system’s clipboard to copy and…
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Task-Bar Icons in Delphi

Author: smn Under Windows 7, the familiar task bar underwent something of an overhaul. Tasks which once represented the title bar of an application were replaced with icons, each of which supports application previews, progress indicators, and overlay icons to provide…
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Add Windows Media Player to your Delphi Applications.

Author: Ian S61845 Delphi ships with a component ‘TMediaPlayer’ for playing media files such as video and audio. This component remains in Delphi for the sake of compatibility with older versions, but is quite out-dated and, due to a decreasing number of compatible codecs, it is becoming difficult to maintain. There is however an alternative component for Windows, the Microsoft Windows Media…
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