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Optical Barcode Recognition (OBR) or Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has been utilized in many commercial applications. The fonts are electronically scanned and digitized into ASCI characters. Hand-held scanners also allow the user to have the ability to examine data, for instance, locating and reading the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) found on most published…
Secrets to Quickly and Efficiently Handle Zip Files on Android with Delphi, C++ Builder, and FireMonkey
September 3, 2020
To easily handle zip files in your FireMonkey project, use the Zip4j library for zip files or streams in Delphi and C++ Builder. Zip encryption, support for the Zip64 format, support for streams, support for both AES and Zip-Standard encryption methods, and many other…
Convert any Android API to Delphi and C++ Builder units to utilize in your FireMonkey Android Projects
September 2, 2020
Intro
When it comes to Cross-Platform application development frameworks, you get all the tools you need to create whatever you want. You can shape that framework and create new development tools for yourself by using or expanding the framework itself. Take the FireMonkey…
Intro
When you start building any project, you might end up creating functions to use in several points of your application. Maybe you develop a set of code snippets. Utilities are an important point of connection between your software and the device it runs on, but what if you didn’t have to create them yourself?
WinSoft offers a Utils library that gives you a bunch of functions to…
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…
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…
Benchmarking Memory Managers BigBrain 2020 vs. FastMM5
August 28, 2020
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 comprehensive blog post by the creator of BigBrain 2020 which compares performance between BigBrain 2020 and FastMM5 (and TC…
Super fast CSV files processing with WinSoft CSV Library
August 27, 2020
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…
JSONis a text-based data format following JavaScript object syntax, which was popularized byDouglas Crockford. Even though it closely resembles JavaScript object literal syntax, it can be used independently from JavaScript, and many programming environments feature the ability to read (parse) and generate JSON. JSON exists as a string, and is useful when you want to transmit data…