While I was in Tokyo for the Tokyo launch I worked with the Embarcadero office there to make a new BCI demo video. This is using the Emotiv EPOC wireless EEG headset to read cognitive thought patterns, which are transmitted wirelessly to the laptop and the Delphi powered application. It responds by sending the commands to the Parrot AR.Drone based on the thought patterns. I developed components…
CodeGuard is a tool for runtime error checking in a C++ application, and catches memory leaks, invalid handles, invalid memory use (such as writing past the end of a buffer), pointer validation, accessing freed memory and resources, and more. If you’ve never used it…
Author: Seva Leonov
Learning tasks and motivation
When teaching programming skills, especially with C++, one of the main issue is the selection of right examples and tasks. C++ is not that easy both in syntax, and concepts, and sostudents are demotivated just by the…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
I have just recently discovered a super easy way of adding custom icons to Delphi components. Traditionally you had to start from a rectangular bitmap of a specific size and color depth and then use Image Editor. This is documented in many places including Stackoverflow.
After a little bit of googling I have come across another Stackoverflow post that inspired my to give…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at.
Author: Pawe Gowacki
My “Expert Delphi” book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi.The book is about how to become developer…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer Mode First.
Enabling ADB Debugging
https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html#setup
First you have to allow ADB through the firewall. Go to crosh ([CTRL][ALT][T]) and drop to shell. You may need to setup a password via VT-2 first. I set one up when I first did this, but now reading things I…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
Chromebook Developer Mode
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer mode, which wipes the local storage, so you are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Also keep in mind it may void your…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the…
Google’s Chrome OS is based on their Chrome Browser and runs on Chromebooks, which are hybrids of a tablet and a laptop. They are designed with the assumption that the majority of what we do nowadays is done through the browser. Google announced a while ago that they would begin adding support for the Google Play Store to Chrome OS, allowing you to run Android apps on a Chromebook. The…
