These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research groups, such as Gartner, put the low-code application development platform market at ~$10M billion in 2019 and project CAGR to be greater than 20% from 2020 to 2027. In contrast, the market for developer tools has largely remained flat, and growth is estimated to be under 5% at best, largely driven by the wide proliferation of open…
KisKis is a social network on mobile devices built in Delphi FireMonkey. Available on both the Android and iOS app stores it really shows what is possible with FireMonkey. KisKis is free to install and they do advertise a premium service as well. KisKis works on both…
Easy Access to MS Access Databases with Delphi and C++ Builder Components
September 18, 2020
If you need to work with Microsoft Access databases in your application then you can use the Data Access Objects (DAO) library from WINSOFT:
Component list
The DAO library contains the following components: TDAODatabase, TDAODataSet, TDAOTable, TDAOQuery…
Human Interface Devices Communicator For Delphi/C++ Builder On Windows
September 10, 2020
Communicating with Human Interface Devices such as Alphanumeric display, Bar Code Reader, Sensors, Volume control on Speakers/Headsets becomes a primary use case for real-world applications. Do you spend more time in building libraries to communicate with HID for your Delphi/C++ and Lazarus Applications? WINSOFT Provides a powerful library to get the job done. It uses the standard Windows HID…
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…
A popular syntax highlighting editor for Delphi is called TSynEdit. This post is mainly focused on the various forks of TSynEdit and which one you might want to use in your own projects. The Dev C++ project uses TSynEdit which needed to be upgraded when it was lifted from…
The Origins Of Delphi R&D Recounted By Danny Thorpe, Original Delphi 1 Team Member
August 20, 2020
I ran across this post over on StackExchange where Danny Thorpe, one of the original Delphi 1 team members, recounts the effort that went into the research and development behind the creation of Delphi 1.
Enjoy!
“Delphi 1.0 was released Feb 14, 1995. By my (now somewhat foggy) recollection, research / experimentation that directly contributed to defining the Delphi visual development…
Data Abstract brings powerful and flexible multi-tier database access to Delphi. Abstract your client apps from differences between database types or structure. Enforce business logic and security in the middle tier.
On the server tier, you have full control over how…
Pascal Analyzer, orPALfor short, is a utility program that analyzes, documents, debugs, and helps you optimize your source code.
Pascal Analyzer makes a static code analysis. It only needs the source code, unlike other similar tools that perform an analysis of…
JetLua™ is a Lua SDK for Delphi to allow easy integration for Lua scripting inside your Delphi application.
Features
Made with/supports latest Delphi versionOnly two minimal interfaces to access feature set (IJetLua & IJetLuaContext)You can auto register class/object JetLua routinesIf you have created an AutoSetup class function, it’s automatically called during registration…
