Broken Games is a small, ambitious independent game development company based in Berlin, Germany. Their flagship game, Rise of Legions, is a multiplayer RPG available for the Windows platform. Co-founders Tobias and Martin focus on bringing people together through game playing with games that easily accessible to new gamers but provide sufficient challenges and depth for hardcore audiences. When…
Building a C++ VCL Customer/Sales Master/Detail/Charting Application with 1 Line of Code
October 22, 2020
You may have read or heard about No Code and Low Code application development using systems, languages and run times. Atanas Popov, GM of Embarcadero Technology, recently blogged about low code development. “These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research…
Developer Nader Shallabi has a project over on GitHub called Sysmon Tools. Sysmon Tools consists of Sysmon View, Sysmon Shell, and Sysmon Box. Sysmon View is an off-line Sysmon log visualization tool. According to Microsoft Sysmon or System Monitor is a “Windows system…
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 mobile social network built in Delphi FireMonkey . Available in both the Android and iOS app stores, it exemplifies what FireMonkey is capable of. KisKis is free to download and use, but they do advertise a premium service. KisKis runs at 60 frames per second on…
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…
