The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Some notes if I ever want to do something like this.In this case I worked around it by having the Items include different text (since I had object pointers in the TStrings anyway) so I could stick to...
View ArticleAndreano Lanusse | Technology and Software Development: Delphi XE4 official...
In general you expect a new version of Delphi around August, this year is going to be different, Delphi XE4 is coming next week.I just heard that next week Embarcadero is going to announce Delphi XE4,...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Link clearance, mostly centered around “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Ports” and “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS...
View Articlewhile true do;: Sneak peek to simple integration between DMVCFramework and DORM
This is a really simple (not optimized and dirty) integration between the upcoming DMVCFramework (WebBroker based MVC framework) and DORM, “the Delphi ORM”. This is the DMVCFramework controller with...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: Delphi XE4 pricing
It’s not exactly a ‘leak’ given it comes from an official promo video, albeit in Russian, but anyhow, the US pricing for Delphi XE4 has come out:See here (for some reason, the video couldn’t show on...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: XE4 Pricing Revealed
Chris Rolliston just posted a link to a video (from Russia) where-in the pricing for XE4 is revealed. All $ amounts mentioned in this article are US $ prices. Your local price may vary depending on how...
View ArticleCastle Game Engine news: Development: better Mac OS X support, networking,...
Hello everyone!There is a contest for best open-source project on Polish portal http://www.spinacz.edu.pl/. Please take a moment to vote for our Castle Game Engine!Our engine was submitted to...
View ArticleBehind the connection: TabOrder blues
In every Windows form, the user is allowed to use the tab key to cycle thru all controls on the form. When building a form, the developer can select the tab order to fit his needs. For example if the...
View ArticleDelphi Haven: XE4 documentation is up
Just noticed this:http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE4/en/What%27s_New_in_Delphi_and_C%2B%2BBuilder_XE4I don’t know whether someone has jumped the gun or not, but from a ‘conceptual overview’...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: Delphi Prism is dead, long live Oxygene.
I just learned that Rad Studio XE4 will not include the "Prism" (delphi compiler for .Net) product in the bundle anymore.I for one am not surprised. RemObject's delphi-flavored "Oxygene" language that...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Delphi for iOS (aka Delphi XE4 aka RAD...
We’ve heard lots of noises about Embo’s pending Delphi support for iOS over the last 6 months or more and now the wait is over.The iOS support has arrived, but not as the largely expected add-on to...
View ArticleAndreano Lanusse | Technology and Software Development: Whats new in Delphi XE4?
This time you didn’t have to way a full year to see a new Delphi release, 8 months after XE3 release Delphi XE4 is out.iOS development is the major topic of course and bring the second version of...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Serial Port Programming RS232 / RS485
Using the serial port is a common task and there are a huge number of components for doing that. I'm using TCiaComPort by Wilfried Mestdagh for years. It is a freeware with source code available at:...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: DPROJ Woes
I spent the best part of half a day last week trying to get to the bottom of a very strange issue on a project I was working on. I had just created a new unit in the project and had reached a point...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
You might think the below question on CodePage zero is Delphi related, but most of it is not.It is about CP_ACP (the currently Active CodePage, and has some interesting observations:It can vary accross...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: 52 – Marco Cantu & Delphi XE4 for iOS
The big news for Today, April 22nd, 2013 is the release of RAD Studio XE4 which includes the new Delphi for iOS. I thought it would be fitting to talk with Marco Cantu, long time Delphi author and...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delphi XE4 is available
With Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 you can create true native apps for PCs, tablets, and smartphones from a single code base, and get them to markets and users fast. True native apps run directly on the...
View ArticleThe Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
So I won’t forget, as the static in different languages varies in meaning:Static on class methods makes them assignment compatible with plain old function pointers.Thanks Moritz Beutel for initially...
View ArticleFirebird News: Database Workbench 4.4.0 released
Upscene Productions is proud to announce the next version of the popular multi-DBMS development tool: ” Database Workbench 4.4.0 Pro ” For more information, see here. This version includes small new...
View ArticleDelphiTools.info: Not in (interpreted) Kansas anymore
For a few weeks now, an experimental JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. A more detailed article into the hows and whats and WTFs will come later.Consider this article...
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