Andy's Blog and Tools: How to install JCL and JVCL for XE4
As the JCL and JVCL transition from Sourceforge to GitHub isn’t finished yet (JCL already on GitHub, JVCL still on Sourceforge) you have to do some extra work to get a working XE4 version. There is no...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Every once in a while an AV in Delphi manifests itself in a very odd way.Usually it is refactoring, code completion or any of the ‘insight’ features doing odd things.This time, it got me into a Product...
View ArticlePARMAJA: New slogan for some open source projects
1- Keep the code as it. 2- Your patch is welcome, but maybe we will not accept it 3- Send your patch, and bless for it. 4- If you hate it dont use it. 5- Write once, Compile any where, is it work?
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The road to Delphi: Hosting Preview Handlers in Delphi VCL Applications
In this post i will show you, how you can host an existing Preview Handler in your Delphi VCL App. Preview handlers are a lightweight and read-only preview of a file contents that are bound to a the...
View ArticleBehind the connection: DWScript: OpenSource scripting engine for Delphi
Delphi Web Script (DWScript) is an OpenSource object-oriented scripting engine for Delphi based on Delphi language. Contrary to what its name suggest, DWScript is more of a general scripting engine...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Wow, I didn’t know that IBM had their own DOS based Pascal compiler for the PC in 1981, but they did, and BitSavers just uploaded their manualIBM_Pascal_Compiler_Aug81.pdfEdit: document moved from...
View Articlejed-software.com: XE Plus Pack Release 12 (XE4 Support)
Release 12 of XE Plus Pack is now available for download which includes XE4 support.Users can download the required version from the download page.To try XE4 Plus Pack download the trial version.Users...
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Firebird News: Windows Azure Web Sites and Firebird
Jiří Činčura wrote about his experience with Firebird Embedded and Azure Websites To sum up. Firebird Embedded works well in Windows Azure Websites. If you need fully featured SQL database for zero...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
In pre-Galileo versions of Delphi it was easy to run a .BAT or .CMD file as a main project file: just press F9.Thanks to iManBiglary for posting how to do this in modern Delphi versions....
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The road to Delphi: Enabling XPath (selectNode, selectNodes) methods in Vcl...
The TXMLDocument class allow you to manipulate XML files in VCL and FireMonkey Apps, but this class doesn’t implements a direct way to call the XPath related methods (selectNode, selectNodes) , so you...
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Firebird News: Advanced Data Generator 3 released
Upscene Productions announces the release of: “Advanced Data Generator 3″ A fast test-data generator tool that comes with a library of real-life data, can generate data to your database, SQL script or...
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DelphiTools.info: Performance issue in NextGen ARC model
Weak references and their zeroing is managed in Delphi NextGen through a global hash table, with a global lock, see Arnaud Bouchez take on it: Performance-issue-in-NextGen-ARC-model Also apart from the...
View ArticleIt's a blong, blong, blong road...: Delphi for iOS - some notes
The typical current requirements of the customers I work with, so they tell me, are to stick with Windows + VCL thanks to the long-term projects they have ongoing. Because of this I’ve not really spent...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript showcase: Graphics32 interactive demo
Graphics32 is a rich, high-performance 32bits graphics library for Delphi, with extensive capability. This showcase was submitted by Christian-W Budde, who is an active contributor to the Graphics32...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: I have split away from the sourceforge TComPort project...
One component I have depended on for serial port programming over the years is TComPort, originally by Dejan Crnila.My own private fork of it is located on BitBucket now. Known issues with my last...
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Firebird News: ADO.NET provider for Firebird with Entity Framework 6 support...
ADO.NET provider for Firebird with Entity Framework 6 support preview
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Delphi Haven: TMS releases iCL native iOS control toolkit for XE4
Now this looks interesting – TMS have just released iCL, a native iOS control toolkit for Delphi XE4 (link). Given I’ve only just seen the news I don’t have much more to say, however it definitely...
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The road to Delphi: Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi...
In the following article you can learn how to use the sysctl, sysctlbyname and sysctlnametomib functions to get system information (kernel values, hardware, networking, file system, machine specific...
View ArticleDelphi Code Monkey: The most awesome thing about Delphi is that it is not C++.
Recently, I was trying to debug some code on my weekend spare time, to help out a former employer who needs a bug fixed in a C++ application. I removed an ad-hoc shared memory implementation...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Installing ICS for FireMonkey in Delphi XE4
Arno Garrels recorded a tutorial video showing the installation steps required to make ICS v8 works with FireMonkey in Delphi XE4. Full resolution video here (70 MB, zipped) Download ICS Follow me on...
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