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Delphi Haven: A few XE5-related bits
With XE5 now out, I’ve updated my FMX TClipboard and Mac PDF writer code to compile with it, and in the case of the latter, also made an unrelated fix suggested by Sebastian Zierer. With respect to...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: A Backup Solution That Just Works
In a comment on my Shaggy Dog story yesterday commenter Iztok gently chastised me for not having backups of my VM’s. Ironically I did. The problem is that my backup strategy is so silently effective...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Delphi for (Some) Android
Embarcadero have blogged about the first Android app “in the wild” (actually, being on the Play store I think it’s the first domesticated app – wild ones surely get side-loaded ? ). Rather...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: Mobile Location on iOS and Android
Most Android and iOS devices either include a GPS antenna, the ability to triangulate off cellular or wireless access points, or some combination. Accessing the location is different when using the...
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Free Pascal Answers: My Story with Object Pascal language. Part one: Turbo...
Before the university I have studied BASIC language using my MSX 64 K Bytes Ram, 2.8 Z80 Computer. On that time cassette tapes were the only available storage media that I have. On this computer I have...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Learning Valuable Lessons
Iztok has been at it again, making comments that prompt another post. He expresses his view that there are only two viable options for mobile development. The first is essentially the web-based...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: iOS 6.x Now Required By FireMonkey in XE5
In XE4 FireMonkey supported iOS 5.1. According to the platform requirements for XE5 this has now increased to iOS 6. This something to be aware of. Even if your application could run on older, simpler...
View ArticleThe Podcast at Delphi.org: GExperts for XE5 Experimental Build
My good friend and Delphi MVP Jeroen Pluimers has just posted an experimental build of GExperts for XE5. He is working with Erik Berry to get an official build up on the GExperts site.GExperts is a...
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Delphi Haven: My FMX TClipboard and TMacPreferencesIniFile implementations...
A bit belatedly, but my FireMonkey TClipboard and TMacPreferencesIniFile/TApplePreferencesIniFile (*) implementations are now compiling with XE4 (thanks goes to Ken Schafer for prodding me in the case...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Anatomy of a Camera App
Part 1 in an as yet unknown number of articles using a (very) simple camera application to demonstrate building first class Android applications using “Pascal for Java” – i.e. Oxygene Cooper. In this...
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Castle Game Engine news: Development: great API for 2D games and UI, our...
Great news for Debian users: Castle Game Engine package is available inside official Debian repositories. Version 4.0.1 is already available in the testing release, and version 4.1.1 is in unstable (on...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: iOS 7 and arm64 Support in Oxygene
Marc Hoffman of RemObjects blogged over the weekend about the forthcoming iOS 7 and arm64 support in Oxygene. Actually, the only part that is really “coming” is the arm64 aspect since, as he explains...
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The road to Delphi: Tools and projects updated to support Delphi XE5
Quick post, I just added support for RAD Studio XE5 to the VCL Styles Utils project, Delphi IDE Theme Editor, WMI Delphi Code Creator and The Delphi Dev. Shell Tools.
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The road to Delphi: Delphi Dev. Shell Tools – New features 3
Features added to the new version of the Delphi Dev. Shell Tools.Full refactoring of the code related to drawing the items bitmaps and icons, now only 32 bpp bmp (Windows 8/7/Vista) and 32-bit with...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Exploring Listeners With Oxygene
Part 2 in a short series demonstrating the development of a simple camera app for Android using Oxygene. In the previous instalment we looked at the basic framework of our app. For this instalment I...
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DelphiTools.info: DWScript now supports Delphi XE5
DWScript SVN version will now compile and run under XE5. There is only one gotcha due to an XE5 regression. While running the DWScript test suite through XE 5 trial, and while most of DWScript ran okay...
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Žarko Gajić: SQLite: Referential Integrity With Full Text Search Virtual...
As a second step in my goal to implement full text search functionality in my Delphi application I had to create a sample SQLite database supporting FTS queries. Full text search models in databases...
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From Zero To One: Library and site updates
After being quiet for quite some time (but extremely busy), I am now posting updates about what is new in the “Cromis Library” and on the page itself.Page updatesIn the past I already worked with TRAC,...
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The Podcast at Delphi.org: Android Screen View
People have asked for a copy of the utility I wrote to view the attached Android device on the screen. It uses the built in screencap functionality of Android and the ADB (Android Debug Bridge) to grab...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Igor Ostrovsky wrote a few very nice MSDN magazine articles. Not all of them have ended up in the list at MSDN magazine, so here is a more complete list:C# – The C# Memory Model in Theory and Practice,...
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