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Originally shared by Christian-W. Budde Micro controller development with Pascal (Smart Mobile Studio) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nj2V2XBdG1g&feature=autoshare

Just wondering...  anyone here actually developing for Android? With anything? And if so, what device have you chosen to use as a test piece?

The company I'm working for is looking for another Senior Delphi Developer willing to relocate to Cincinnati.  We'll be using Delphi XE4 shortly.  Currently we use Delphi 7. but on the verge of XE4.  We'll also be doing some ASP.Net C# development and mobile app development.

I am looking for components which will allow me to have HTML source editing in one edit box and WYSIWYG RTF content in another, such that I can edit in either, and it will update the other. IOW, the RichEdit control will contain a formatted document, and the syntax editor with HTML will contain (X)HTML which represents that formatted content. SynEdit could be the editor for HTML, and JvRichEdit could serve for the formatted document. What I am missing--or what I have not yet figured out how to do with the supplemental components for those controls is how to do the translation between the two formats.

Blog post "Delphi Brings ARC to Android" at http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_arc_android.html http://blog.marcocantu.com/blog/delphi_arc_android.html

Same procedure each year. Get newest GNOSTICE Components: Nothing works anymore.. :-( I don't know. All ohter components we use can be updated without one problem. Except gnostice...

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Missing in action: generic free functions. Why oh why can't I have such nice things in Delphi? One thing I miss from C++ is dynamic_cast . This is easily implementable in Delphi using generics, but I can't make it a free function, and instead have to use some fugly syntax... :(

i need someone who is expert in Delphi to customize a software to add some new task into it .

So, we recently updated to XE3 at work (began transition before XE4)... and today one of our customers ran across this code-gen bug, which causes an AV due to nil pointer access. Took some time to find it since we of course mostly run Debug builds on our dev machines, so couldn't reproduce the AV right away. {$O+} procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var   lValue: string; begin   lValue:='X';   if not cds1.IsEmpty and (lValue='D') then   //if (lValue='D') and not cds1.IsEmpty then  //     cds1.Delete   else if not cds1.IsEmpty then     cds1.Edit   else     cds1.Append; end; "cds1" here is a TClientDataSet with a single field. It crashes on the Edit or Append. Disabling optimizations works, as does rearranging the "and" expression. Wonder how this slipped past unit testing.

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Yay BSOD, interestingly Google goggles recognised the image as a product, I guess Microsoft has upgraded it from a feature.

Is possible develop windows 8 RT apps with Delphi XE 4 ?

HTML Editor Delphi XE3 I'm looking for an HTML editor for delphi vcl XE3. In Delphi 7 I used the component ProfDHTMLEdit however it was discontinued. Any suggestions? thank you

Anybody used this JSON library? How about the stability?  It allows accessing json properties using the dotted notion, it's very similar to using literal object in JavaScript, as shown bellow, it's a very convenient and concise syntax, IMHO, thus attractive to me and want to use it. procedure DoFromScratch; var   j, a : TJSONObject; begin   // Create a new empty JSON object.   j := NewJSONObject;   // Start assigning properties.  Properties that don't already exist are   // automatically added when assigned.   j.x := 50;   j.text := 'This is my message';   // Arrays must be assigned using Variant Arrays   j.buttons := VarArrayOf(['Ok','Cancel']);   // Object properties can be automatically created by simply accessing it   // and assigning required properties   j.User.FirstName := 'Fred';   j.User.LastName := 'Willard';   // The JSON object can be converted to a JSON string with the AsJSON method.   WriteLn(j.AsJSON); end; https://code...

I am using TRichEdit in several places in an app. Now I am being asked to support inline images. From what I have seen on StackOverflow, it may be possible, if I go deep diving in OLE. Does anyone know of a solution which is less like a science project? I need it for XE.

Any good automated build for #delphi applications with both mssql and oracle script integration? Something that will send email on status of build (success,fail,errors) and other information

Hope this is appropriate, but I wanted to share some details of a customer win we've had in Japan. We did a case study on their Windows version awhile ago, but this is about how they took it to iPad.   http://www.embarcadero.com/press-releases/hitachi-medical-computer-systems-selects-embarcadero-delphi-xe4-to-deliver-ipad-a-windows-app-for-dental-clinics

Im working on next kbmMW version. It will include a new sophisticated authorization framework, which allow for defining actors (users), roles, and resources (real and virtual) and resource groups.  Authorizations are then granted or denied for an actor and/or a role on a resource. Constraints can be defined on an authorization (grant or deny) which for example limits the authorization to a specific day or time or range, communication via a specific transport or only from specific client nodes etc. Custom constraints can be defined. Resources, roles and actors can be defined within code, or a database or from other external resources, of which an XML storage is directly supported. And the best of it all, is that its dead easy to use and integrates directly with kbmMWs existing token based authorization scheme. Further it supports defining internal users, which can not be used for logging on from an external client, and its also supported assuming another user identity within the busines...

Found out why ADO did not return results anymore:  http://andremussche.blogspot.nl/2013/08/ado-bug-do-not-use-comments-in.html

Perfect. Good job :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afvai7q2Uqk

I'm looking for some contractual work that can be done remotely, with progress reports either made by email or via some online IM. Please drop me a message if you know someone who needs to outsource some work.

We are looking for a Delphi Developer in Raleigh, NC.  Search for Dairy Records Management Systems in the Jobs site for NC State University. -Tom Hansen 8/21/2013

Just found out the reason for a very weird ADO bug: after some time our software (middle tier service) returned no records anymore. No errors, it executed the queries but just no results. After adding some debug code to read the recordcount (select * from ( )) I got an ADO error:  "Either BOF or EOF is True, or the current record has been deleted; the operation requested by the application requires a current record." What? Recordsaffected was > 0 so it had results, but I could not read the results? Seems this was fixed back in 1999? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/230101/nl After moving our printing stuff in a different sub process (separate sandbox so main BO stuff would still work if printing would corrupt something) the main service kept working OK but then we got "record not found" errors in our printing process!  Finally, after a lot of logging (SQL Server Profiler) and debugging and trial and error I could reproduce the problem... Solution: do NOT use ...

How can we integrate a value of DateTimePicker or Edit into a FastReport report?

http://www.malcolmgroves.com/blog/?p=1427 http://www.malcolmgroves.com/blog/?p=1427

I just learned that Embarcadero Technologies didn't want us to do a talk about Smart Mobile Studio during the upcoming Dutch PasCon event.  Something about a "competing product".    Seriously!  EMB doesn't even have a client-side web-dev tool in their portfolio!  IMHO, SmartMS is just another tool in the Object Pascal toolbox.  It fills an empty gap, and it is definitely not a threat to Delphi.  It's a win-win combination. But that makes me wonder: How do you see Smart Mobile Studio in the landscape of Pascal tools? Is it a bastard and a threat to Delphi?  Should EMB sweep the table and make a JavaScript compiler themselves?  Should we pick up the battle and go "all in" for a Smart LLVM solution? I believe that more tools and more options will generate more users and a better community.  In fact, that was one of the main reasons for us to create Smart - to contribute to the Delphi community...

This morning, out of the blue, RAD Studio XE will not load. The splash screen appears, and a few modules load, but then all activity apparently ceases. I have two questions: 1. For the immediate issue, does anyone have any suggestions? I have not encountered this before. 2. Since I also recently went through the insanity of the Windows Installer not being able to install or uninstall, short of reformatting and starting over, any suggestions? Is there a PC tune-up utility anyone has found effective?