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Originally shared by David Berneda Big improvements in BIChart control. Support for design-time has been accomplished and its now much more smart in determining what data to choose and how should it be plotted, in a totally automatic way. Of course, every setting can be customized manually or by code. The automatic recognition so far is capable of: -Deciding if the data (tables, subtables, etc) can be plotted using a 3D style (surface, contour etc), Financial (candle), Geographic (world maps) or 2D (XY). -Based on the above, choose the "best" series class (Line, Bar, Point, etc etc) depending on many factors, like number of points, data range, etc. -Determine the best style orientation (horizontal or vertical) -Determine the best data direction (by rows or by columns) -Choose an "stacked" mode automatically (stack, 100%, overlap, self-stack etc) -Choose the "best" columns / fields to use for chart data and axis labels -For 3D, plot values as "XYZ...

Originally shared by Boian Mitov Yesterday discovered this cool podcast! The Niagara Falls Lighting powered by application written by Martin Searancke​ in Delphi​, and among other things some of the Mitov Software libraries :-) #Delphi #OpenWire http://delphi.org/2017/04/the-niagara-falls-lighting-episode/

Originally shared by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers This weekend, the Embarcadero web site was hacked by AnonCoders. Not once (see also G+ link and DelphiPraxis link and image) but at least twice (see also G+ link and image and Delphi Praxis link and image) where the initial hacked simple text “Hacked By… http://wiert.me/2016/03/14/delphi-disable-or-change-your-welcome-page-to-not-use-the-embarcadero-site-as-that-site-has-been-hacked-twice-this-weekend

Originally shared by David Berneda New feature in Dashboards !, templates can now include Layout definitions. These can be simple, or complex combinations by nesting layouts inside other layouts. Dashboards can then use these custom layouts for panel positioning (grids, charts, controls, etc), for both VCL / FMX and HTML web transparently. An example of a custom nested layout at the picture below: "name": "Special", "items": [ { "name": "top", "items": [ { "name": "0", "align": "top", "height": "50%" }, { "name": "1", "nested": "2x2" } ] }, { "name": "2", "align": "right", "width": "50%", "nested": "3 Rows" } ] When specifying size (width, height) as perce...

Originally shared by Boian Mitov VideoLab 7.7 is now available for download at http://www.mitov.com/products/videolab with support for Delphi 10 Seattle, and Visual Studio 2015!  VideoLab is a set of components, based on OpenWire for fast video capture, playback, broadcasting and processing. They allow fast complex video manipulations with zero lines of program code. VideoLab supports both the old fashion Win32 API (VFW), Audio ACM and DirectShow (DirectX), and even allows if needed any mixture of them. The developer can choose to go with any of them, to use both, or can switch from the one to the other at any moment. The components hide the complexity of both approaches, and make them look almost identical from the users prospective. The library is fully multithreaded, utilizes well modern multi-core systems, and runs at full native performance. VideoLab contains well over 100 components for: Video Capture - captures analog or digital video sources like FireWire (IEEE1394) cameras, D...

Originally shared by Boian Mitov New Steinhart Hart Component Visuino component built by Swellington Santos with the Visuino Delphi SDK :-) #Visuino #Delphi #Arduino

Originally shared by Gnostice.com Gnostice StarDocs On-Premises trial released. Gnostice is pleased to announce the availability of the beta trial of the Gnostice StarDocs On-Premises edition. You can now download the virtual appliance and host it on your virtualization platform on your private servers. StarDocs provides Web APIs to enable a variety of document processing and document viewing scenarios. StarDocs is available as a cloud-hosted API service and as a virtual appliance that you can deploy on-premises. To know more about StarDocs, please see this introductory article: http://www.gnostice.com/nl_article.asp?id=385 To download the On-Premises trial virtual appliance, please go here: http://www.gnostice.com/StarDocs.asp?show=trial You can also try StarDocs online at: https://demos.gnostice.com/demos/stardocsdemo/ We have also released the Delphi demo source and a Delphi EXE demo powered by StarDocs. You can download them here: http://www.gnostice.com/StarDocs.asp?show=doc StarD...

Originally shared by David Berneda TeeBI new Visualizer control in action. Just one line of code to set the Data to visualize, with automatic layout discovery and a lot of options to customize both by code or visually.

Originally shared by TRichView We have released updated versions of our rich text editing components. In this update, we completed UI translation to to following languages: Armenian, Belorussian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Finnish, French, Hindi, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese Brazilian, Portuguese European, Romanian, Swedish, Ukrainian. This update includes translation of new features added in 2016 and 2017: equation editor, bookmarks, spelling checking, alternate colors of table rows and columns, widow/orphan control. Also, we included SrvDxSkin in the installer: a component allowing using #ExpressSkins (by DevExpress) with ScaleRichView (WYSIWYG editing component). Our Setup installs it automatically, if ExpressSkins are already installed. Web site: http://www.trichview.com #trichview #vcl #components #delphi #embarcadero

Originally shared by Marc Hanisch (dubst3pp4) Interesting article by the creators of the Knights & Merchants remake about their choice using the Pascal programming language: http://www.kamremake.com/devblog/pascal-the-best-of-both-worlds/comment-page-1/

Originally shared by Boian Mitov Just posted by Jim McKeeth on the Embarcadero blog :-) #Delphi   #OpenWire    https://community.embarcadero.com/blogs/entry/mitov-software-s-intelligencelab-and-other-labpacks-now-support-linux

Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) Achim Kalwa, who has been steadily contributing to GExperts, submitted a patch that changes the sort order used by the “Sort Selected Lines” Expert in GExperts to use the natural sort order, similar to the way Windows Explorer sorts files. E.g. Assume you… http://blog.dummzeuch.de/2017/02/03/gexperts-sort-selected-lines-expert-now-uses-natural-sort-order/

Originally shared by TRichView We uploaded a new beta version of #RVMedia 5.3 #VCL components: http://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=9014 It is stable, but only for #Delphi and C++Builder (Lazarus and Linux compatibility is not restored yet). Main changes: - video and audio recording (using new TRVCamRecorder and TRVAudioPlayer components) with use of #FFmpeg - playing sounds on the specified audio device (TRVAudioPlayer components) - ability to have more than one video and audio sources in each client of TRVMediaServer - much better processing of sound received by TRVCamReceiver - support for new FFmpeg version - new video mode for TRVCamera: using user-supplied images as video frames Additional information about these and othere new features can be found in the help file.

Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) … you might not be used to anti-aliasing. Recent (#1) versions of TeeChart switched to GDI+ as their default drawing engine which also switched on anti-aliasing by default. The difference looks like this: It’s a matter of personal taste (and the use case)… http://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/08/31/if-your-lines-seem-too-thick-in-a-teechart/

Originally shared by Boian Mitov Just updated the free open source BMThread C++ Builder components to support 10 Seattle: http://www.mitov.com/free_downloads The component set allows you to easily add threads to your C++ Builder application, by simply dropping a thread component. The component also will generate the basic synchronization code for you. The pack also includes a thread progress update component that can be used to monitor and update the progress of different threads. http://www.mitov.com/free_downloads

Originally shared by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers I've updated https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Scripts/List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1 with: - Support 10.2 Tokyo - fix difference in CompanyName versus Registry-CompanyName - fix architecture for Delphi 8 - add DelphiVersion - ProjectVersion 18.1 is also used by Delphi 10 Seattle - add ReleaseDate - add BetaName The updated markdown table is at these places: - https://gist.github.com/jpluimers/b5891600b73642788b492393710c6070 - https://wiert.me/2016/09/06/delphi-version-info-table-need-help-with-these-projectversion-for-c-builder-delphi-2005-and-2006-dllsuffix-for-c-builder-appbuilder-1-13-codename/ anyone having the AppBuilder 1.13 codename? https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/commits/edb1cd21e133c9ef8f5d1601d5f1a6fdbba7da7c https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Scripts/List-Delphi-Installed-Packages.ps1

Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) The Set Tab Order expert in GExperts allows you to change the tab order of controls by dragging them in a tree view. I have always wondered why the standard Tab Order dialog of the IDE has got buttons to move the current control up or down while the one… http://blog.dummzeuch.de/2018/11/01/two-buttons-to-make-a-difference-in-the-set-tab-order-expert/

Originally shared by Lars Fosdal 2400 members and wishlist for 2014! In January, the Google+ Delphi Developers Community will have it's one year anniversary. With 2400 members, as well as 300+ members in the Delphi iOS & Android Community and the Delphi Component Directory, I really appreciate and enjoy the posts and discussions about my favorite tool!   As you know, in the Yule time it is not unusual to send off a wish list to Santa, so here are my wishes for Santa (David Intersimone) and the Code Elfs at Embarcadero for 2014.  Make 2014 a year for improving what exists! It has been said before, but I cannot help but repeat my burning desire for having the list of "old sins" significantly shortened, instead of even more new features. Many posts during 2013 has been about performance issues or missing implementations, and to mention some: Generics weirdness, threading related issues, efficiency of generated code, lack of newer Windows APIs, lack of ready made wrappers...

Originally shared by Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) As suggested by Johan Bontes and Daniela Osterhagen  there are now three more enhancements to the search path dialog: * Make Relative / Make Absolute make all the directories in the memo relative to the project file directory or absolute. * Add Recursive adds the directory in the edit control and all its subdirectories recursively to the memo. All three buttons are only visible when the memo is active. When the listbox is active, the standard buttons are visible instead.

Originally shared by TRichView We uploaded new versions of our rich text editing components, compatible with Embarcadero Technologies #Delphi 10.3 Rio: #TRichView 17.6 We plan to add support of new features of Delphi 10.3, so a new release is expected soon. Additional changes are made in our rich text reporting components ReportWorkshop 1.10: - new field types (minutes, seconds, mseconds) to represent integer values as time; - new report editor demo for #ElevateDB. The report editor allows building reports for any ElevateDB database, printing them, exporting to HTML, RTF and DocX. This is a freeware application that can be useful by itself.