Story Category: windows
VOTEAutomate Word document print using Delphi
FPiette
Automating Microsoft office Word from Delphi is really easy. I already blogged on the subject. This time, I will show you how to select a specific printer in your Delphi application and instruct Word to… … Read more
11 years ago in Automation, Delphi, Embarcadero, microsoft, Office, programming, windows, Word
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3D animation with FireMonkey
FPiette
Paul Toth, a well known Delphi Developer rewrote his CubeMan3D with FireMonkey, making it a cross platform application. The application shows an animated man made of 3D cubes. The man walk in place and turn… … Read more
11 years ago in android, Delphi, FireMonkey, FMX, Mobile, Mobile Development, windows, XE5
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Embedding and playing Sound/Music in a Delphi Application
Francesca Gaillard
Or The new old stuff… We had to make the application play specific sounds as a status indicator that doesn’t require the user to look at the screen. To avoid external dependencies, the idea is… … Read more
12 years ago in Delphi, IDE, Resources, Sounds, UI, User Interface, vcl, windows
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How to run an application under active session account from a Windows service using Delphi
Jordi Corbilla
To run an application from a service impersonating an user account, first we need to install “JEDI API Library & Security Code Library” as it contains different interesting OS callings which are really useful in… … Read more
13 years ago in API Windows, Delphi, delphi 2010, Delphi XE, JEDI, Services, windows
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Use ADPlus to troubleshoot hangs and crashes in our Delphi applications
Jordi Corbilla
It’s again debugging time and in this post I’m going to put forward how to use ADPlus to troubleshoot hangs or crashes of our Delphi applications. As I’m sure you know, applications are getting more and… … Read more
13 years ago in Debug, Delphi, delphi 2010, Delphi XE, windows
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A little bit of zis, etc. #2
Francesca Gaillard
I know, I’ve been not very much of a blogger lately… Delphi XE2 is announced and it surely looks like a very interesting release (and probably with some nasty bugs as well, we’ll see)… I… … Read more
13 years ago in A little bit of zis, Conference, Delphi, Motorcycle, tiobe, UI, Uncategorized, User Interface, windows
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The Unfortunate Effect of WM_SETREDRAW
Francesca Gaillard
… or why simply replacing LockWindowUpdate by WM_SETREDRAW is not that straightforward. As you know, when you want to avoid flickering or multiple partial redraws of your Forms, during a flurry of updates for instance,… … Read more
14 years ago in Bug, Delphi, LockWindowUpdate, User Interface, windows
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Android sells better than Windows to consumers
Unknown
If you combine a few news articles, things get interesting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/nov/29/apple-ipad-cannibalising-pc-sales “Gartner forecasts that worldwide PC shipments for 2011 will reach 409m units” = 1.1 million per day. It is… … Read more
14 years ago in android, google, windows
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French Delphi Speech Session Downloadable
Francesca Gaillard
The zip of my CodeWay 4 session (in French) is now available for download here. FYI, the old CodeRage 4 session (in English) is also available from Embarcadero: “Speech Enabling Delphi Applications (zip)” … Read more
14 years ago in CodeWay, ComCtrls, Conference, Delphi, RichEdit, Speech, User Interface, vcl, windows
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Sandboxed vs. Trust, sandboxing wins
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One of the most basic principles on Windows, in order to prevent malware, is that you trust your software provider. There are many trust mechanisms, including driver signing, website signing, remembering whether a file was… … Read more
15 years ago in android, iphone, javascript, native code, sandbox, web, windows
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