A smart phone is potentially packed with sensors and Delphi claims to provide cross platform access to those sensors. I have been examining the possibilities and publishing some code however I now concede it will never be a killer app.
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A Database of the Australian Federal Parliamentary Members
It is one of the great things about Delphi that you are able to keep enhancing and reusing the same code base so my latest project builds on many years of software development. I had an obsession with the engineering and science representation with our parliament and thought I would use Delphi to analyse the CVs of our MPs and publish the results.
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Playing with Colors Bitmaps and Textures in Delphi
I have been exploring Textures in Delphi 3D and this required an understanding of colors and at a later time will require the construction of very specific Bitmaps modeled on the one used by Anders Ohisson in his Maths Function Demo. Here I discuss two simple demo projects and a library of functions for creating bitmaps and textures in Delphi for Delphi. Continue reading “Playing with Colors Bitmaps and Textures in Delphi”
Innova Solutions Object DB Now Supports Mobile
Finally I have Innova Object DCUs for all platforms. I have been able to test on Android and the iOS Simulator. DCUs for other iOS platforms are provided but as yet are not tested. These are available for both Berlin and Seattle versions.
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Innova Solutions Object Database – Delphi DCUs
Delphi as a product provides easy integration with various relational databases for storing your data but there are other alternatives.
Innova Solutions generally chooses not to use a standard relational database but persists business objects in an “Object” database implementation.
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Under “AutoRefCount” Pointers, Records and Integers clash with “Object” Properties
Integers Stored in a components “Objects” field and the use of Dynamic Records, ClassReferences and Pointers enables developers to extend components beyond the “Data Aware” mindset of basic Delphi. These original building blocks of the Pascal Language became to be considered “Unsafe” tricks and porting such code to the latest “NextGen” compiler environment becomes problematic.
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DUnit on an Android Device
Delphi for Mobiles comes with a new compiler. To port existing code confidently to that platform it is good if you can just rerun your original unit tests. This has been achieved by converting the single DUnit form from VCL to FireMonkey
Delphi Multiplatform and The New Compiler
I was excited when Delphi introduced FireMonkey and added the ability to cross compile and debug on Win64, Mac OS and mobile platforms. I saw it as an opportunity to leverage massive libraries into new environments. The foremost technology was my Object Database which was standard Delphi but originally used some Windows APIs for communications. Changing the communications to Indy was put on the TODO list and I purchased a Mac to get a Mac OS platform.
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