Mitov Software releases the latest video – audio components for Delphi as well as other platforms

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Mitov software has a huge library that consists of video components that you can insert into your application for the end user. Viewing the latest seminar you can view it by clicking here. The products or libraries are reasonably priced for a small or large software house.    View the video to see whether this fits into your development and let Mitov know you saw this on Baron Software. Mitov Software provides you:  Acquire and process digital signals (DSP)  Develop powerful displays for complex signals  Capture, analyze and transform audio & video  Detect objects and track targets in video  Build classifiers and AI applications  Assemble gauges and meters for monitoring & control  Visual logic decision making  Timeline driven events & animation Component libraries come in 3 versions a VCL -…
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Delphi Tip if you get “unit vcl.filectrl is specific to a platform” warning

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The warning "unit vcl.filectrl is specific to a platform" is Delphi's way of giving you heads up that the addition of one of the few components such as TDRIVECOMBOBOX will not work on other platforms besides a Windows environment. To remove this type of warning during the application build cycle just do the following in your code: unit uDashboard; interface {$WARN UNIT_PLATFORM OFF} This will remove the warning message and not destroy the application integrity. The lab found that by placing it under the interface section the warning went away but if you place it under the implementation as displayed below the warning was still seen. It does make sense to place prior to the uses clause since the compiler will first see that you want to turn off the…
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Memories of Turbo Pascal

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Working with Turbo Pascal back in the early 80's was so much fun that a robust application for DOS could be generated and used by various folks.   The compiler was fast and the language was simple to learn.  The original package was a solid manual as well as the famous diskettes.  Once installed the world was open to generate a single executable that could be used on any DOS machine. At that time I was developing a package for OSHA using DBASE III which was another great product, simple to use and affordable database manager.  I needed to get a dynamic editor inserted so that the DBASE application could shell out to execute it and allow the end user to write documents which were stored in the DBASE database.  It…
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The Tomes of Delphi Algorithms and Data Structures by Julian Bucknall

Book Reviews, Rad Studio Delphi Development
The Tomes of Delphi Algorithms and Data Structures by Julian Bucknall has been revised and is currently selling on lulu.com. Bucknall is the chief technology officer at Devexpress which writes software for Delphi and Microsoft Visual Studio. It does seem that Devexpress is heavily moving towards the Visual Studio product line and will not put too much into the Delphi VCL product line. Their products are very well written but the cost to the development is extremely high where you can begin to spend about $900 for the low end or as high as $2200 for the yearly subscription. Their competition in the Delphi world is TMS Software and that is something Bucknall does not want to speak about since TMS is about 2/3 lower in cost and the components…
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Delphi Developers Day 2015 Meet Up

Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Events
During the Chicago Delphi Developer day on April 13th, Embarcadero is having their night time meeting to go over neat new devices as well as getting fed. Last time in Baltimore you were able to see various new techie toys like Google Glass, a brain scanner that could move devices by impulse and other stuff. If you are going to the Chicago event you can register at http://forms.embarcadero.com/2015DelphiDeveloperDaysMeetup?cid=701G0000000tKU2 Register for Delphi Developers Day 2015 at http://www.delphideveloperdays.com/
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