Category: Rad Studio Delphi Development

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…

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…

Embarcadero has announced that it acquire Castalia for Delphi and Usertility from TwoDesk Software. Embarcadero will integrate the productivity features of Castalia into RAD Studio's integrated development environment (IDE) to enhance and optimize the coding experience for both Object Pascal and C++. RAD Studio will also feature Usertility, a powerful and easy to integrate service for monitoring app usage. This acquisition delivers on Embarcadero's commitment to developer productivity by enabling RAD Studio users to get integrated support for these great third-party solutions, which will be sold and supported by Embarcadero. Castalia provides the Rad Studio Delphi developer live syntax checking as well as other assorted IDE software tools. Usertility provides drop-in application usage analytics for software written in Delphi, where and how many active users, does the software crash, version…