27Aug 2019 by richard@baronsoftware.com

TrackPro Roadmap for 2019 to 2020

Rad Studio Delphi Development
The future of TrackPro is bright! Since Baron Software has acquired TrackPro the improvements have been moving along. So without delay for the current users of TrackPro the roadmap for 2019 to 2020 details what is on the horizon. TrackPro was born Developed by Al Weisenborn in 1998. TrackPro has evolved over time with the purpose of tracking instruments. TrackPro is a software solution that allows you to track and manage the status of recurrent activities such as calibrations, maintenance, and reminders. Improvements The coming improvements will increase the productivity. Some of the scheduled updates will be a SQL database version. Allowing large companies to have the necessary robust performance they need. Small companies can still use the current database and do not need to convert. Basically there will be…
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26Aug 2019 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How not to conduct support and sales!

News Items, Rad Studio Delphi Development, Software Events, Software Releases
During the summer months businesses tend to have smaller staffs due to vacations or working less hours to enjoy themselves. All businesses need to provide their staff with time off to prepare mentally and physically for the upcoming projects. Hopefully this not how to conduct support and sales. That being said it is understandable that companies may not get back to you within a timely fashion. Support team that does not know. Our first story starts with a support call. There was an issue that led to a component not working correctly. The email went to the support team with the issue described. What came back from the support team was strange. Apparently the person who wrote the software component was on a two week vacation. So the support staff…
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09Aug 2019 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How to remove blank address lines using Fast Reports.

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Fast Reports is an excellent reporting tool for Delphi programmers and there is a missing feature that was in SAP Crystal Reports. The property to remove a blank line in an address block. Fast Reports has grown over the last 2 versions making the reporting for Windows and Web one of the best software tools there is available. Usually the address block consists of a company name, contact person, address and the city, state or province and a zip code or postal code. Simple way to remove blank lines One simple method of checking whether the contact person exists or there is a blank line is the following code using Fast Reports version 6 for VCL: Insert a text object on the report page where you wish the address block…
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23May 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Mnuchin Urges Antitrust Probe of Tech After Google Report

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Mnuchin Urges Antitrust Probe of Tech After Google Report Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urged the Justice Department to review the power that large technology firms such as Google have over the American economy, the latest U.S. official to back antitrust scrutiny of the industry. A “60 Minutes” segment on Sunday devoted to assertions that Alphabet Inc.’s Google wields a destructive monopoly in online search hammered home the notion of the company’s dominance during a time of heightened public concern with technology giants. The report didn’t include new allegations about the company. “These issues deserve to be reviewed carefully,” Mnuchin said in a CNBC interview early Monday in response to a question about the CBS News report. “These are issues the Justice Department needs to look at seriously, not for any…
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31Mar 2018 by richard@baronsoftware.com

CommunityToolbar in Delphi creates problems

Rad Studio Delphi Development
CommunityToolbar in Delphi creates problems The CommunityToolbarXXX.BPL located in your C:\Program Files (x86)\Embarcadero\Studio\XX.0\Bin creates problems for the IDE in the long run.  Apparently you can get an access violation when closing the IDE or if you click on tools\options followed by Ok you can get a script error using Tokyo.  The XXX is the version number located in the BIN folder.  For Berlin it was 240 and for Tokyo it was 250. Embarcadero intended good things to happen using the community toolbar but once again the QA department has failed to capture a bad bug. Something of this nature should never happen during the testing phase when the product is about to be released but lately it has happened alot. To rid the problem all you have to do is…
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