I’ve finally finished my copy of Marco Cantu’s Delphi 2007 Handbook, and you probably want to hear my review, so… This book covers the new Win32 features for Delphi 2007. It was published before the release of RAD Studio 2007 so it doesn’t cover any .Net or C++, to which most Delphi developers care little about anyway (although the ASP.Net stuff is looking pretty cool). It also gives you an overview of (more…)

INTEGRATED COMPILERS ARChITECT ENTERPRISE PROfESSIONAL Enhanced in 2010! High-performance 32-bit optimizing Delphi® native code compiler, including High performance x86 Assembler – 32-bit inline assembler supporting the Intel® x86 instruction set (including Intel Pentium® Pro, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Intel MMX,™ SIMD, Streaming SIMD Extensions, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, (more…)

INTEGRATED COMPILERS Ent Pro ENHANCED! High-performance 32-bit optimizing Delphi® native code compiler 9 9 32-bit inline assembler with support for the full Intel® x86 instruction set (including Intel Pentium® Pro, Pentium III, Pentium 4, Intel MMX, ™ SIMD, Streaming SIMD Extensions, SSE, SSE2, and SSE3, and AMD® 3DNow! ® 9 9 USE YOUR BDS2006 COMPONENTS! Compiler is compatible with binaries (more…)

Delphi is a high-level, compiled, strongly typed language that supports structured and object-oriented design. Based on Object Pascal, its benefits include easy-to-read code, quick compilation, and the use of multiple unit files for modular programming. Delphi has special features that support Borland’s component framework and RAD environment. For the most part, descriptions and examples in this language guide (more…)

Environment and Libraries First, we need to set up the proper environment and get the necessary files off the Phidgets website. Visit the drivers section at www.phidgets. com and get the latest: Phidget Framework •* You will need files installed with the Phidget Framework to program and use Phidgets. We also recommend that you download the following reference materials from the programming section: (more…)

In a visual programming tool such as Delphi, the role of the integrated development environment (IDE) is at times even more important than the programming language. Delphi 7 provides some interesting new features on top of the rich IDE of Delphi 6. This chapter examines these new features, as well as features added in other recent versions of Delphi. We’ll also discuss a few traditional Delphi (more…)

The Simple Object Access Protocol or SOAP ( SOAP 1.1 , 2003) has become a popular standard protocol for TCP/IP communications. Web services developed using SOAP allow intercommunication of different platforms and development tools. Hence, popular tools have integrated SOAP as one of the basic features. Delphi for one has a built-in SOAP feature for the development of both the service (more…)

In a visual programming tool such as Delphi, the role of the integrated development environment (IDE) is at times even more important than the programming language. Delphi 7 provides some interesting new features on top of the rich IDE of Delphi 6. This chapter examines these new features, as well as features added in other recent versions of Delphi. We’ll also discuss a few traditional Delphi features that (more…)

1)InstallPDF Creator Pilotlibrary on your computer and runDelphi. 2)First, you have to add PDF Creator Pilot library as a component to the component palette. Select “Project” | “Import Type Library” command as shown below: 3)Import dialog will appear. Find and selectPDF Creator Pilotin the libraries list and press “Install…”: Delphi will suggest you to install PDF Creator Pilot into the user component package (more…)

Environment and Libraries First, we need to set up the proper environment and get the necessary files off the Phidgets website. Visit the drivers section at www.phidgets.com and get the latest: Phidget Framework • You will need files installed with the Phidget Framework to program and use Phidgets. We also recommend that you download the following reference materials from the programming section: Examples (more…)