Description

This guide intends to help you getting your Windows applications ready for ultra-high resolution ("4K") displays. It will explain the challenge and tell you how to master it.

It covers all topics from Delphi's UI scaling on systems with "large fonts" to per-monitor DPI-awareness on Windows 8.1:

• Dots per Inch explained
• Windows and DPI, Delphi and DPI
• Testing high resolutions
• DPI virtualization in Windows
• Windows 8.1 multi-montor DPI scaling
• Declaring DPI-awareness in Delphi
• Flipping DPI at runtime on Windows 8.1.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 9 877kB

Platforms: DXE, DXE2, DXE3, DXE4, DXE5, DXE6, DXE7, DXE8

Description

This comprehensive tutorial covers all aspects of integrating a help file into a Delphi application.

Learn, how to:

• Display the table of contents, the index and find tab from your application
• Work with help commands and macros
• Brush up your application with context sensitive help
• Implement What's This? popup help
• Accomplish contextual help with keywords (like the Delphi code editor)
• Component help files seamlessly integrated into Delphis online help
• And much more...

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Exe demo: included
• Size: 541kB

Platforms: CB5, CB6, D2005, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

"I always need to have a "Persistent Data Store" file, so I finally decided to write one using ZIP files. This article details exactly what I did to use Turbo Power's Abbrevia as a Virtual Data Store, using one single file to store all program data. I tried to publish this to the BDN, but they never answering my emails."

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 22kB

Platforms: D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

April 2011 issue of Blaise Pascal Magazine (in Russian).

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 25 567kB

Platforms: D1, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE

Description

Free issue of Blaise Pascal Magazine (in English).

84 pages about Delphi, Delphi Prism, Lazarus, Free Pascal, Pascal and related languages:

• Mini Course SQL
• Delphi JSON Viewer
• Lazarus ready for writing commercial applications?
• NexusDB exceptionaly good, a real surprise...
• The TMS DataModeler
• Introduction to Delphi Database Development: Part 1
• First Look at Advantage Database Server 10
• About Object Oriented Databases
• Fastreport, whats up?
• Using ADS with Delphi Prism and ASP.NET
• Example on datawarehousing using kbmMW
• Multiplatform Windows CE
• Five Considerations for Choosing the right SQL Development Tool
• More...

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 24 241kB

Platforms: D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, DXE

Description

The book "Delphi and Model Driven architecture" was published in 2004 by Russian "Piter" publishing house.

Now the book is translated to English.

The book includes 11 chapters:

• Model Driven Architecture overview
• Borland MDA overview (some words about history - Bold for Delphi, ECO)
• Quick start - simple application step-by-step
• The Model
• OCL ( language with many examples)
• Object Space (class structure etc)
• Bold Handles (all handles descriptions with examples)
• OCL using ( description how to use OCL from code)
• User Graphic Interface (visual Bold components overview)
• Persistence Layer (DB connect, schema generation, Bold tables structure, Bold Actions, XML etc)
• Third-party visual components using (how to use standard or third-party GUI components with Bold)
• Code generation
• Subscribing (mechanism, examples, operations, derived/reverse derived attribute using)
• Additional features (OLLE, OSS, regions ... overview)
• Third-party components overview (rad-studio, deBold, .... short overview)

Informations

• Status: Not available
• Source: None
• price: $25
• Size: 168kB

Platforms: D7

Description

This document will outline the default settings for establishing a SQL*Net 2 connection between any 16-bit application running under Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Windows 95, or Windows NT, which uses the Borland Database Engine (BDE) to access an Oracle Workgroup Server (OWS) version 7, either the Netware or the NT version.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 43kB

Platforms: D1

Description

"Many programmers today associate assembler with a difficult, low-level kind of programming. They consider it fast, but most of them also think it is incomprehensible and impossible to learn. In reality, things are not that bad. It is possible to learn how to write good assembly code without being a genius. On the other hand, don't think a few lessons in assembly will leave you producing faster code than the average Object Pascal equivalent. The reason is that when you write Object Pascal, you can rely on a very efficient and clever assembler programmer: the Delphi compiler. Overall, the code produced by it is very efficient and fast. Also, by following some guidelines spanning several specific coding topics, you can get even more speed out of Object Pascal and Delphi."

Russian translation by Anatoly Podgoretsky.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 84kB

Platforms: D2, D3, D4, D5, D6

Description

For most organizations, software development is a necessary evil. Just about every manager has at least one horror story involving a software development project gone awry.

Unfortunately, discussions about software quickly degenerate into technical jargon (and in many cases, technical nonsense) that is difficult to understand and even more difficult to use as the basis for meaningful executive decisions and strategy.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 947kB

Platforms: CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, KLX1, KLX2, KLX3

Description

This document presents an overview of formal cost estimation. It is based on a series of four articles written by William Roetzheim and published originally in Software Development magazine.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 331kB

Platforms: CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7, KLX1, KLX2, KLX3

Description

Information about creating native DOS programs with Delphi 4 and 5 with WDosX 32-Bit DOS-Extender. More information about WDosX and Delphi, installation and configuration Delphi for WDosX, precompiled WDosX units and WDosX components at the Delphi WDosX Page.

Guidance for the adjustment of the Delphi 5 VCL core units for WDosX 32bit DOS Extender.

In English and German.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 688kB

Platforms: D5

Description

DRKB (Delphi Russian Knowledge Base) is the most full and large Delphi knowledge system (in Russian). It is the compilation of articles, tips and so on from various forums (mainly from Vingrad.ru and Sources.ru) and the other sources.

Contains over 4000 articles in CHM format (Windows Help).

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 15 173kB

Platforms: C2k10, C2k6, C2k7, C2k9, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D1, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D2009, D2010, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

Great article of Dr. Bob which helps you to use Delphi in your Internet application (MS Word 97 format).

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 120kB

Platforms: D3, D4, D5

Description

Great article of Dr. Bob which helps you to use Delphi in your Internet application (MS Word 97 format).

Russian translation by Anatoly Podgoretsky.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 164kB

Platforms: D3, D4, D5

Description

Harvest of 65 tips and tricks for free use. All the source in formated text, ready to be used.

Every from the tips inside has been tried by the author.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: Included
• Size: 232kB

Platforms: D2, D2005, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

Making your application multilingual really is a necessity these days. Not only does it count as an extra feature with what to advertise your software, but it also multiplies the number of your potential customers. This article explaines how you could make your application multilingual with Multilizer.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 16kB

Platforms: D2, D3, D4, D5

Description

Documentation for 80386 ASM instructions. Ever found yourself, eyes glazed over, with those ASM instructions in the System and SysUtils units. Well this document is a repackaging of Intel's processor documentation, which may help in your understanding of the CPU instructions.

The documentation is in HTML Help format. (for easier screen reading).

The original HTML document was obtained from http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/index.html

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 928kB

Platforms: CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, D2, D3, D4, D5

Description

Interactive services is a very interesting kind of software. It looks alluring to have application that behaves as a normal interactive task with forms, dialogs, message boxes and at the same time works without having interactive user to logon, survives logoff/logon and performs necessary operations at the Local System security level.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 85kB

Platforms: D5

Description

Interview with Maxim Peresada, maintainer of Torry's Delphi Pages. The short history of this site, Torry's team and so on.

In Russian. Published in "PC World Russia" CD-ROM in May 2007. PDF format.

Maybe, you will find it interesting.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 958kB

Platforms: C2k6, CB1, CB3, CB4, CB5, CB6, D1, D2, D2005, D2006, D2007, D3, D4, D5, D6, D7

Description

This is a help file for the OpenToolsApi, used to produce Plugins/Wizards for Borland's Delphi and C++Builder products.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: N/A
• Size: 330kB

Platforms: CB5, D5, D6

Description

Get all the information you need to know on developing mobile apps for Android and iOS with RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder XE7 in this free 300+ page ebook.

Topics include:

• Setting up the tools and SDKs
• Creating your first mobile app
• Best practices for using components
• User interface design
• Connecting with data
• Push notifications
• And much more...

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 7 353kB

Platforms: CBXE7, DXE7

Description

Electronic book (PDF) which explains how to develop mobile applications in Delphi.

Should be useful for beginners.

In Russian.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 26 361kB

Platforms: DXE6, DXE7, DXE8

Description

This article complements our Delphi 4K guide and focus on application documentation in HTML Help (.chm) format. Once your application is DPI-aware, the Microsoft HTML Help viewer invoked via the HTML Help API, will be too.

What to take care of, what to avoid, and how to do it right: that's what you learn in this article.

Informations

• Status: Fully functional
• Source: None
• Size: 11 497kB

Platforms: DXE6, DXE7, DXE8