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Internet Explorer Automation Part 4
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– I this article, I will explain how to extract statistics from Blogger stats page. This follows the previous article in which you learned how to automate the login process and get the stats page. The stats page is organized in a number of HTML elements. The one which is interesting for us is a ...
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Pascal still an advantage for some iOS, Android developers
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– Just read this article. It could also interest you so I share it: http://www.zdnet.com/pascal-still-an-advantage-for-some-ios-android-developers-7000014743/ Follow me on Twitter Follow me on LinkedIn Follow me on Google+ Visit my website: http://www.overbyte.be
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Be-Delphi Event 3.0
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– Be-Delphi Event 3.0 on November 21st in Edegem, Belgium. Stay tuned for more info... Follow me on Twitter Follow me on LinkedIn Follow me on Google+ Visit my website: http://www.overbyte.be
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Internet Explorer Automation Part 3
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– Today I will present an Internet Explorer automation which will query Blogger stats page automatically. IE automation is required because Blogger website makes heavy use of JavaScript to dynamically construct the stats page. Downloading the webpage with a HTTP component won’t work because the ...
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OpenSource GDI+ Library - Part 2
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– In a previous article, I talked about OpenSource GDI+ Library for Delphi. In this article I will present a small application which is the basic of an image processing or image drawing application. A form to display an image The application is divided into two forms. One main form and one image ...
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OpenSource GDI+ Library
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– Sometimes ago, I discovered an open source GDI+ Library built by Erik Van Bilsen. I now use that Library extensively with excellent result. I used it to build an image processing system and other similar things. The Library is intended for Delphi 2009 and above. I currently use it with Delphi ...
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Delphi XE4 MS-Office components
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– Delphi XE4 is delivered with 3 sets of Microsoft Office components (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Access): Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2010. None is installed by default. To install Office components, you must launch the IDE, select "Component" menu and then "Install packages". In the ...
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Getting Network Share List
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– Network neighborhood can be obtained programmatically in any application. It’s just a matter of a single Windows API call to the NetShareEnum function. MSDN publish the complete description of NetShareEnum at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb525387(v=vs.85).aspx Since ...
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Delphi XE4 and AnsiString
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– I already ported a lot of my applications to Delphi XE4. This represent hundreds of thousands lines of code. All in all this was very easy, coming from XE3. There is only one changed feature that forced me to slightly update my source code: in XE4, all AnsiString routines have been moved to a new ...
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Enabling floating form designer in Delphi XE4
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– Delphi XE4 has an interesting feature removed from previous versions: the floating VCL form designer. You can enable it again easily, at your own risk. While the IDE is not running, launch the registry editor, locate the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Embarcadero\BDS\11.0\Form Design and set the ...
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Delphi XE4 is available
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– With Embarcadero RAD Studio XE4 you can create true native apps for PCs, tablets, and smartphones from a single code base, and get them to markets and users fast. True native apps run directly on the device, getting full access to all underlying capabilities, tighter security, and a better user ...
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Serial Port Programming RS232 / RS485
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– Using the serial port is a common task and there are a huge number of components for doing that. I'm using TCiaComPort by Wilfried Mestdagh for years. It is a freeware with source code available at: http://www.mestdagh.biz/soft_components.html Recently, I have updated the source code for Unicode ...
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TabOrder blues
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– In every Windows form, the user is allowed to use the tab key to cycle thru all controls on the form. When building a form, the developer can select the tab order to fit his needs. For example if the form looks like a grid, he set tab order so that the focus goes horizontally first. Alternatively, ...
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Subclassing a window
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– Subclassing a window What is it? Subclassing a window is the process of intercepting all calls to the window procedure of a given window. When you subclass a window, you can get hand on every message sent/posted to the window you’ve subclassed. Why subclass? Why would you want to subclass a ...
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Inter Process Communication Using Pipes
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– A pipe is a communication channels between two ends. It is mostly used to communicate between processes running within a computer. As such it is an Inter Process Communication (IPC) mechanism. The concept of pipe is well known in the Linux (Unix) world. It is used on the command line to direct the ...
