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Introduction Over the years, I don’t think I can count the number of times that I’ve wanted to send window messages to some other application. It can be useful for automating the target application,...
I’ve been using subversion for many years, and it has always served my needs well. When I decided to switch to GitHub for hosting my ‘DarkGlass’ project, I didn’t foresee the difficulties that I...
REST Services using Delphi: REST Services using C++ Builder: Source code for both Delphi and C++ Builder: RADServerSample
Introduction A while back I wrote a component for exposing FireDAC tables as REST endpoints in Delphi. I wasn’t entirely happy with the component that I’d written, however, it was really intended as a...
What is darkVulkanGen? A handful of months back, I began working on a game engine for Delphi named darkGlass. see: http://chapmanworld.com/darkglass/ https://github.com/chapmanworld/DarkGlass At that time I’d intended to write the rendering part of the...
My regular readers may be aware that over the past two or three months, I’ve been working on building a new video game engine for Delphi. I’ve also had many other demands on my...
Another library to drop out of my Dark Glass development project today is my unicode codec (now named darkUnicode). darkUnicode is now a part of the darkGlass repository: https://imstillfree.com/darkUnicode username: anon password: anon This...
A few weeks ago, I began a live-streamed coding project to develop a game engine named DarkGlass using Delphi. When I began the project, I knew that it was possible that several useful libraries...
Here’s a little Déjà vu for regular readers of my blog. One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically...
One of my customers emailed me with an interesting problem this morning. “I need to be able to peek into a video file, specifically a .mp4 file, and determine if it’s PAL or NTSC.”...
Back in November for CodeRage-12, I demonstrated a partial translation of the Xlib headers for X11. At that time I explained that I’d not completed the headers, but would notify on my blog when...
In case you missed it, here’s the Delphi podcast for Feb 27th 2018 – Delphi Game Engines (skip to about 9:30 to spare yourself the technical difficulties with the stream)
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