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Delphi Dev. Shell Tools – New features 22 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am
I just added a set of new features to the Delphi Dev. Shell Tools like support for Lazarus, a new owner draw panel to the shell menu that shows information about the selected Delphi project file (.dpr...
Introducing The Delphi Dev. Shell Tools 19 Aug 2013 | 07:50 pm
I just started a new Delphi Project called Delphi Dev. Shell Tools the aim of this shell extension is facilitate some common tasks like open, build and edit a Delphi project , as always the project...
Listing the running user applications under osx using Delphi 19 Jul 2013 | 07:28 am
The NSWorkspace class provides a set of methods and properties which allow open and manipulate files, applications and others useful tasks. One of these properties can be used to list the running appl...
Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi (XE2, XE3, XE4) Part 2 29 Jun 2013 | 11:04 pm
This is the continuation of the Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi (XE2, XE3, XE4) Part 1 article. Inside of the Posix.SysSysctl unit (which is the translation for the sysctl.h fi...
Getting System information in OSX and iOS using Delphi (XE2, XE3, XE4) Part 1 1 Jun 2013 | 01:08 am
In the following article you can learn how to use the sysctl, sysctlbyname and sysctlnametomib functions to get system information (kernel values, hardware, networking, file system, machine specific a...
Enabling XPath (selectNode, selectNodes) methods in Vcl and FireMonkey Apps 29 May 2013 | 09:53 pm
The TXMLDocument class allow you to manipulate XML files in VCL and FireMonkey Apps, but this class doesn’t implements a direct way to call the XPath related methods (selectNode, selectNodes) , so you...
Hosting Preview Handlers in Delphi VCL Applications 25 May 2013 | 12:54 am
In this post i will show you, how you can host an existing Preview Handler in your Delphi VCL App. Preview handlers are a lightweight and read-only preview of a file contents that are bound to a the p...
Added support for RAD Studio XE4 in the Delphi IDE Theme Editor. 25 Apr 2013 | 11:42 am
This entry is just for announce which the Delphi IDE Theme Editor now supports RAD Studio XE4. Installer of the Delphi IDE Theme Editor
Added support to TSMBIOS for SMBIOS 2.8 spec. 12 Apr 2013 | 09:41 pm
A few weeks ago (3 Apr 2013) a new update to the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) Reference Specification was introduced by the DMTF. So the TSMBIOS project was updated to support the SMBIOS 2.8. The f...
Getting Processor Info using Object Pascal (Delphi / FPC) and the TSMBIOS 27 Mar 2013 | 07:45 pm
The SMBIOS expose the info about the installed processors in the table type 4. Check the next snippet that shows how obtain such data using the TSMBIOS (remember, if you are using FPC, you can use thi...
