Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers
Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch.
Where do they come from?
What would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
This is a practical poll question, what would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
What would you like to see most and foremost, and would most have a use for?
To force you to choose, you can only pick two items!
Not in (interpreted) Kansas anymore
For a few weeks now, an experimental JIT compiler has been available in the DWScript SVN for 32bits code. A more detailed article into the hows and whats and WTFs will come later.
Consider this article as an extended teaser, and a sort of call for test cases, benchmarks and eyeballs on the source code.
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DWScript showcase: AquaSoft SlideShow
Answering the call for showcases, Steffen Binas prepared a very nice set of screenshots for AquaSoft‘s Slide Show impressive product, which went far beyond the minimal requirement, so I’m posting a full-blown article about it. Following is the presentation of their software and how DWScript is used inside it.
When you need a powerful showcase I’d bet AquaSoft SlideShow is the one: http://www.aquasoft.de/diashow
Despite the simple name of the application it’s very powerful, just have look at the trailer video created completely with it.
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COM connector spring cleanup
DWScript COM Connector has just received a spring cleanup, as it had grown a bit mouldy over the last years. The COM Connector optionally gives scripts direct access to ActiveX and COM objects.
As part of the cleanup, it now support IEnumVARIANT and ComVariantArray can now be enumerated as well with “for in“.
DWScript happenings
This is a belated news update, with only the highlights:
What client-side platforms do you develop for?
What client-side platforms do you develop for? With Delphi/FreePascal or with other tools.
This is a small poll to gauge the audience of this website, check all applicable, but please limit yourself to those you personally develop for (be it work or hobby), not your company or colleagues.
Publishing pictures from an HTML5 app
This is a belated followup to the L-System Fiddle series from last year (more like a forgotten article), which ended with a Pascal-based HTML5 app being used to generate fractals and publish them to imgur.
Call for DWScript showcases
Delphi array constructors performance (or lack of)
In Delphi you can initialize a dynamic array in two ways, either manually or via the Create magic constructor
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