wpadmin 1) Improved component WPImagelist which holds the icons for the TWPToolbar, SVG support. If you add the unit WPIcons to your project (i.e. in one uses clause) all TWPToolbars will automatically use the new, nicer icons. The color icons can now display the current color. You can use the WPImageList with the TWPToolButtons to create … Read more
“High dpi” means, that the monitor of the computer a program is running displays more than the usual 96 pixel per inch. This causes the user interface to become really small, if it was not adapted to High Dpi. Or windows is asked to scale the program, which causes ugly blurry symbols and text. To … Read more
For in-house use I developed a specialized book-keeping software. Its main purpose is to do multiple calculations, such as taxes and expenses. Since it would be nice that this program also works with MAC-OS, I checked if it would be possible to convert the VCL application to FireMonkey. The project mostly uses standard components, WPTools … Read more
1) Dynamic/Live database tables in the document (included in “Premium” and Bundle editions) Do you need to present the user the result of a database query and also print it? With WPTools’ dynamic tables the user can not only browse the result of the query, but also change the appearance of the table and the … Read more
As a component developer I have to install all recent Versions of Delphi on the same machine. This is required to run a script which creates the object files required by the customers. There are still numerous customers who use Delphi 5 – no wonder, it was stable and creates compact applications and why change … Read more
The event OnPaintWatermark can be used with a TWPRichText to draw a watermark. This event is executed every time the page is rendered, either on screen, during printing and also when a PDF export is performed using the component wPDF. The event OnPaintWatermarks received the canvas to draw to, the current resolution to draw, the … Read more
Happy Birthday WPTools! Did you know that WPTools V1 first became available on January 15, 1996? Originally introduced in 1995 as the successor to TurboPascal, Delphi quickly became a very successful Borland product. Then on January 15, 1996 Julian Ziersch published a new component – WPTools – which allowed programmers to easily add word processing … Read more
Starting 2015 customers from other EU countries must be charged their home VAT rate. (This does not apply to companies which can provide a VAT ID – in their case no VAT is charged) Since it is legally demanded to show the prices including the VAT, the problem was: How to update a price in … Read more
Every so often I receive mails from customers who require support or just have questions. Of course and answer goes out – but, unfortunately never reaches the recipient. Instead a new mail arrives, now in a more angry tone: where is my answer. Well, I am trying but SPAM filter make it impossible to communicate. My contact e-mail … Read more
