TMS Component Pack v8.8 is here
What initially started in 1999 as a small bundle of about 15 VCL user interface controls for Delphi, has grown in about 18 years to a set of over 400 powerful and feature-rich components for...
View ArticleTMS Analytics for nonlinear multiparametric approximation of surface data
The new version 2.2 of TMS Analytics and Physics pack contains the nonlinear least squares approximation tools. The nonlinear approximation tasks are widely used in statistics to fit experimental data...
View ArticleDocument and test your REST API using OpenAPI/Swagger support in TMS XData
TMS XData 2.7 has been just release with lots of new features. The most interesting one, in my opinion, is OpenAPI/Swagger support. TMS XData server can now optionally provide a JSON file containing...
View ArticleImprovements for symbolic expressions simplification in TMS Analytics &...
One of the unique features of the Analytics library is symbolic derivatives calculation. The derivative can be calculated just with several lines of Delphi code, for an example: var f, df: string; t:...
View ArticleThe Exit Procedure
All Pascal programmers know the Exit() procedure since the early versions of the compilers. But do they know how to use it correctly? The Exit() procedure is used when we want to exit of running...
View ArticleAnnouncing TMS RADical WEB
The world of web development has evolved at a fascinating pace over the past 15 years. I still remember having developed around 2001 a CGI-bin based WAP pages server application, a solution that is...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, RAD web development from the Delphi IDE
It cannot be denied that RAD component-based application development is the very foundation of Delphi software development. It is the foundation that got us all so excited since Delphi 1 in 1995. It...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, proud to announce a revolutionary & innovative UI control...
Over two years ago, we did deep research at TMS to create a UI control abstraction layer that would allow to create UI controls that can be used to create VCL Windows applications, FMX cross platform...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, connecting to data
As Delphi developers we are used to frameworks and components to take the chore out of using databases. Ever since Delphi 1, database handling was abstracted by the TDataSet & TDataSource. Wouldn't...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, open to other Javascript frameworks
By design, the Pascal to Javascript compiler that is integrated in the Delphi IDE via TMS WEB Core provides a thin, direct and thus high-performance layer to Javascript. This also means that it is...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, using HTML & CSS for design & layout of your application pages
By default, the Delphi form designer serves as a WYSIWYG design surface for your web application forms. This means that the UI controls on the Delphi form will appear absolute positioned on the web...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, using common web functionality & consuming cloud services
In web applications, we have come to expect that we can easily integrate audio, video or services like Youtube or Google Maps to embed video or geographical functionality. TMS WEB Core provides a...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, debugging your code
Given TMS WEB Core is based on a Pascal to Javascript compiler with the Javascript code running in the browser, there is not a direct way to debug the code from the Delphi IDE. From the IDE, the...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, history, the team and future
There is the famous quote: "Everything starts with a dream" and many years ago, Michael Van Canneyt, one of the main contributors to the Lazarus and Free Pascal compiler project had the dream of...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, Easy REST Server integration with TMS XData Client
One very cool feature of TMS RADical WEB (if not the main one) is that it allows Delphi developers to build Web applications that do not need a server connection. It's just HTML and JS files that run...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, developing custom controls
In November 2016, I created a presentation for Embarcadero CodeRage about creating FNC custom controls. You can find this presentation including its source code here:...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, technology preview update
Weve been overwhelmed by the enthusiasm of many users about the news of TMS WEB Core and also the many reactions, feedback, comments of users who immediately got their hands wet with the technology...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, time for some fun
Last week, our team was brainstorming and as usual, lots of interesting and cool ideas come up. Based on these ideas, we have some more exciting technology being worked on now and coming up soon and...
View ArticleTMS RADical WEB, custom controls using HTML elements
In a previous blog, it was demonstrated how custom controls for TMS WEB Core could be created using the FNC framework and how easy it was to use FNC code that was written for VCL, FMX or LCL...
View ArticleObject Pascal: Declaring Units
Declaring units in a specific order in code would facilitate the code maintenance in the future. Introduction When we're organizing our things, we tend to keep closer to us all objects that we use...
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