Oregon Delphi User Group

This month, we’ll meet at Gene and Sue’s home for authentic home-made pizza! They have a new address and would like a head-count, so watch your email and RSVP to that. If you want to attend, join our Groups.io mailing list and I’ll make sure you get an invite.

No meeting this month–enjoy a trip to the beach or mountains!

We’re taking it easy this month–no official presentation, no computers, just get together as friends and make sure we’re all surviving the summer heat!

Due to multiple conflicting schedules, we will not hold our regular Delphi meeting in Oregon this month. Enjoy the Juneteenth holiday and we’ll see you in July!

We have no official presentation this month. Instead, we’ll just discuss whatever topics that arise, possibly touching on RTTI and attributes.

We have no official presentation this month. Instead we’ll just discuss whatever topics that arise, like the recent release of Delphi 12.1, or why Lazarus produces much faster Linux code than Delphi, or where you were during the Eclipse on April 8? _UPDATE: The Main Topic turned out to be Source Control. A few notes were thrown together at the last minute and a good discussion ensued. Download: PowerPoint Slides (with links!

An interesting challenge was presented on multiple Delphi forums recently that grabbed my interest: read in a billion rows of data, collate and sort them, and print the summaries using only pure Object Pascal. The challenge started in January by an engineer’s blog post and has been expanded to Java, Go, and even SQL! For Delphi and Free Pascal, there’s an open source project and there’s an active discussion on Discord.

Homer will discuss two topics: 1) how he created a Chromium browser in Delphi 2007, and 2) how he implemented drag ’n’ drop between a VCL app and web page fields. Because Chromium relies on external DLLs, the steps involved in creating a browser in D2007 should apply to later Delphi versions. The Chromium support files and libraries must reside in very specific relative paths. That becomes a consideration when distributing the application via an install program.

A year ago, David mentioned a growing interest in building websites using Hugo and studying its underlying Go programming language; we took a look at both briefly. After building three small sites from scratch, he converted an existing site built with Drupal; this ODUG website was the result of that effort. A theme was found and modified to make the meeting notices look like Pascal procedures. It took a bunch of work and that experience will be shared, along with some of the details of how the site is put together, at the January meeting.

As you’ve probably heard, the latest and greatest development tool from Embarcadero has just been released, RAD Studio 12 Athens. Every time a new major version comes out, it is touted as a significant upgrade and boasts that NOW is the time to upgrade if you’ve been thinking about it. You’ll have to come to our November meeting and see for yourself why this can truly be said of this release.