Oregon Delphi User Group

We have something a little different this month. Gene Juhos will bring a couple of Arduino projects he’s been working on: Pill dispenser for the Age(d)s Socket head screw safety wire hole deburring machine. We’ll probably have some left-over time, so if you have any hardware projects to add to the discussion, feel free to bring them and share with everyone. PRESENTER Gene Juhos has been working with Delphi since version 3.

There is no specific talk or presentation planned tonight. We’ll just chat as friends and colleagues about whatever topics arise.

We’ll have a short presentation of how to send SMS messages from a Delphi app. There isn’t much to it but might be interesting for some. We’ll fill the rest of the time by covering any previous topics that you’d like. If you’ve missed a recent ODUG meeting and would like to ask questions or see demos of things that have been missed, come to this meeting and we’ll dig stuff out of archives and get you caught up.

This month, we’ll continue exploring the client/server application we looked at last month, but we’ll concentrate on the client end. The end result is an Android app that communicates by sending JSON data via REST protocols to the Windows server. We’ll use Delphi 10.2 Tokyo and the Firemonkey framework utilizing both a Windows client for quick testing and then deploying to an Android phone. The app will demonstrate login/logout, multiple pages with navigation, using a barcode scanner, and capturing a signature.

We’re going to start off 2019 with a series of meetings that show you how to build a mobile application that talks to a server back-end. David will show a project built with Delphi 10.2 Tokyo that has two parts: 1) a Windows server console application that talks to an InterBase database and provides an API to which a client application connects; and 2) an Android app that connects to the server and communicates JSON data via REST protocols.

For anyone who wants to just chat about Delphi or related technical (or non-technical) topics, David Cornelius will be at the restaurant tonight at the regular time.

Since our regularly scheduled meeting for November fell on the day before Thanksgiving and NO ONE would be there, we decided to move the meeting date forward a couple of weeks. We don’t normally meet in December, but we’ll make an exception because it’s early enough in the month that it shouldn’t conflict with any holiday/family plans. We won’t have a specific presenter but could start off the discussion with how the year went for everyone, touch on some of the interesting news highlights in the tech industry, and go from there.

This is Part II to August’s topic in a way because we will be looking at a different way to get your legacy applications to run through a browser. However, this time we’ll be looking at a different product from the same company that provided Thinfinity VirtualUI. There are cases where that scenario doesn’t quite cut it. Cybele Software provides another solution, Thinfinity Remote Desktop Server. There are many Remote Desktop clients and other ways to access remote desktops through a browser.

Unfortunately, due to schedule conflicts, this meeting has been canceled. We’ll see you next month!

This month we will show how, by adding a simple library to your old Delphi code, your Windows VCL application can run through a web browser on any device that supports HTML5. No need to use WebBroker or convert it to IntraWeb or Firemonkey, just simply open up your project, add a unit, recompile, and it now is able to paint on an HTML5 Canvas–provided the Thinfinity VirtualUI server is running.