In my last blog post I showed the value of prudent class design with regard to platform development. Ina nutshell, our component has a base class that only contains basic functionality that is platform independent. The platform dependent parts are implemented in…
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Month: September 2016
Component Development: Proof of concept; multi-platform demos
Tagged with: API, Component Development, FireMonkey, FMX, FNC UI, multi-platform, Pexels, VCL, web service
Component Development: Building a multi-platform component for the Pexels API
A couple of days ago I announced the Pexels API component for Delphi. As Delphi Berlin makes it so easy to develop for multiple platforms, I wanted the component to be platform-independent – meaning: the component is supposed to work…
Download an image from the web and assign a stream to TPicture (for any image format)
I struggled with this myself when implementing the Pexels component. The problem is rather simple: You download an image from the web, end up with data in a stream and want to use a bitmap to use the image in…
Introducing the Pexels.com Delphi Component
Pexels.com is a wonderful resource for some of the very best photography on the internet. The best about it: All images on that platform can be used without any limitation. Thus, the creators of Pexels.com offer an API to retrieve images.…
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