Unlike Microsoft’s Visual Studio, the option to switch from Debug to Release in Delphi is kind of hidden. However, it is very easy to use.
Go to the Project menu and select Configuration Manager Now select your project, Choose a new configuration and Press the “play” button. The following picture shows you how the Configuration Manager looks: By default, the difference between the Debug and the Release options include:
One advantage of Delphi’s dynamic arrays is that they are automatically freed once they go out of scope. That simplifies memory management and gives you more flexibility on your applications.
You can declare a dynamic array like this:
Customers: array of string; Before adding an element, you have to call the SetLength function to specify the number of elements you are going to use (3 in this case):
SetLength(Customers, 3); Now you can go ahead adding values:
Multithreading is one of those operating systems feaures that make your programs work in a more efficient way and give your users a better interactive interface. However they are not used by all developers.
In this article I will focus on some important points you must have in mind when using threads on Delphi.
How to create them There are two simple steps to accomplish it:
Create a new class that inherits from TThread and Override the Execute method.
This time I want to share with you a Windows application for image resizing. It’s a fact, size matters. That is why Image Resizer can be very useful for sharing pictures through email, uploading images to websites or posting them to social networks. If your images are smaller, then it will take you less time to share them.
This application can load a list of jpeg, gif, png or bmp files, resize them and then put them on a selected folder.
