Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

July 22, 2008

Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

I've uploaded on YouTube a very simple video, with a compiled Delphi application showing Unicode support.

I've uploaded on YouTube a very simple video (no audio, for now sorry, taht will come in the next few days), with a compiled Delphi application showing Unicode support. In the first part I fill a grid with the first 127 ascii chars or the full 256 elements. Than I do the Unicode version, and some of the characters (added by Windows, not part of the standard) are not there. The final portion shows how Delphi interprets a constant character with the Euro symbol depending on the character type.

This is meant only as an experiment to test the capture software and the capture mode (small window following the mouse). Let me know how you like it, and I'll get you more, with my narrating voice as well (or shoudl I pick some music?)! I have a few small Unicode programs (part of my upcoming book) ready to show.

PS. I was allowed by CodeGear to blog about the upcoming Tiburon release of Delphi. As this is beta software, things can change in the final release. Don't take anything I write or show fro granted... and the usual extra disclaimers.

posted by marcocantu @ 2:32PM | 4 Comments [0 Pending]

4 Comments

Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

 It's nice to see more and more people talking about
Tiburon.
The post is very nice and the video is very well, but
what I really love in your post is the disclaimer. 
You're a real developer!

Tiburon rocks!

Comment by jachguate [http://jachguate.wordpress.com] on July 22, 15:55

Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

Great.  Another envelope stretching test for the
Unicode capabilities in Tiburon.

It's particularly gratifying to see that the beta
testers have been really stressing the implementation
and testing the limits with existing, highly complex
and involved applications with large amounts of string
processing code to ensure that Tiburon is not the
massive mis-step that a great number of people fear it is.

Oh no, wait.... my mistake.

:(

Comment by Jolyon Smith [http://www.deltics.co.nz] on July 22, 23:53

Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

Hi Marco,

That's very good that you finally started to "talk"
about Tiburon.... 

As for the videos "how-to" I'll like to recommend you
the know well-known videos/"Camtasias" from Nick and
Alister (so you can "steal" some ideas of "scripts +
scenography"): 
http://delphi.wikia.com/wiki/Delphi_Videos

As for the subjects to be discussed I will like (if
possible and fit with your own schedule) to cover the
following areas: 
- anonymous method (possible impact on DSLs ?)
- any other Delphi language extensions/updates ?! (I
hoped for a event multicast support in Win32 similar
to .NET based on Include/Exclude overloads)
- enchanced VCLs properties and controls
- OTAPI updates (SVN support mentioned in roadmap ?)
- editor updates (better error insigth, quick-fix ?,
new refactorings, modeling etc ?)
- ECO (V ?) updates 
- .NET updates (can you "foresee" any LINQ-like
support in Delphi ?)  

10x for your continuous Delphi support !

Comment by El Cyparu on July 22, 23:59

Delphi Unicode Experiments Video

It is a very interesting video!
with the next you can narrate the following steps :)

Thank you!

Comment by Amanda [http://www.todascifras.com.br/] on July 28, 16:29

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