Category Archives: Windows

Reading Version Information from your EXE

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Francesca Gaillard

Very often, you have to check some information contained in the VERSIONINFO section of your application and most of the examples you can find on the InterWebz are doing it by using this WinAPI routine: GetFileVersionInfo.

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Embedding and playing Sound/Music in a Delphi Application

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Francesca Gaillard

Or The new old stuff… We had to make the application play specific sounds as a status indicator that doesn’t require the user to look at the screen. To avoid external dependencies, the idea is to embed some WAV files … Continue reading →

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A little bit of zis, etc. #2

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

I know, I’ve been not very much of a blogger lately… Delphi XE2 is announced and it surely looks like a very interesting release (and probably with some nasty bugs as well, we’ll see)… I take the bet it will … Continue reading →

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The Unfortunate Effect of WM_SETREDRAW

Posted on February 27, 2011 by Francesca Gaillard

… or why simply replacing LockWindowUpdate by WM_SETREDRAW is not that straightforward. As you know, when you want to avoid flickering or multiple partial redraws of your Forms, during a flurry of updates for instance, even though it is very … Continue reading →

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French Delphi Speech Session Downloadable

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

The zip of my CodeWay 4 session (in French) is now available for download here. FYI, the old CodeRage 4 session (in English) is also available from Embarcadero: “Speech Enabling Delphi Applications (zip)”

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French Delphi Speech Session Material

Posted on November 27, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

A big thanks to all who attended my session on Delphi Speech at CodeWay 4, the French online conference. As promised, I have uploaded the material used for the session:

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My Delphi Speech Session in French

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

… is almost now. The agenda for CodeWay 4 has it at 17:00 Paris time. That’s 8am here in San Francisco and 11am in Quebec and on the East Coast. Here’s the menu: •Vue d’ensemble •Synthese •Dictee •Contrôle •RichEdit 4.1 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Speech Server 10.2 better than 10.1

Posted on November 23, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

As I indicated in this previous post, if you want Text-To-Speech in another language than English, you have to install Microsoft Speech Server. And I gave the link to install the v10.1 I had installed and planned to use for … Continue reading →

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Speech, but not in English

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

As many of you know, it is easy enough to add Text-to-Speech (TTS) or Speech Recognition (SR) to a Delphi application on Vista or Windows 7. Microsoft SAPI 5.x is pre-installed with the OS. (See my CodeRage 4 session (zip) … Continue reading →

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RichEdit On Scrolling Strike

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

We have an application that displays information in a scrolling RichEdit control, always displaying the latest, i.e. the bottom lines. For this purpose we add new lines at the bottom, place the SelStart at the end, to move the caret … Continue reading →

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