Tag Archives: UI

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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Don’t Do Evil to Users

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Francesca Gaillard

vs “Your work will self-destruct in five seconds…” With Delphi (or C#) it’s so easy to put a Timer to implement some Auto-DoStuff feature that you’ll find one in almost any application. No doubt it can be very handy; it … Continue reading →

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