TMS Pack for FireMonkey v2.9 released with a new Spell check engine

Rad Studio Delphi Development
TMS Pack for FireMonkey v2.9 released with a new Spell check engine & a major update of TTMSFMXRichEditor! In this new version we've added a new TMS Spell Check engine and a major update of the TTMSFMXRichEditor. What's new & improved in v2.9: New : TMS Spell Check engine for Windows and Mac OSX: Supports ISPELL dictionaries and raw dictionary formats Includes dictionaries for many languages including: English, Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian TMS Spell Check can directly interface to TTMSFMXRichEditor or it can be used standalone Persists its dictionaries and ignore list in a database. Can be used either in a synchronous way or an asynchronous way Words can programmatically be added to the ignore list and dictionary Comes with several predefined user interface controls: TTMSFMXSpellCheckConfigDialog, TTMSFMXSpellCheckLanguageSelectDialog, TTMSFMXSpellCheckCorrectPanel,…
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Mitov Software releases the latest video – audio components for Delphi as well as other platforms

Rad Studio Delphi Development
Mitov software has a huge library that consists of video components that you can insert into your application for the end user. Viewing the latest seminar you can view it by clicking here. The products or libraries are reasonably priced for a small or large software house.    View the video to see whether this fits into your development and let Mitov know you saw this on Baron Software. Mitov Software provides you:  Acquire and process digital signals (DSP)  Develop powerful displays for complex signals  Capture, analyze and transform audio & video  Detect objects and track targets in video  Build classifiers and AI applications  Assemble gauges and meters for monitoring & control  Visual logic decision making  Timeline driven events & animation Component libraries come in 3 versions a VCL -…
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How to reset the phpBB admin password in the event you forgot nightmare.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
To reset your phpBB Admin password, please follow these steps: A)  Using your web hosting control panel or the every least you need to identify the MySQL database associated with your phpBB installation. You have to locate the config.php usually located in the phpBB default folder that you originally installed the application. Open the config.php with any text editor to review and locate the section that is set in red bold.  That information has the database username and password which allows you to gain access. // phpBB auto-generated configuration file // Do not change anything in this file! $dbms = 'mysql'; $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbport = ''; $dbname = 'database_name'; $dbuser = 'database_user'; $dbpasswd = 'database_password'; $table_prefix = 'phpbb_'; $acm_type = 'file'; $load_extensions = ''; @define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true); ?> B)  From…
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Delphi Tip if you get “unit vcl.filectrl is specific to a platform” warning

Rad Studio Delphi Development
The warning "unit vcl.filectrl is specific to a platform" is Delphi's way of giving you heads up that the addition of one of the few components such as TDRIVECOMBOBOX will not work on other platforms besides a Windows environment. To remove this type of warning during the application build cycle just do the following in your code: unit uDashboard; interface {$WARN UNIT_PLATFORM OFF} This will remove the warning message and not destroy the application integrity. The lab found that by placing it under the interface section the warning went away but if you place it under the implementation as displayed below the warning was still seen. It does make sense to place prior to the uses clause since the compiler will first see that you want to turn off the…
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Farewell to the electronics part king, RadioShack

Software Events
RadioShack has hit the end of the line. The 94-year-old electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday after striking a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its stores to the wireless service provider Sprint. What holds for the 27,000 employees, at this point no one knows, how many stores will be left open, once again no one knows but this was one of the major players in the early microcomputer days. RadioShack known for electronic parts and the TRS-80 computer has drastically changed in the last 10 years trying to keep up with the Best Buy and Walmart, by selling phones, contracts and various other things that no one wanted to go to a RadioShack to purchase. When they introduced the TRS-80, RadioShack still had the image of…
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