Category: Soft/Programming

  • VBA macros

    I re-wrote the parser for VBA code in Excel files (as part of SMImport). The ‘dir’ stream parsed as described in MS-OVBA

    Now you may extract the macros from your workbooks.

  • Embarcadero Technology Partner Portal

    In last 2 weeks every day I tried to login to TP but always got the error page from Interbase database on server side (even before my logon page displayed).

    Now seems like they fixed this issue and today I updated the licenses for old IDEs…

  • CPU upgrade for Probook 6570b

    http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/Probook-6570b-Are-the-CPU-amp-GPU-upgradeable/td-p/5079207

    The CPU’s are upgradeable. According to HP’s product bulletin the following should be supported:

    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3540M (3.0 GHz, 4 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.70 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3520M (2.90 GHz, 4 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.60 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3380M (2.90 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.60 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3360M (2.80 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.50 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3340M (2.70 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.40 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3230M (2.60 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)
    Up to 3.20 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3320M (2.60 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*
    Up to 3.30 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3210M (2.50 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*†
    Up to 3.10 GHz with Intel Turbo Boost Technology
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i3-3130M (2.60 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i3-3120M (2.50 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*†
    3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i3-3110M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*†
    2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i3-2370M (2.40 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*†
    Intel® Celeron® B840 (1.90 GHz, 2 MB L3 cache, 35W, 2 cores)*

     

     

    with a better CPU you also get some slightly better integrated graphics. If you want discrete graphics, HP supports the following graphics card: AMD Radeon™ HD 7570M, with 1 GB dedicated GDDR5 video memory

  • components for RAD Studio 10 Seattle

    We added the support for new RAD Studio 10 Seattle
    All our VCL components updated. New trial/demo packages published both for Delphi and C++Builder.
    The registered customers may download the updated files.

  • RAD Studio 10 Seattle

    RAD Studio 10 released today:
    http://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio

    I’ll publish the updated components soon.

  • New version for freeware SMDBGrid uploaded.
    Some bugs fixed and new eoCellWordWrap flag in ExOptions added for native wordwrap support in cells.

    Text wordwrap in cells for SMDBGrid
    Text wordwrap in cells for SMDBGrid

    Additionally to eoTitleWordWrap and eoRowHeightAutofit flags this feature allow to control the different modes in your applications. The new sample project you may find in DEMOS\SMDBGrid\WrapCells folder.

  • Kindle Paperwhite firmware

    Сегодня обновил Amazon Kindle Paperwhite с версии 5.3.6 на 5.6.1
    Поменяли немного меню, добавили несколько языков интерфеса (включая русский) и возможность создания персональных библиотек и словарей для каждого читателя.
    Почему-то обновления по воздуху (OTA) не прилетали вообще за все время. Хотя на Kindle Fire периодически прилетают.

    Список доступных обновлений есть тут

  • Excel Reader engine v3.1(b)

    The new Excel Reader engine (dll edition) v3.1 (beta) with native xls-file parser is published and available for download.

    New XLSConvertToXLSX method added to generate the xlsx file