Intro

Up until now, the only way to use the TTMSFNCWebBrowser in a Linux environment was through FMXLinux. Today, we can proudly announce official Linux support through Lazarus as well. A couple of FNC products were already working in Linux, but the browser based components, such as the TTMSFNCWebBrowser and the TTMSFNCMaps components (& descendants) were not working. We have been working hard the past months to make our browser based products ready for Linux. With Linux support through Lazarus, we add yet again a new platform to the wide variety of already supported platforms in FNC.

TMS FNC Components can be used simultaneously on these frameworks

TMS FNC Components can be used simultaneously on these operating systems/browsers

TMS FNC Controls can be used simultaneously on these IDEs

Getting Started

The components have been tested and deployed on a Linux environment (Ubuntu 20.04) after properly setting up Lazarus and other dependencies required for various parts of FNC.

sudo apt install joe wget p7zip-full curl openssh-server build-essential zlib1g-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libncurses5
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-glx libglu1-mesa libgtk-3-common libgstreamer1.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0
sudo apt install libwebkit2gtk-4.0-dev

GTK 3.0

TMS FNC Maps

Stay tuned!

With Linux support through Lazarus we add yet another major and exciting platform to the already huge amount of platforms FNC has to offer. Stay tuned for more FNC improvements and features coming up in the near future!.

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Imagine

Imagine your access to functionally useful
libraries, components, controls that are hard to find in the Delphi developer
community suddenly became easily available.

Visualize

Visualize you had no more concerns what
platform or what framework to choose for developing your next solution for your
customers.

Dream

Dream you can start adding seamlessly
exciting new functionality to your existing applications.

That is exactly the core goal of the brand
new WX concept we reveal today with TMS FNC WX Pack. In a nutshell, WX means
“Packaging Web technology in easy-to-use components for integration in any
type of Delphi application“.

With WX Pack, you can leverage existing Web
libraries in VCL Windows applications, FMX cross-platform applications for
Windows, macOS, iOS, Android & Linux, or TMS WEB Core Web applications for
any device running a modern browser.

How does it work?

The foundation of the WX concept is our
powerful TMS FNC Browser component with its accompanying bridge technology. The
FNC browser wraps the native operating system browser for the VCL, FMX, or LCL
framework and offers a sort of virtual embedded browser in a TMS WEB Core Web
application. This FNC browser is used to host a Web library with the choice to
host it for offline or for online use. You can opt for online use to make the
component lighter or offline use which means that the component will take up
somewhat more size in your executable (depending on the component of course)
but with the guarantee it will run fine without an Internet connection. Thanks
to the FNC bridge technology, the native application-level component can
communicate with the browser hosted library and vice versa. As a Delphi
developer, this is all abstracted and you only deal with it at Object Pascal
level as a component and its properties, methods, and events.

Where do we start?

There is an abundance of existing Web
libraries, so where to start was the big question. The answer was simply
listening to you, the user. For quite some time, among the most popular
requests for new components were a barcode generator component, a QR code
generating component, an HTML editor, a PDF viewer, …

And so, that is exactly where we started
our research and initial development to bring these components as part of the
WX concept. It enables us to deliver these kinds of components in a fraction of
the time otherwise needed to build them from the ground up, and it is an
opportunity to leverage proven, well-tested, and widely popular existing
libraries.

The first group of components

In the first beta build of TMS FNC WX Pack,
we have:

TTMSFNCWXBarCode
This components offers close to hundred different barcode types with lots of customization properties for these barcode types.

TTMSFNCWXQRCode
Component to generate QR codes of different type and with several customizations like logo in QR code for example

TTMSFNCWXHTMLMemo
Edit HTML directly with the TTMSFNCWXHTMLMemo component. It has an optional embedded format toolbar or can be used with external toolbar. Programmatic access to all formatting capabilities is available. Content is loaded and saved directly as HTML.

TTMSFNCWXPDFViewer

With this component on the form, you can display PDF files in your applications, including page thumbnails. There is programmatic access to navigate through pages, search text, …

TTMSFNCWXCamera

Access your device camera with the TTMSFNCWXCamera component and programmatically take pictures

Curious?

Eager to see it in action, check our first video we prepared:

Availability?

The first beta build is available for all
TMS ALL-ACCESS users with an active license. You will find this beta build in
your account, or you can access it from the TMS Subscription Manager. You can
download this new product now and start tinkering with it.

What’s next?

With your feedback, this will lead to the
release of the first version TMS FNC WX Pack (v1.0). It will be available as
part of TMS ALL-ACCESS, TMS FNC Component Studio, and as a stand-alone product.

In the meantime, additional components for
TMS FNC WX Pack are already in development, and we will reveal these shortly.
But other than this, it will be mostly YOU who will determine the future shape
& content of the TMS FNC WX Pack. If you have the need for specific
functionality not readily available in the Delphi component offerings but
easily available for Web developers, let us know and our team will research
wrapping it into a Delphi component with the WX concept. Leave a comment or
send us a direct email with your ideas!

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The new TMS FNC Maps update includes support for OverlayViews. This is a heavily improved equivalent of the Marker Labels functionality in TMS VCL WebGMaps and TMS FMX WebGMaps. OverlayViews are a Google Maps API specific functionality and therefore currently only available in TTMSFNCGoogleMaps. OverlayViews can be positioned anywhere on the map and support HTML tags.

3 ways to use OverlayViews

1. Connected to a Marker

The OverlayView is automatically displayed below an existing Marker and functions as a Marker Label. 

In code, adding a call to AddOverlayView on an existing Marker with the text that goes in to the OverlayView as a parameter value is all that is needed.

var
  m: TTMSFNCGoogleMapsMarker;
begin
  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.BeginUpdate;

  m := TTMSFNCGoogleMapsMarker(TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.AddMarker(TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.Options.DefaultLatitude, TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.Options.DefaultLongitude));
  m.AddOverlayView('Hello <font color="red">World</font>!<br>This is an <b>OverlayView</b>.');

  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.EndUpdate;

2. Positioned at a fixed Coordinate

The OverlayView is positioned at a fixed coordinate on the map. The size of the OverlayView remains fixed regardless of the map’s zoom level.

In code, setting the Latitude and Longitude coordinates will position the OverlayView at that exact location on the map.

var
  ov: TTMSFNCGoogleMapsOverlayView;
begin
  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.BeginUpdate;

  ov := TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.AddOverlayView;
  ov.CoordinatePosition := cpCenterCenter;
  ov.Coordinate.Latitude := TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.Options.DefaultLatitude;
  ov.Coordinate.Longitude := TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.Options.DefaultLongitude;
  ov.Padding := 5;
  ov.Width := 500;

  ov.Text := '' +
      '<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading">Uluru</h1>'+
      '<div id="bodyContent">'+
      '<p><b>Uluru</b>, also referred to as <b>Ayers Rock</b>, is a large ' +
      'sandstone rock formation in the southern part of the '+
      'Northern Territory, central Australia. It lies 335 km (208 mi) '+
      'south west of the nearest large town, Alice Springs; 450 km '+
      '(280 mi) by road. Kata Tjuta and Uluru are the two major '+
      'features of the Uluru - Kata Tjuta National Park. Uluru is '+
      'sacred to the Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara, the '+
      'Aboriginal people of the area. It has many springs, waterholes, '+
      'rock caves and ancient paintings. Uluru is listed as a World '+
      'Heritage Site.</p>'+
      '<img src="https://www.tripsavvy.com/thmb/XHi4Ec428VJFk_bsvNtv6fx5-bE=/2000x1500/filters:fill(auto,1)/GettyImages-675746097-5a8b94a427364afc89f054f71ceda86f.jpg" width="200"></img>' +
      '<p>Attribution: Uluru, <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uluru&oldid=297882194">'+
      'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uluru</a> '+
      '(last visited June 22, 2021).</p>'+
      '</div>';

  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.EndUpdate;

3. Positioned between preset Bounds

The OverlayView is positioned between fixed Bounds coordinates on the map and the size changes depending on the map’s zoom level.

When the map is zoomed out, the size of the OverlayView image automatically adapts to keep it inside the Bounds coordinates.

In code, set the OverlayView Mode to omBounds to keep it positioned and sized between the Bounds coordinates.
In this example an image is used to display a different style of map at that location. To make sure the image fills the entire available space,  it’s width and height must be set to 100%. Optionally the Padding, BackgroundColor, BorderColor and other configuration settings can be added.

var
  ov: TTMSFNCGoogleMapsOverlayView;
begin
  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.BeginUpdate;

  ov := TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.AddOverlayView;
  ov.Mode := omBounds;
  ov.Text := '<img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/geo-devrel-public-buckets/newark_nj_1922-661x516.jpeg" style="position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;">';
  ov.Bounds.NorthEast.Latitude := 40.773941;
  ov.Bounds.NorthEast.Longitude := -74.12544;
  ov.Bounds.SouthWest.Latitude := 40.712216;
  ov.Bounds.SouthWest.Longitude := -74.22655;
  ov.Padding := 0;
  ov.BackgroundColor := gcNull;
  ov.BorderColor := gcNull;

  TMSFNCGoogleMaps1.EndUpdate;

Available now

The TMS FNC Maps v2.1 update is available now. You can download the latest version and start using the new OverlayViews feature right away!

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“Learning while having fun”, is what our upcoming webinar is about! In about one hour, you will learn how to build your very own navigation system for your summertime hikes, bicycle tours or old-timer car trips!

The webinar is planned for Aug 19, 15h00 UTC (17h00 CET)  and you can register here

A PWA DIY navigation system for your smartphone or tablet

The DIY navigation system will be built as a PWA (progressive web application) with TMS WEB Core. This means you write the code once and you can install the application on any modern iOS or Android mobile device from an URL. No app stores to get approval from, no delays with deploying updates, all is installed in seconds after open the URL. 

Giving the 1996 Mercedes SLK R170 Youngtimer a Tesla touch with the TMS DIY Navigation system Delphi project

During the webinar, we will build and explain the application step by step. You’ll learn about using Google Maps, the Openroute directions REST API, access to your device geo-location + orientation and take advantage of the browser speech synthesis to give you directions by voice during the trip.

Get the entire project will full source code

Exclusively for all attendees of the webinar we offer at the end of the webinar the full source code. You will receive the source code via the TMS Web Academy during the webinar itself. Yes, we have meanwhile also introduced a couple of new features to the TMS Web Academy that will allow this file distribution live during the webinar!  
With the full source code, you can further fine-tune the DIY navigation system and add your own cool features to it.

Requirements

The DIY navigation system uses only the TMS WEB Core framework latest version either for Delphi, Lazarus or TMS WEB Core for Visual Studio Code. You will be able to build the project even with the trial version. So, if you haven’t tried TMS WEB Core yet, download and install it now in your preferred IDE!

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A couple of weeks ago I received an awesome e-mail from a customer, Vladimir Atanackovic. We have exchanged e-mails before. As a TMS Business customer, he was using TMS XData and naturally asking for help here and there with technical issues.

Our previous e-mail conversation was four months before, just a regular support question, but this one was different. He sent a kind e-mail for letting me know that his company has finally released their application, HealthLy, built with TMS XData.

About HealthLy

HealthLy is a mobile application, available for iOS and Android, that help users to manage their health life: track health data, provide reminders for taking medicines and injections, monitor health indicators, organize doctor appointments, offer information about drug interactions, etc.

In this blog post we added some screenshots of the application, but of course you are invited to visit the following links to know more about it, or even download and use it, it never hurts to take better care of your health!

• HealthLy for iOS (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthly/id1536292632

• HealthLy for Android (Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.healthcarecentral.healthly

• HealthLy web site: https://HealthLyApp.com

It was so nice to receive a personal message as a feedback from a customer, and even nicer to see our product, TMS XData, helping to build such a well built, well regarded, professional product like HealthLy (I has received 5 stars in both Apple and Google stores).

Vladimir shares his experience

After that, I asked Vladimir if he could share more technical information for the readers of this blog. He kindly agreed, and I sent him some questions. The pace of the “interview” or the questions might look a little strange, but it’s just because all the questions were made in advance without a previous answer.

If you are a TMS XData user, I hope you will find encouraging to see how many nice things can be built with it. If you are not a TMS XData user, well I can only invite you to join the family! I hope you like what Vladimir has to say about his development process, XData and, of course, HealthLy.

Wagner Landgraf: Can you please say in a few words for our audience what is your application for? Who can benefit from it?

Vladimir Atanackovic: Managing all the aspects of health development and history can be a big task. Even more challenging is when a person is struggling with a chronic condition or is helping someone else in that struggle.

Personalized health management depends heavily on health data analysis and well-organized health-related activities. HealthLy is a health management system and a companion.

It is encompassing the crucial health improving and monitoring tools together with personal health data to create a platform for individuals, families, and physicians, or pharmacists.

Two years ago, in order to validate our idea, we created a mobile app Tableta, designed only for a local market and with limited features. Through the organic growth and no marketing money, we have managed to reach 3,000 users and achieve 4.8 stars ratings on both PlayStore and AppStore.

WL: I see your app has 5 stars score in both App Store and Google Play. Congratulations about that! What do you consider are the strong points of your app and what makes it so appreciated by your customers?

VA: HealthLy has 5 stars score in both App Store and Google Play and about 50 reviews till now.

I think the biggest strength of the app itself is precisely the team of people behind HealthLy.

The team includes professional and good developers, people from the medical profession, as well as from business.

The application is very intuitive, and we have 2 years of experience with the MVP application Tableta, as well as 20 years of experience of people in the field of medicine, exclusively in working with patients, who are an important part of our team. We strive to create an application that is easy and intuitive to use for patients (of all ages), and which in turn includes the ability to monitor everything related to user health.

I think that the strength lies in covering all the needs of users in the easiest, fastest and simplest way possible. Of course, we put a lot of energy into the security and stability of the application itself.

WL: What did you use to develop the frontend and backend of your application?

VA: As the idea creator, and at the same time an experienced Delphi programmer, it was logical for backend to be developed in Delphi. In addition to decades of experience working with Delphi, I did not work with backend programming before this project, I mainly developed Windows desktop applications.

Exploring which tool is best and easiest to use for backend development, I came across XData and blown me away by the ease, speed of development, as well as scalability, simply “that was it”.

The frontend was developed in Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS. The Delphi community in Serbia is relatively small and this was, somehow, the most logical solution for the front, in order to quickly gather a great team of developers for the frontend.

WL: What is the architecture of the backend, hardware used, costs…?

VA: Server is hosted on MS Azure in USA (because application is covering Serbian and US market at the moment, and we are currently planning expansion on EU). We are using XData Console Application, base is FireBird 2.5 (planning 3.0 soon).

Application is not very demanding thanks to XData performance and server that we are using is Windows Server 2019, 2 cores i 8GB RAM.

We also used blob fields in the database, but we also save larger files on Azure Blob Storage.

Backend costs are affordable for now. Once again, XData is a great product that manages data very quickly and well without too much hardware requirements.

WL: How was the development experience? Was the learning curve steep, what were the main difficulties you had?

VA: The development experience, in addition to a lot of challenges and new things that needed to be learned, went quite quickly and easily. The challenges were great, switching from desktop applications to cloud based applications is not easy.

Delphi is something I love and a lot is known, XData just builds on previous knowledge, the challenges were somehow on another field.

For the first time, I also encountered Google Payment and Apple payment APIs related to subscription applications, etc. Other things were more or less familiar. We also tried to prepare the application for HIPAA compliance, for which we plan to apply in the USA, so we had to study and research there. One of the challenges is the security of the database and data, encryption of the same, because it is also sensitive, health data of users.

WL: What good surprises, good experience you had during the development?

VA: Every new thing I learned made me even more interested in the possibilities of the environment itself and the improvement of the application itself. XData is a really great product, very fast to learn, but also very fast and stable to use.

I also remember one true anecdote during development: when we included one frontend developer in the iOS team, he was looking for something from the server and the GET was so fast that his comment was: it’s coming from a local core data. Then I told him it was not, it came from the server 🙂

Indeed, most XData functions depend only on the internet flow of the frontend application, and the server is so fast that you often have the impression that it extracts data locally.

WL: How is the reliability of the solution? Did/do you have any issues with memory consumption, stability, performance…?

VA: The solution is very stable and there are very little resource requirements. I have followed it a lot and believe me, I execute queries over large tables very quickly with a very small load on memory or processor. Our database contains a complete database of FDA drugs, as well as over 250,000 pharmacies and hospitals in the USA and Serbia with all address data and the codebooks themselves are over 1.2 GB of data, the server is almost “playing” with the data 🙂 We also supported the Cyrillic alphabet for users in Serbia and behaves well there.

WL: Is the server heavily requested? Are you allowed to share numbers like user base size, and/or number of simultaneous requests, or something like that?

VA: The server is not heavily requested and I am very enthusiastic about it. As far as user data is concerned, it’s hard for me to say for now, because we are just at the beginning, but we have a constant growth of new users and downloads.

I can say that we had the most access when we appeared in Serbia on national television and presented the application, then over 1000 users registered in less than 15 minutes and it went very well.

The application itself in that part is not demanding, you update the therapies, enter examinations, health indicators and sometimes there are a lot of users, and sometimes less at the same time. What is important is that the server works great and XData really solves it perfectly.

WL: Were you satisfied with the support you received from TMS Software? Was it valuable to have a company behind the product to help you out and guarantee bug fixes? What could be improved in the support?

VA: Now here to praise you and really you personally, you answered my every question and email very quickly and helped me solve the problems. TMS is a great company and I am a very satisfied user, so I can only say the best.

WL: Anything else you would like to comment or share to our audience, who are mainly Delphi developers looking about how to bring their applications to the cloud, build mobile solutions?

VA: A warm recommendation that if you plan to develop applications to the cloud XData is a very good solution for that, it works quickly and reliably. It is easy to learn if you are a Delphi programmer and have experience working with databases.

Thank you

I just want to send a big “thank you” to Vladimir for building such nice application and having the time to share his experience with us.

What about you? Did you find it interesting? Do you also have similar stories to share? Comment below or send us a note, we are eager to know the great things you are building with TMS solutions over there. Let us know!

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A couple of weeks ago I received an awesome e-mail from a customer, Vladimir Atanackovic. We have exchanged e-mails before. As a TMS Business customer, he was using TMS XData and naturally asking for help here and there with technical issues.

Our previous e-mail conversation was four months before, just a regular support question, but this one was different. He sent a kind e-mail for letting me know that his company has finally released their application, HealthLy, built with TMS XData.

About HealthLy

HealthLy is a mobile application, available for iOS and Android, that help users to manage their health life: track health data, provide reminders for taking medicines and injections, monitor health indicators, organize doctor appointments, offer information about drug interactions, etc.

In this blog post we added some screenshots of the application, but of course you are invited to visit the following links to know more about it, or even download and use it, it never hurts to take better care of your health!

• HealthLy for iOS (App Store): https://apps.apple.com/us/app/healthly/id1536292632

• HealthLy for Android (Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.healthcarecentral.healthly

• HealthLy web site: https://HealthLyApp.com

It was so nice to receive a personal message as a feedback from a customer, and even nicer to see our product, TMS XData, helping to build such a well built, well regarded, professional product like HealthLy (I has received 5 stars in both Apple and Google stores).

Vladimir shares his experience

After that, I asked Vladimir if he could share more technical information for the readers of this blog. He kindly agreed, and I sent him some questions. The pace of the “interview” or the questions might look a little strange, but it’s just because all the questions were made in advance without a previous answer.

If you are a TMS XData user, I hope you will find encouraging to see how many nice things can be built with it. If you are not a TMS XData user, well I can only invite you to join the family! I hope you like what Vladimir has to say about his development process, XData and, of course, HealthLy.

Wagner Landgraf: Can you please say in a few words for our audience what is your application for? Who can benefit from it?

Vladimir Atanackovic: Managing all the aspects of health development and history can be a big task. Even more challenging is when a person is struggling with a chronic condition or is helping someone else in that struggle.

Personalized health management depends heavily on health data analysis and well-organized health-related activities. HealthLy is a health management system and a companion.

It is encompassing the crucial health improving and monitoring tools together with personal health data to create a platform for individuals, families, and physicians, or pharmacists.

Two years ago, in order to validate our idea, we created a mobile app Tableta, designed only for a local market and with limited features. Through the organic growth and no marketing money, we have managed to reach 3,000 users and achieve 4.8 stars ratings on both PlayStore and AppStore.

WL: I see your app has 5 stars score in both App Store and Google Play. Congratulations about that! What do you consider are the strong points of your app and what makes it so appreciated by your customers?

VA: HealthLy has 5 stars score in both App Store and Google Play and about 50 reviews till now.

I think the biggest strength of the app itself is precisely the team of people behind HealthLy.

The team includes professional and good developers, people from the medical profession, as well as from business.

The application is very intuitive, and we have 2 years of experience with the MVP application Tableta, as well as 20 years of experience of people in the field of medicine, exclusively in working with patients, who are an important part of our team. We strive to create an application that is easy and intuitive to use for patients (of all ages), and which in turn includes the ability to monitor everything related to user health.

I think that the strength lies in covering all the needs of users in the easiest, fastest and simplest way possible. Of course, we put a lot of energy into the security and stability of the application itself.

WL: What did you use to develop the frontend and backend of your application?

VA: As the idea creator, and at the same time an experienced Delphi programmer, it was logical for backend to be developed in Delphi. In addition to decades of experience working with Delphi, I did not work with backend programming before this project, I mainly developed Windows desktop applications.

Exploring which tool is best and easiest to use for backend development, I came across XData and blown me away by the ease, speed of development, as well as scalability, simply “that was it”.

The frontend was developed in Kotlin for Android and Swift for iOS. The Delphi community in Serbia is relatively small and this was, somehow, the most logical solution for the front, in order to quickly gather a great team of developers for the frontend.

WL: What is the architecture of the backend, hardware used, costs…?

VA: Server is hosted on MS Azure in USA (because application is covering Serbian and US market at the moment, and we are currently planning expansion on EU). We are using XData Console Application, base is FireBird 2.5 (planning 3.0 soon).

Application is not very demanding thanks to XData performance and server that we are using is Windows Server 2019, 2 cores i 8GB RAM.

We also used blob fields in the database, but we also save larger files on Azure Blob Storage.

Backend costs are affordable for now. Once again, XData is a great product that manages data very quickly and well without too much hardware requirements.

WL: How was the development experience? Was the learning curve steep, what were the main difficulties you had?

VA: The development experience, in addition to a lot of challenges and new things that needed to be learned, went quite quickly and easily. The challenges were great, switching from desktop applications to cloud based applications is not easy.

Delphi is something I love and a lot is known, XData just builds on previous knowledge, the challenges were somehow on another field.

For the first time, I also encountered Google Payment and Apple payment APIs related to subscription applications, etc. Other things were more or less familiar. We also tried to prepare the application for HIPAA compliance, for which we plan to apply in the USA, so we had to study and research there. One of the challenges is the security of the database and data, encryption of the same, because it is also sensitive, health data of users.

WL: What good surprises, good experience you had during the development?

VA: Every new thing I learned made me even more interested in the possibilities of the environment itself and the improvement of the application itself. XData is a really great product, very fast to learn, but also very fast and stable to use.

I also remember one true anecdote during development: when we included one frontend developer in the iOS team, he was looking for something from the server and the GET was so fast that his comment was: it’s coming from a local core data. Then I told him it was not, it came from the server 🙂

Indeed, most XData functions depend only on the internet flow of the frontend application, and the server is so fast that you often have the impression that it extracts data locally.

WL: How is the reliability of the solution? Did/do you have any issues with memory consumption, stability, performance…?

VA: The solution is very stable and there are very little resource requirements. I have followed it a lot and believe me, I execute queries over large tables very quickly with a very small load on memory or processor. Our database contains a complete database of FDA drugs, as well as over 250,000 pharmacies and hospitals in the USA and Serbia with all address data and the codebooks themselves are over 1.2 GB of data, the server is almost “playing” with the data 🙂 We also supported the Cyrillic alphabet for users in Serbia and behaves well there.

WL: Is the server heavily requested? Are you allowed to share numbers like user base size, and/or number of simultaneous requests, or something like that?

VA: The server is not heavily requested and I am very enthusiastic about it. As far as user data is concerned, it’s hard for me to say for now, because we are just at the beginning, but we have a constant growth of new users and downloads.

I can say that we had the most access when we appeared in Serbia on national television and presented the application, then over 1000 users registered in less than 15 minutes and it went very well.

The application itself in that part is not demanding, you update the therapies, enter examinations, health indicators and sometimes there are a lot of users, and sometimes less at the same time. What is important is that the server works great and XData really solves it perfectly.

WL: Were you satisfied with the support you received from TMS Software? Was it valuable to have a company behind the product to help you out and guarantee bug fixes? What could be improved in the support?

VA: Now here to praise you and really you personally, you answered my every question and email very quickly and helped me solve the problems. TMS is a great company and I am a very satisfied user, so I can only say the best.

WL: Anything else you would like to comment or share to our audience, who are mainly Delphi developers looking about how to bring their applications to the cloud, build mobile solutions?

VA: A warm recommendation that if you plan to develop applications to the cloud XData is a very good solution for that, it works quickly and reliably. It is easy to learn if you are a Delphi programmer and have experience working with databases.

Thank you

I just want to send a big “thank you” to Vladimir for building such nice application and having the time to share his experience with us.

What about you? Did you find it interesting? Do you also have similar stories to share? Comment below or send us a note, we are eager to know the great things you are building with TMS solutions over there. Let us know!

… Read More

TMS FNC Printing

The print library supports creating documents,
adding pages and page content such as HTML formatted text, plain text, drawing
primitives and images, with practically the same code on all different frameworks.

This has been implemented on three different levels.

The lowest level of implementation for the print library is the use of TMSFNCPrinter, this is done in a similar way as TPrinter is used on VCL, Lazarus, FMX Windows and MacOS. With TMSFNCPrinter there is now support for FMX Android and iOS and for TMS WEB Core.

The difference with TPrinter is that the drawing should be defined in the OnDrawContent procedure. 

uses
  …, FMX.TMSFNCPrinters, FMX.TMSFNCGraphicsTypes;

procedure Click(Sender:TObject);
begin

  TMSFNCPrinter.OnDrawContent :=

  procedure
  begin
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Font.Color := gcBlue;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Font.Size := 40;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawText(0, 20, TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth, 100, 'Hello', False, gtaCenter, gtaCenter);

    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Fill.Color := gcRed;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawEllipse(100,200, TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth - 100, 300);

    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawBitmap(50,400,TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth - 50, TMSFNCPrinter.PageHeight - 50, Image1.Bitmap, True, True);

    TMSFNCPrinter.EndDoc;
  end;

  TMSFNCPrinter.BeginDoc;
end; 

On top of the TMSFNCPrinter, there is the TMSFNCGraphicsPrintIO component, which gives the ability to further define the layout of the document with a header, footer and page number and to add certain FNC components.

The TTMSFNCRichEditorPrintIO and TTMSFNCGridPrintIO are added In the TMS FNC UI Pack. These components have some additional properties to make the export of the TTMSFNCRichEditor or TTMSFNCGrid even more customizable.

Design-time Editors

Working with FNC controls should be fast and simple. And for that reason we’re adding two new design-time editors in TMS FNC Core.

These help with setting the properties for the TTMSFNCGraphicsFill and TTMSFNCGraphicsStroke.

… Read More

TMS FNC Printing

The print library supports creating documents,
adding pages and page content such as HTML formatted text, plain text, drawing
primitives and images, with practically the same code on all different frameworks.

This has been implemented on three different levels.

The lowest level of implementation for the print library is the use of TMSFNCPrinter, this is done in a similar way as TPrinter is used on VCL, Lazarus, FMX Windows and MacOS. With TMSFNCPrinter there is now support for FMX Android and iOS and for TMS WEB Core.

The difference with TPrinter is that the drawing should be defined in the OnDrawContent procedure. 

uses
  …, FMX.TMSFNCPrinters, FMX.TMSFNCGraphicsTypes;

procedure Click(Sender:TObject);
begin

  TMSFNCPrinter.OnDrawContent :=

  procedure
  begin
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Font.Color := gcBlue;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Font.Size := 40;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawText(0, 20, TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth, 100, 'Hello', False, gtaCenter, gtaCenter);

    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.Fill.Color := gcRed;
    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawEllipse(100,200, TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth - 100, 300);

    TMSFNCPrinter.Graphics.DrawBitmap(50,400,TMSFNCPrinter.PageWidth - 50, TMSFNCPrinter.PageHeight - 50, Image1.Bitmap, True, True);

    TMSFNCPrinter.EndDoc;
  end;

  TMSFNCPrinter.BeginDoc;
end; 

On top of the TMSFNCPrinter, there is the TMSFNCGraphicsPrintIO component, which gives the ability to further define the layout of the document with a header, footer and page number and to add certain FNC components.

The TTMSFNCRichEditorPrintIO and TTMSFNCGridPrintIO are added In the TMS FNC UI Pack. These components have some additional properties to make the export of the TTMSFNCRichEditor or TTMSFNCGrid even more customizable.

Design-time Editors

Working with FNC controls should be fast and simple. And for that reason we’re adding two new design-time editors in TMS FNC Core.

These help with setting the properties for the TTMSFNCGraphicsFill and TTMSFNCGraphicsStroke.

… Read More