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VCL Component (TOpenGLAPPanel)

Allan — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:09:14 +0000

Fixes for typecasting error in Get3DTextSize, DrawText2D and DrawText3D.

Remember to change the range for FirstGlyph and NumGlyph to 0 and 255 to get the full range of characters.

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OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

R.I.P.

Allan — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:51:29 +0000

In memory of my lovely dog Holger.

1997-04-20 to 2010-06-11

Rest in peace my friend.

Thumbnail Toolbars

Allan — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:37:23 +0000

The more advanced taskbar in windows 7 has the capability to add a toolbar in the thumbnail preview.
This example put two buttons in the thumbnail, and the main window will display a text when one of these buttons is displayed.
(remember to press register before they appear)

Download Thumbnail Toolbars 1.0
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Windows 7 Thumbnail Toolbar example in Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

VCL Component (TOpenGLAPPanel)

Allan — Sun, 02 May 2010 07:39:19 +0000

Another bug has slipped through my testing.
The Get3DTextSize() contained a small error that caused 1 character length string to be ignored.

Download TOpenGLAPPanel 1.1.9
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OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010

Cavalier King Charles

Allan — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:31:47 +0000

My lovely dog a Cavalier King Charles has turned 13 years of age, and that is quite impressive.
He is not like a puppy anymore, but he is as lovely as always.

Happy birthday… (2010-04-20)

FBO and Bitmap Layer Demo

Allan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 22:19:40 +0000

This is a demonstration of rendering to frame buffer objects (FBO)
and then transfer the buffer to a TBitmap to use the
UpdateLayeredWindow feature in windows to handle transparency.

Download Bitmap Layer Demo 1.1
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Demonstration of FBO (frame buffer objects)

User Account Control

Allan — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:07:33 +0000

This small apps contains a class for detection if the application is
“Run as Admin”, elevation level, if its elevated and more enjoy..

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How to validate agains UAC in Windows Vista and Windows 7

Demo of OpenGL Text 2D/3D

Allan — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:33:23 +0000

Small application to demonstrate the use of 2D text and 3D text features of TOpenGLAPPanel.

Download Clock 2D/3D Text Demo 1.0
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Demonstrates the use of 2D and 3D Text in OpenGL

VCL Component

Allan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:30:15 +0000

Due to a few bugs found in my TOpenGLAPPanel i’m releasing an update.
Draw2DText, Draw3DText and Get3DTextSize contained a Unicode error, so I desided to go back to good old char * in those functions.

Download TOpenGLAPPanel 1.1.8
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OpenGL VCL Component for Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010. This release contains bugs in Get3DTextSize. Please use version 1.1.9 or never

Scanner

Allan — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:04:55 +0000

Small scanner application to demonstrate multi document environment (MDI) .
It uses the “twain_32.dll” for handling the interface to your scanner.

Download Twain Scanner 1.2
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This is a twain implementation, to access your scanner in a multi document environment (MDI).