The ODT file extension is used for Open Document text files, which are usually created using the OpenOffice or LibreOffice word processor apps. This document format is based on the XML markup language and therefore easy to convert. To understand what kind of format it is, it’s enough to see t...
Summary of ODS and ODF ODS is an open format for spreadsheets made in accordance with the OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard. This format is distributed free of charge and uses the standards of the International Organization for Standardization. The standard was developed by OASIS technical committ...
As for Delphi applications, we understand that we are talking about applications implemented in VCL (Visual Component Library) for the Windows operating system. The popularity of Delphi VCL slightly faded with the advent of the C and .Net platform but there are lots of Delphi developers all around t...
Lately many countries have been digitizing payment processes. In other words, they convert existing payments to digital format. The most common way to automate payments is to use QR codes that are easily read by smartphones. The ability to encode a sufficiently large amount of information, high dama...
The TXT file stores text documents with information organized in the form of lines. In modern systems, strings are separated by line separators; in the past, storing strings in the form of records of constant or variable length was used. Sometimes the end of a text file (especially if the file size ...
Microsoft PowerPoint is a program for preparing and viewing presentations. It is a part of Microsoft Office and is available in editions for Microsoft Windows and macOS operating systems, as well as for Android and iOS mobile platforms.The program saves new presentations in * .pptx, * .ppt, * .ppsx ...
DOCX is an archive file that can be unpacked by a third-party program. This format is an upgraded version of the well-known DOC extension. A significant difference is a low file weight while maintaining all the original image parameters. If .doc is a binary text file, .docx contains XML files and ad...
CSV files (comma-separated values) are special types of files that you can create, read and edit in Excel. This format is textual and designed to provide tabular data. In CSV documents the data fields are separated by commas instead of columns (commas in English version or semicolons in Russian vers...
A frequent question is how to send a document from a Delphi application to RTF. It is a popular format and if you don’t have Microsoft Word installed on your computer you can use WordPad to open the file. This format is supported by Mac OS X’s default editor TextEdit. Most text editors s...
A developer has a huge choice of options when the task is to export to Excel from Delphi or Lazarus – it was partially described in the article “How to export a report to XLS Biff8 from Delphi” and there I also briefly explained why it is a bad choice. And what is a good choice, th...
Probably many have encountered the problem of using a CSV file as a DataSet in Delphi. Let's have a look at one of the solutions to this problem. We will connect the CSV file via TADOQuery and build a report from this data in FastReport VCL 6. Create a project and add the following components. ...
Quite often, you need to get a PDF document from a Pascal application - either Delphi or Lazarus. Usually it is recommended to use specialized solutions, PDF converters (such as itext, Synopse PDF Engine, PowerPDF, HotPDF, PDF Creator Pilot, PDFtoolkit VCL, Debenu Quick PDF Library etc.). In this ar...
Oh, it’s an eternal topic – creating an Excel spreadsheet from Delphi. Excel spreadsheets are one of the world’s standards today and for programs, even simple ones, it is frequently required to output the data as tables and transfer reports to the spreadsheet. One thing to notice i...
Today we will look at the way to get stock quotes using a GET request with HTTPS protocol and public tradingviewapi.docs.apiary.io APIAccording to the documentation https://tradingviewapi.docs.apiary.io/#reference/0/history/0?console=1 in order to get stock quotes you need to use the GET req...
Console utility FRConverter 1.0 (QuickReport 9, ReportBuilder 19 , Rave Reports to FastReport VCL 6)
Previously, there were several articles about converting QuickReport 6 and ReportBuilder 19 templates to *.fr3 format. But this is all inconvenient and requires additional effort to create a project and connect additional modules and creates difficulties when converting templates in bulk. We decid...
Today we will look at migration from QuickReport 6 to FastReport VCL 6. Let's do it with the updated Converter included in FastReport VCL 6.3, it allows you to convert your template, even without QuickReport 6 installed on your computer. Converter (ConverterQR2FR.pas) has the following list of c...
Today we will look at migration from ReportBuilder 19 to FastReport VCL 6. Let's do it with the updated Converter included in FastReport VCL 6.3, it allows you to convert your template, even without ReportBuilder 19 installed on your computer. Converter (ConverterQR2FR.pas) has the following li...