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Valentine’s Day is here, and there is extra love in the air today. It is not only about hearts and chocolate, but also about something that makes developers smile. Delphi is celebrating its 31st birthday!For 31 years, Delphi has i...

Once upon a time, an operating system's graphical user interface, if it was lucky enough to have one, consisted primarily of triangles, rectangles, simple fonts, and very few colors. This utilitarian look was necessitated as...

PrefaceTMS Smart Setup is already in beta, and we are seeing overwhelming enthusiasm from lots of you. To be 100% honest, way more enthusiasm than what I would have expected for a command-line tool that installs packages. But there is also o...

IntroOrganizing various actions in your application is typically done in (dropdown) - menus, toolbars, status bars and more in the form of small buttons or menu items, and typically we also want to mimic the look & feel as close as possible to th...

Celebrating four decades since the debut of Turbo Pascal, we now embrace Delphi 12, a fresh addition to RAD Studio 12 Athens. My journey began with Turbo Pascal version 3 in 1986, missing the initial 1983 release. Yet, the thrill of engag...

The very concept of copy and paste operations, and even their corresponding keyboard shortcuts, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, have been around since the early 1970s, with credit going to Larry Tesler, working at Xerox PARC at the time. Tod...

IntroAt some point in time, during the application development cycle, there will be a need for visualizing data in an organized single or multi column list or view. Even for those requirements, both TMS VCL UI Pack & TMS FNC UI Pack have a se...

The long awaited FNC Family update is here! Check out in this blog post what's new and improved.TMS FNC UI PackTTMSFNCTileListA while ago we discontinued TMS FMX UI Pack and focused heavily on TMS FNC UI Pack. In the transition TMS FNC UI Pack had ma...

IntroductionInstallers get little recognition. You don't buy a product to use the installers: you want the product, and the installer is just a way to get and use the product. At TMS, we often fail to give them recognitio...

IntroApplications come in all forms & sizes. The implementation differs based on customer requirements. In our previous blog series we focused on labels, buttons and syntax highlighting editor components. We covered some of the most basi...

Are you ready to revolutionize your component installation and updates? TMS Software is excited to introduce the TMS Smart Setup beta, a game-changing tool that promises to streamline the process and enhance ...