Before you download an app (not just one written with a Python IDE) or run a file such as a CMD script, it is important to know that the file itself is secured and safe. We do not want any harmful viruses to ruin our computer or hack all our private information. To prevent this from happening, we often run virus scanners before running the file. It is also equally important to verify signatures…
OnMinimize or DelphiVCL.Application.OnMinimize occurs when a Python GUI DelphiVCL application is minimized.
Write an OnMinimize event handler to perform special processing when the application is minimized. The application is minimized either because the user minimizes…
One of the steps toward professional deployment of your Python GUI apps is the way you deploy and maintain them. This video from PyCon in Pittsburgh goes into depth about the how and why containers can help lift your Python GUI app’s perceived professionalism and…
Python is an excellent language for the absolute beginner to pick up quickly and easily. Here I will present a quick overview of what six key points you should get familiar with when you have little to no programming experience. While there are many online courses, you can learn how to code on your own for free. There are plenty of valuable resources available with excellent Python IDE tools…
Everyone may agree that it is necessary to keep humans safe and in charge, but enforcing ethics is daunting work. This video discusses how you should learn to use your preferred technology ethics code, not just in Python but in any programming language. It introduces the…
In this Learn Python video presented by Flávio Juvenal da Silva Junior from digital PyCon, we will learn more about Record Deduplication and how exactly it works using Python Software. There will be instances where we encounter duplicate records in our datasets. While these…
John Elder of Codemy launched a Python Tkinter GUI tutorial series that aims to teach us all the basic information of cross platform development using the Tkinter framework in Python. Interestingly, part of this series is some advanced projects that help us discover Tkinter to its full potential. One of his recent projects is a comprehensive Customer Report Management database app.
In this…
In the DelphiVCL Wiindows UI Toolkit TMonitorDefaultTo specifies which monitor to select when there is no match to the specified criteria.
TMonitorDefaultTo indicates which monitor should be used when the selection criteria do not match any of the monitors in the…
As a part of the DelphiVCL Windows UI Toolkit the DelphiVCL.Timer or TTimer is used to encapsulate the Windows API timer functions.
TTimer is used to simplify calling the Windows API timer functions SetTimer and KillTimer, and to simplify processing the WM_TIMER messages.
When performing development on Windows, the ComponentState property or DelphiVCL.Application.ComponentState is used to describe the current state of the component, indicating when a component needs to avoid certain actions.
ComponentState is a set of constants defined in the TComponentState type.
Components use the ComponentState property to detect states in which certain kinds of actions…
