TMS WEB Core v1.8 Sirolo beta available
TMS WEB Core v1.8 beta is here
It was of course highly anticipated and awaited, this new version of TMS WEB Core v1.8 named Sirolo. Sirolo is a small but beautiful town along the Italian coast at the Adriatic sea. After city Ancona (name of TMS WEB Core v1.7 release), it is a nearby little town the Mille Miglia race in 1955 crossed.
Other than the reference to this beautiful place, what does TMS WEB Core v1.8 brings on the table for Delphi developers:
1) Miletus support for macOS and Linux
After Miletus targeted Windows in TMS WEB Core v1.7, our team now accomplished the phenomenal next step to create cross-platform web technology based desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux. And all that with a minimal footprint. On Windows and Linux this means single executable file apps and for macOS the typical application folder but also here with a single application executable file. Deployment can be done via ultra simple XCOPY deployment.
Not familiar with Miletus? You can learn all about it from this webinar replay
2) Extended Miletus local databases support
In this new version, we added two more possible local databases that can be directly used from a Miletus application and that is Interbase and Firebird. No need here to create a REST API interface, you can directly connect a client dataset to local databases. In v1.8 this is now: MS Access, MS SQL, mySQL, SQLite, Interbase and Firebird.
3) Miletus support to access INI files and registry
Convenient for storing application settings, INI files or registry is what developers frequently use. So, from a Miletus app you can now easily access these INI files and the registry in the same way as you can from a VCL or Firemonkey application. Of course, there is no registry on macOS or Linux and here there is automatic fallback on INI files.
4) Two new UI components
We have added two new controls to TMS WEB Core v1.8. This is a chatbox control and a rating panel. With the TWebChatbox control, you can write web chat applications with little to no code. Drop this component on the form and all you need to do is write some lines of code to send the message to your chat server of choices or receive messages from there. The other new component is the TWebRatingPanel. This is the classic UI pattern of rating via clicking a number of stars (or other icons of choice). The rating panel offers setting rates in units of 1, 0.5 or fully fractional.
5) SHA1 encryption support in the TWebCrypto component
As SHA1 is often needed in communication protocols, we extened the TWebCrypto component that is internally using the browser crypto API to also offer SHA1 support.
6) Lots of smaller improvements and new features
Based on your feedback and that of our team, we did numerous smaller improvements to the components, we further polished the Object Pascal to JavaScript compiler and integrated the latest pas2js RTL.
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Meanwhile, enjoy a great holiday period, why not at the gorgeous beaches of Sirolo in Italy, and with this, this blog article is full circle.
