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2025 Focus & priorities
Monday, December 30, 2024
So, a new year is around the corner and as always, the transitioning to a new year brings a time for reflection. While there are already several ongoing projects running for Q1 2025, we are still pondering on the bigger scope of planning for the entire year 2025. We want to make sure we do the right things. The better the efforts of our team are aligned with your needs & wishes, the more successful we will all be. To help steering this, we created this poll. We invite you to indicate where you think our team should put the most efforts. Of course, anything that falls outside the scope of the poll questions, feel free to add these in the blog comments.
We look forward to all your inputs and we will of course share the results in a couple of days! (Make sure to log-in on our website to see the vote)
Bruno Fierens
This blog post has received 45 comments.
2. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:50:28 PM
Speeding up TWebStringGrid actions, especially including filtering, would be my priority.
Peterson Terry
3. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 6:57:03 PM
Two things I would like to see:1. Passkey support for Webcore and/or Sphinx
2. Support for ML-KEM and ML-DSA in TSM Cryptography and IOS /Android support.
Charles Stack
4. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 7:17:53 PM
For me, it applies - just do exactly as you have been doing.I certainly can''t use the full level of all the innovations you''ve provided in 2024, but I''m really satisfied in the area I''m in.
I hope and wish you that not only my opinion will remain similarly optimistic for 2025!
Nevertheless, I think that others who work in the field every day will provide you with useful and practical recommendations.
Bal? Miroslav
5. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 7:18:13 PM
I’d be great to have a project template to write NodeJS/deno/bun server applications. Perhaps with components to simplify routes and endpoints. That would open a whole world of opportunities for Pascal Developers.
Fulvio Romano
6. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 7:23:06 PM
Please post more training videos on YouTube. That would be a big help!
bart
7. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 7:24:37 PM
My interests are almost exclusively in TMS WEB Core. It would be amazing to have a TMS WEB Core Miletus app that could be packaged for the Apple App Store.
Andrew Simard
8. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 7:36:43 PM
WEB Core, which includes FNC components and the BIZ components in my mind.Extend StellarDS to support back-end scripting in Object Pascal. That means interpreted, not compiled, so it''s easy to update. Maybe JS generated by pas2js, or even typescript.
wiz
9. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:22:41 PM
Keep improving/expanded FNC, Biz, and WebCore (but I''m not ready to leave VCL UI Pack behind quite yet so don''t abandon it yet!). My wishlist item is adding CesiumJS support to FNC Maps.
sysop
10. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:42:34 PM
I''m using Web Core a lot. Specifically to develop PWAs. I also use the BIZ package for this. My need is that so far I haven''t seen a demonstration or a blog post on how to create notifications in a PWA in practice. I''ve seen this need from others on the forum. That would be very interesting.
Faleiro Ubaltino
11. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:48:18 PM
Hallo,ich würde mir den Ausbau der FNC Planner, Chart und Grid Komponenten wünschen. Beim Umstieg auf die neuen Komponenten, ist mir erst später im Detail aufgefallen, dass noch etliche Funktionalitäten der bisherigen VCL UI Bibliothek fehlen.
Danke
Steffen Weiner
12. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:48:49 PM
-web core for typescript with right to left support from day one.-FNC for web core typescript version seperate and not depend on delphi or FMX with full right to left support.
- All back end staff (Biz bundle) for node js and type script.
- excel reporting for typescript and web core.
Ahmed
13. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:49:51 PM
I would need to think about this further but I think the TMSFNCDataGrid with the ability to deal with multiple master-detail relationships is both useful and powerful. This could be part of a datacube with both row-column and graphical representations of different dimensions.
Lunt Martin
14. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 8:53:02 PM
What kinds of notifications? https://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=1125
Andrew Simard
15. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 9:07:58 PM
I''d appreciate just a little more effort on the Lazarus version. Or am I the only one using it?
Horst Noecker Herr
16. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 9:28:38 PM
Put more traction into .Net components and TypeScript/JS. Especially TS/JS support for Web development. DELPHI is no longer the language with a bright future in the next decade.
Hindermann Thorsten
17. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 10:05:24 PM
My 2025 wish is some videos/articles that take into account that not all, at least myself, am not an expert programmer. That is why I use libraries in the first place :)A "Step by Step guide for Idiots" like me on how to make/use X-Data server/services with databases would be nice. And using only the wizards, with no modifications of the generated wizard code.
Ekerhovd Ole
18. Monday, December 30, 2024 at 10:26:51 PM
I program in C++ Builder. Would be nice to experience some of the Web Core and BIZ "stuff" available for us "C/C++" developers.
Steven Ollmann
19. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 12:41:56 AM
To Hindermann Thorsten:Why should TMS and Delphi be polluted with .NET garbage? If you love dot net so much, Microsoft is waiting for you with open arms in Visual Studio. We''ve all been hearing for 25 years about how the future of Delphi doesn''t look good, and yet here we still are, better and stronger than ever. One of Delphi''s many strength is in the fact that it''s NOT dot net.
To TMS:
It''s absolutely critical that whenever you introduce new features and new components, you provide clean/simple/working demos on the day of launch, and not months or years later.
Steve
20. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 6:15:57 AM
Keep improving WEB Core & XData. Wilfred Oluoch
21. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 6:16:21 AM
Hi,I suppose that TMS VCL Plugin Framework supports only Windows applications for VCL in its name. Do you think that there would be possible to have something similar for MacOS applications ?
Marian Morzol
22. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 9:35:06 AM
Easier conversion of older VCL and FNC apps into WebCore, especially on the data connections.FNC expansion with a good and integrated report tool (bands), connected to FNC Chart and Dashboard.
Visser Ulco
23. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 9:41:35 AM
Add Web Core to SmartSetup
JOOST VAN RIJSWIJK
24. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 9:50:40 AM
It''s coming soon!
Bruno Fierens
25. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 10:22:42 AM
I''m joining to Michael Leahy.It''s a very good job work on mobile handling permission in an easiest way, read/write directory and more....
Happy 2025
Daniele Fare''
26. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 10:43:06 AM
C++Builder support for XData
Rodrigues Paulo
27. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 1:46:43 PM
XData, the FNC and VCL components are very important to me. It''s good that WebCore also exists, you never know when I''ll need it.
Capota Radu Mircea
28. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 2:06:44 PM
Hello,We will be waiting for inline images support when sending emails with TTMSFNCCloudMicrosoftOutlookMail with impatience.
Laurence LAJOU
29. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 2:08:38 PM
Hello,The support of SFTP transfers in FNC pack.
Laurence LAJOU
30. Tuesday, December 31, 2024 at 5:39:06 PM
Despite I''ve spent "decades" on Windows development, the Modern Delphi is interesting for me as cross-platform development tool mainly.Correspondingly, I''m looking for everything that is marked as "FNC" or related to "FNC" (I have ALL-ACCESS TMS license).
In cross-platform group the most attractive for me is Apple (Mac, iOS) from POV of hardware quality, UI and their eco system for developers comparing to others...
Unfortunately Apple doesn''t read this New Year''s wishes blog :-) and I can''t submit my wish to them: to acquire Delphi, make it Mac and free (just regular 100$ yearly for Dev. license). They would get 1 ml experienced developers in 1 day who will pay back.
Happy New Year!
Kyrylenko Oleg
31. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 3:58:31 PM
Please make the academic packages work with the current Community Edition (Delphi 12.1 Update 1) soon, before Embarcadero moves on to the next Community Edition making everything obsolete again. We only get a 365-day license with each edition, and CE Delphi 12 Athens has been out for a while now. Thank you.
Diamond Lawrence
32. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 5:05:25 PM
I would like to see the capabilities of TMS Smart Setup extended to:1. Handlel all TMS Software products (especially Web Core).
2. Have a "batch" capability to auto-install several products that are listed in a user-editable text file.
3. Be able to auto-generate the above file from an existing setup, thereby allowing easy reinstallation or mirroring of a particular setup onto another RAD Studio instance.
Evans Robert
33. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 7:33:47 PM
@Robert: 1. TMS Web Core is coming to TMS Smart Setup soon. Any other product you miss the most? 2 and 3: this is already supported, as Smart Setup can be 100% used from command-line (hence, automated). For further questions and details, please open a ticket at our Support Center.
Wagner Landgraf
34. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 9:32:15 PM
Adding to what Wagner said, just to have some fun in the 1st of january, I created a small bat that should cover points 2 and 3. You can get it here:https://download.tmssoftware.com/flexcel/samples/smart-backup.zip
You need to run it in the existing setup (point 3), and it will generate a file "smart-restore.bat". Then, you run smart-restore.bat in the machine where you want to duplicate the setup, and it should recreate it. This is indeed something that could be added to smartsetup directly, so you don''t have to download/create a bat file to do it, and also to cover certain scenarios that this bat won''t cover (like for example, using smartsetup to install a component from a git repo). But for the moment, this should work. You can for example put the smart-restore.bat generated file in git, and someone can clone the repo and get the same setup. (but if you put it in git, it might make sense to also put tms.setup.yaml in that repo, and remove the line "echo call :create-tms.config.yaml ^>tms.config.yaml" from the bat, so the file isn''t recreated.
I also agree with wagner that it will be best to discuss this in our support forums, where we can paste code, attach files, and screenshots
Adrian Gallero
35. Wednesday, January 1, 2025 at 10:48:19 PM
-FNC components. Specially the the ribbon needs to be worked on. The TTMSFNCRibbonForm doesn`t behave like a normal window in Windows when minimez or maximized.-Aurelius + xData
-Web Core
Pelletier Martin
36. Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 10:40:30 AM
Would love to see a product like FlexCel for DOCX documents.Mirco Malaguti
Malaguti Mirco
37. Thursday, January 2, 2025 at 2:58:32 PM
Hi,In WEB Core the Master/Detail datasets would be very usefull.
Thanks.
Sándor Brogyanecz
38. Saturday, January 4, 2025 at 2:20:50 PM
FNC: I would like to have horizontal bar charts in FNC charts.
Feder Hans-Hermann
39. Monday, January 6, 2025 at 10:34:29 AM
Maybe biometric fingerprint handling in WEBCore
Sándor Brogyanecz
40. Tuesday, January 7, 2025 at 12:36:40 PM
WEB Core, which includes FNC components and the BIZ components in my mind.So improve WebCore, TMSFNCDataGrid for WEB for client side; Xdata, Sparkle, Aurelius, Sphinx for server logic.
What is missing is a report generator, especially dedicated to the web world;
Miletus for mobile!!! (iOS, Android)
Monterisi Stefano
41. Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 8:27:47 PM
Keep improving Webcore, FNC and the Biz Components and provide CardDAV & CalDAV for FNC Cloud.
roland.kossow
42. Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 9:33:59 PM
Adding a PDF Viewer in FNC would be great
Muñoz Villagrán Ricardo
43. Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 9:47:28 PM
There is TTMSFNCWXPDFViewer in TMS FNC WX Pack
Bruno Fierens
44. Wednesday, January 29, 2025 at 7:55:32 PM
It would be nice to make FNC working with the community version of C++Builder !
jl.karmann
45. Saturday, February 8, 2025 at 9:56:48 AM
Hi,Thank you very much for your hard work.
I couldn''t develop such advanced and sexy app without TMS Software.
Regarding FNC, your are mainly focusing on updating or adding new powerful controls. Which is your core business.
But, there are few examples where you are taking advantage of an existing FNC control to provide added value and significantly reduce the amount of code for us to get the same result.
For example:
- FNCObjectInspector based on FNCTreeView
- FNCKanbanBoard based on FNCTableView
These bring an immediate GUI solution for a specific need.
What about improving such strategy by turning existing controls into solutions.
Let me take one example:
If you look at the Windows 11 Settings Dialog, such hierarchy of various panels and parameters that can be expanded/Collapsed or even showing another page of parameters.
From a simple switch to activate an option to a full page of user preferences.
Today, all modern apps does always have such Settings/Preferences dialog that should be loaded and saved next to the application.
It could be even based on a JSON structure to build dynamically the complete hierarchy of category / groups / Settings without a single line of code or building that at design time in the IDE.
Such solutions could even become a standalone library on top of FNC Controls that brings added values to develop a complete application.
Sorry to be so long
I which you all the best possible year 2025
Bob Baudewyns
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I would like to see components that support mobile projects. Specifically, I need dialog boxes for choosing and opening files on mobile devices. I need something like TFrameStand to organize complete mobile apps and their screens.
Michael Leahy