Can you name famous, successful applications, applications in development, future applications, that are developed with Delphi? The kind of applications that you use everyday is encouraged.
Some of I know:
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I'm not very interested in listing of applications taken from Google. Just the kind of apps that you really find useful and are fond of. (and of course are programmed with Delphi :))
See Products Developed with Delphi
Although the only one I use is Spyboy S&D and Ad-Aware.
Fast list of my head:
KMPlayer, a beautiful, lightweight media player that will play every media file type I have ever come across, either with its own or external codecs, has more options and features than you could shake a stick at. And its free.
http://www.kmplayer.com/
http://kmplayer.en.softonic.com/
The ones I'm using frequently:
Of the other applications I use, most are written with Visual C++/MFC; very few of them are written using C++/Qt|wxWidgets|GTK, .NET/WinForms or Java/Swing|SWT, and some with custom tooling. Of all these, the VC/MFC ones are the most stable, but the least flexible applications. The Java application (NetBeans :) ) is the most flexible one, but it always feels sluggish, and it often runs out of memory. The Delphi applications usually are in between - flexible, fast, almost stable to stable, doing their job well. And regarding all those apps written with other UI toolkits: I often wish they had used the VCL instead :(
In addition to Larry's link, here's a list of products made with C++ Builder. The most prominent one for me was WinRAR. Please feel free to update the list.
Look here for some insight in to how to spot Delphi and C++ Builder applications.
Note that the latest versions of UPX hide certain resources, which can complicate things a little.
While not in Delphi itself, of course Free Pascal and Lazarus (and all the little stuff in their projects) prove the Delphi concepts and their portability
This because they are written in themselves, which is roughly based on Delphi principles
Many apps in these lists are unknown to me, but there are many well-known apps in non-English countries that have been made in Delphi, like homebanking systems, accounting systems etc. One such example is http://www.summarum.dk/ In my own field, medical software, I also know a long range of successful apps that were made using Delphi.
SpySweeper from Webroot is written in Delphi, so is their Window Washer product. Some parts of their new internet security suite are still written in Delphi as well.
A significant number of television networks around the globe run on Delphi and staff use this software every day.
Most of these products are developed by Harris.com and include H-Class Vision (Program Planning), Landmark (Airtime Sales), ADC (Broadcast Automation), Reports (BI). Plus, MTV down-under runs almost exclusively (fully automated) using Delphi software for device control and on-screen graphics generation and automation.
There is a really good chance that no matter what country you live in, you'll be watching TV brought to you by a Delphi application. Why? Well it makes great software that runs in real-time, can control a wide range of devices and can maintain reliable up-time.
All Just Great Software products are developed with Delphi. The most talked-about on stackoverflow.com is RegexBuddy. Present products are developed with Delphi 2007. Upcoming products are being developed with Delphi 2010. I not only use most of them every day, they've been my only source of income for almost a decade.
Hello.
You can search applications in your PC made in Delphi searhing a "Magic Number" present in all Delphi applications.
It's explained here.
You can try with this test application (source or Binary) to searh this number in the application in your PC. It's a simple code made by Seoane that use this:
const
BorlandMagicTimeStamp = $2A425E19;
Regards.
A little esoteric perhaps, but Altium's Designer suite (a CAE tool for electronic systems) is one of the best in it's class (... and no, I don't work for them!).
Various utilities that shipped with Microsoft Visual BASIC 4.
I can't remember which ones it's been too long but we thout it was funny ;)
I just found an application with many awards, developed in the 90s - SuperMemo
If you want to see many of the applications on your computer that were developed with Delphi (and you might not realize that some of them are), then just run the great little program called Curioso that Neftali supplied in his answer to this question.
It will give you a list that looks like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 2\BC2.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 2\BCQC.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 2\unins000.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Beyond Compare 3\unins000.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\CA VMN Anti-Spyware\CA_VMN_antispyware.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\Help\Doc\H2Reg.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeGear\RAD Studio\6.0\RaveReports\unins000.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Borland Shared\BDE\bdeadmin.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\EurekaLog 6\Exe Demos\Delphi\GUI.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\EurekaLog 6\Process.exe
C:\Program Files (x86)\EurekaLog 6\unins000.exe
Antares11, multimedia viewer www.orbitaldis.com INDLINE IM, www.indline.com
Everything I build for Honeywell... from CRM's, CMS's, Knowledge Management Systems, Testing and Certification Servers, NNTP Server, Skills Assessment, Data Migration Tools, and much more....
My app, ClipMate (the first windows clipboard extender), was originally developed in Turbo Pascal for Windows back in 1991, and has moved through Delphi 1,2, 3, 5, 7, 2007, and is now porting to D2009.
Last time I checked Catraxx and its sister programs (CatVids, BookCat, SoftCat and StampCat) are written in Delphi - http://www.fnprg.com
I don't know how "successful" those are, but judged by the forums and how long Catraxx's been around (I first bought it in 1999 and it wasn't the first version), I assume they're enjoying some success. All updated regularly.
The entire R:Base product line is built in Delphi (all the UI and front-end components. The actual database engine is C).
This is not a Desktop application, but rather a web application: www.embeddedanalytics.com - it uses TWebModule and TeeCharts.