HackCAD is end-user customizable!

By building scripting support into your applications, you can provide a high degree of configurability, flexibility and automation control in your applications.

• It allows modification of the application behaviour without needing to update the full application. Just sending a new small script file is sufficient.
• It allows you to create and debug scripts and forms at runtime in an Delphi-like Integrated Development Environment.
• End users can add totally new functionality to an application by binding application logic with COM servers through scripting.
• Different end user specific rules can be put in scripts allowing to maintain a single application for different uses
• And much more ...

Scripter supports pseudo-compiled scripts, making time critical script routines even faster.

Feature details

• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) allow creating script projects at runtime with multiple cross-language scripts (Basic and Pascal) and forms
• Visual form designer and Object inspector at runtime
• Integrated and automatic debugging system in the IDE, including breakpoints, watch viewer, trace into libraries, etc.
• Component palette in both Delphi 7 and Delphi 2007 styles
• Integrated syntax highlight memo with automatic code completion
• Delphi 2007-like filtering system in Tool Palette
• Helper dialogs in IDE like Alignment, Size, Designer options, among others
• Events allow saving/loading scripts and forms to/from database
• Run-time Pascal or Basic language interpreter
• Cross-language scripter component allows calls to Basic scripts from Pascal scripts and vice-versa
• Ability to load Delphi dfm forms and run them
• Access any Delphi object in scripts, including properties and methods!
• Supports try..except and try..finally blocks in script
• Allows reading/writing of Delphi variables and constants in script
• Allows access (reading/writing) script variables from Delphi code
• You can build (from Delphi code) your own classes, with properties and methods, to be used in script
• Most of Delphi system procedures (conversion, date, formatting, string-manipulation) are already included (IntToStr, FormatDateTime, Copy, Delete, etc.)
• You can add your own custom functions, using AddFunction method
• You can save/load compiled code, so you don't need to recompile source code every time you want to execute it
• Script libraries
• Thread-safe scripter engine
• COM support
• Support for calling DLL functions
• Debugging capabilities (breakpoint, step into, run to cursor, pause, halt ...)

Screenshots

Debugging a form script in the IDE

Using the filter in the Tool Palette

Code completion shows properties and components of the form

Debugging scripts from a FireMonkey application on macOS

Dynamic script generated form in a FireMonkey application

Demo overview

Following demos are provided for both the Pascal and Basic scripter: