While it might be a hot summer where you live, in the southern hemisphere it is opposite season. For those developers who are sweating it out in the north, here are some recent cool Embarcadero Technologies developer tools blog postings from our community members.
- TMS FireMonkey cross-platform grid - http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/blog.asp?post=230
- Using And Understanding The TDictionary (Hash Table) Class In Delphi - http://delphi.about.com/b/2012/07/13/using-and-understanding-the-tdictionary-hash-table-class-in-delphi.htm
- Kindle edition of Chris Rollinston’s "Delphi XE2 Foundations" eBook - http://delphihaven.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/minor-update-to-delphi-xe2-foundations-ebook/
- VCL to FireMonkey migration made easy! – New free workshop and converter tool - http://blogs.embarcadero.com/amannarino/2012/07/18/delphi-and-cbuilder-developer-workshop-migrating-vcl-applications-to-firemonkey/
- Add A Splash Screen To Your Delphi Application - http://delphi.about.com/b/2012/07/19/delphi-splash-screen.htm
- Creating a simple PDF viewer for OS X using FMX and the Core Graphics API - http://delphihaven.wordpress.com/2012/07/12/osx-pdf-viewer/
- Help Update #6 for Delphi and C++Builder XE2 - http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Readme_-_Help_Update_6_for_Delphi_and_C%2B%2BBuilder_XE2
- OmniThreadLibrary Book/Wiki - http://otl.17slon.com/book/doku.php, Buy the book - http://www.thedelphigeek.com/2012/06/parallel-programming-with.html
- Embarcadero - Clang and LLVM - http://robstechcorner.blogspot.com/2012/07/embarcadero-clang-and-llvm.html
Have a great summer/winter wherever you program!
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What about the performance and others issues on Firemonkey that hasn’t been fixed so far.
Is embarcadero going to release XE3 and let us XE2 users with a unfinished product? Please don’t tell me about maintenance as excuse to have the problem fixed.
Team is working on a bunch of enhancements and improvements. Are there specific QC numbers that I should raise up to the team?
Will RightToLeft functionality be available in FMX? If so, when?
David,
Could you please take a look at http://qc.embarcadero.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=107177 ? It seems to be a showstopper for me as a component developer.
The migration path from VCL to FMX is very hard. A lot of "low level" properties and events from the VCL don’t exist in FMX. E.g. OnShow, OnKeyDown, IsChecked instead of Checked, TAction is missing and so on. I know, FMX is not VCL but I see no reason why that is missing. Our existing VCL code needs tons of ifdefs to workaround that.
Peter - join Anders Ohlsson next wednesday for his vcl to fmx webinar. Also try Mida Converter free Embarcadero edition to do the first work.
http://forms.embarcadero.com/forms/AMUSCA1207VCLFireMonkeyWebinar7-25
Mike I’m follow your concern.
What are you guys at Embarcadero doing? I bought XE2 and Firemonkey is a alpha, bugs everywhere, even with 5 updates.
Embarcadero is sending invites to migration webinar to sell. Why I will migrate my VCL code to something that is totally brooked and in alpha stage.
I won’t pay another upgrade to have bug fixes, embarcadero should give us XE2 customers a FREE upgrade.
Chris - thanks for posting. If you have a list of FM things that we have not fixed yet, I will check the Quality Central (QC) postings. I am building all types of FireMonkey applications including examples for my 9 lesson "Getting Started" series of classes. We also have many other satisfied developers building real applications using FireMonkey on Windows and Mac. I would love to hear more specifics - you can choose to post comments here and/or send me an email to davidi at embarcadero dot com.
Thanks for ignoring my question posted three days ago.
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Mowaffa - sorry, did not look back far enough in the comment thread to see you note. Right to Left support is on the roadmap for FireMonkey. I don’t know when it will appear but it along with accessibility (sight impaired) support are both on the list to be supported. Keep the specific suggestions for FireMonkey enhancements coming and we will forward them to Product Management and R&D. Thanks.
Mowaffa - one comment. You can set Bidi on a FM form to bdRightToLeft and visual components on the form will be right to left - like Tlabel, TEdit. I noticed that the Form caption itself is not right to left. On VCL - Bidi right to left also does the form caption. Will note this with R&D.
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