As part of my recent DelphiCon 2021 session, Multi-Platform Explorations using Delphi, FMX, Feeds, REST and More, my example code needed to use IFDEFs for some of the uses statements, variable definitions and code. This blog post contains an example of the use of defines when compiling for Windows (Win32/Win64), macOS, iOS and Android platforms. I also include screen shots of the sample output on…
I’ve built a C++Builder app that pulls development related news and posts from more than 50 developer focused RSS news feeds. From time to time, I’ll highlight some of the articles that piqued my interest.
Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean…
This blog post contains information, tools and links that I will discuss and demo during today’s TCoffeeAndCode webinar on Data Visualization.
David I’s DataViz sample code zip file (576kb)
What Inspired My Data Vizualization Journey – The Joy of Stats /…
ISOCpp.org ran a C++ developer survey “lite” for the past week. You can find the PDF survey results on the site at https://isocpp.org/blog/2021/04/results-summary-2021-annual-cpp-developer-survey-lite
More than 1800 C++ developers responded to the survey. Here are a few items that I pulled out of the PDF results.
Almost 90% of respondents use C++ for work.
Over 50% of developers have…
In the March 2021 edition of the Communications of the ACM there is an article, by Nicklaus Wirth, about the 50th anniversary of Nicklaus Wirth’s Pascal. What started at ETH Zurich (in 1970) was publicized in the article “The programming language pascal” by…
Building a C++ VCL Customer/Sales Master/Detail/Charting Application with 1 Line of Code
October 22, 2020
You may have read or heard about No Code and Low Code application development using systems, languages and run times. Atanas Popov, GM of Embarcadero Technology, recently blogged about low code development. “These days low-code development is en vogue. Various research…
Here was my answer 😀
Create a New | C++Builder VCL Windows application. On the form add TPanel, TButton, TEdit and TMemo components. Put the TButton and TEdit into the TPanel. Set TPanel align property to AlTop. Set the TMemo align property to alClient.
FindFirst’s declaration in SysUtils.hpp is:
extern DELPHI_PACKAGE int __fastcall FindFirst(const System::UnicodeString Path…
Using C++17 Algorithms Library Parallel Sorting with C++Builder 10.4 Sydney for Win32 and Win64
August 17, 2020
C++Builder 10.4 Sydney supports the ISO C++17 standard in the Clang based compilers for Win32 and Win64. Part of the C++17 standard includes the Algorithms library that provides execution policies to support parallel operations. Below you will find a simple VCL example…
There have been several questions on forums and Stack Overflow about ISO C++ language support in the most recent release of C++Builder. This post includes links and information about C++Builder compilers that are built on top of the Clang open source compilers.
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There are so many great new features in 10.4 Sydney, but when asked for a top five I had to prune my list a lot. Here are my top five favorite new features in RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney.
1) The new TEdgeBrowser component is a great advance for building Windows apps. Even better is the update to the TWebBrowser component that give developers flexibility to select which browser engine you want to use…
