Quality Release
C++Builder 10.4.2 brings some great features we believe will really help you — the biggest being ‘split DWARF’, a way to reduce memory usage in the linker by removing debug information. If you have projects that push the linker’s limits, check it out: it may solve your problems (see this blog post.) However, RAD Studio 10.4.2 overall was also very much a ‘quality…
C++ has a wide ecosystem. One of our key goals with C++Builder is to ensure you can take advantage of the libraries other C++ developers write. With each release we’ve been working on the RTL and STL to ensure it is of a high quality and has great compatibility –…
TwineCompile is an addon for C++Builder that is currently in GetIt for free to update subscription customers, for all editions, including Pro. Let’s see how well it works with real-world projects.
TwineCompile speeds up C++Builder compile time significantly. To test…
Advanced code editor markup, call stack UI, and multithreaded debugging tools — in a new plugin for RAD Studio now freely available.
We’re very pleased to announce a new IDE extension available today for RAD Studio 10.4.1, created by the same author as the popular Bookmarks and Navigator plugins, Parnassus. If you’re reading this, it’s already available in GetIt for anyone with Update…
We’ve just released a patch for C++Builder 10.4.1 which affects using components written in C++ in the form designer. This patch addresses the following issue:
Event handlers were not always generated in the IDE with a compatible method signature to the event…
RAD Studio 10.4.1 is a quality-focused release, and this goes for the IDE! We’ve addressed many items including some very commonly requested changes; read more below.
A ‘quality-focused release’ means one where we introduce very few new features, and focus 95% of…
RAD Studio has a great ecosystem of third party vendors, providing both components and IDE plugins, software that lives within the IDE itself. In RAD Studio 10.4.1, we made some changes to our docked windows support (a docked window is a pane like the Structure, Projects or Palette views.) This change can create issues with IDE plugins that use their own custom docked windows.
One example…
Delphi 10.4.1 is a quality-focused release, and this goes for code completion too! As well as helping you mimic classic code completion behaviour, we’ve fixed and tweaked many items.
When RAD Studio 10.4 was released, we redesigned Code Insight. While old…
The C++Builder linker will warn you when you mix object files linked with classic and clang together, helping you avoid linker or runtime errors.
Today in 2020, we recommend using the modern Clang compilers, especially with the work we’ve been doing for Win64…
David Millington (Senior Product Manager), Atanas Popov (General Manager, Developer Tools), Kyle Wheeler (General Manager, C++)
Over the past year, we have had many customers ask about our plans to continue cross-platform multi-device support in C++Builder. We’d like to provide an update on our plans.
Platform Overview
We prioritized VCL work for C++Builder to FMX, which puts us behind on our…
