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New VCL Styles and Style Enhancements in RAD Studio 10 Seattle

In Delphi, C++ Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle, we provide a variety of new VCL styles and VCL style enhancements.   Windows 10 Styles Choose from three built-in Windows 10 styles: Modern Light, Modern Dark and Modern Blue. These styles work great with the new VCL Windows 10 UI controls as well as the existing VCL UI controls. Common Dialog Styling VCL styling now extends to dialogs such as…
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Adding headers to TListView programmatically

During today’s Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle launch webinar, I got a question on how to add headers to TListView programmatically instead of using LiveBindings with a data source. Here is a quick code snippet showing how to programmatically add TListView…
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New FireMonkey Media Library Options in RAD Studio XE8

RAD Studio XE8 provides new FireMonkey Media Library options. This includes the ability to automatically save pictures taken by the device camera (in your iOS and Android applications) to the on-device photo library. Today, I thought I would show you how to save photos taken…
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Creating Custom Multi-Device Preview Devices

In RAD Studio XE8, we introduced the Multi-Device Preview. The Multi-Device Preview provides a design time view of what your application is going to look like on a wide range of devices.  In RAD Studio XE8, you can easily add your own device to the Multi-Device Preview…
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Building Proximity Aware Application with RAD Studio XE8

RAD Studio XE8 provides you with the tools to rapidly design, build, and deploy connected apps that deliver innovative IoT solutions. The new Beacon component makes it easy to add proximity awareness to your applications. Two beacon formats are available: iBeacon and…
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Working with StylesData in your FireUI applications

I have been getting some questions recently on how to identify and access style elements using StylesData. StylesData is defined by the style and different controls can have different elements. To identify and access the style elements in code that you want to change…
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Designing App Navigation with TMultiView

In RAD Studio XE7, we introduced a new smart menu component called TMultiView. With TMultiView, it is really easy to create app navigation that automatically adjusts itself depending on form factor, orientation and target platform using our new behavior services. TMultiView…