Although there is a huge amount that is the same for Delphi and C++ Builder developers between VCL and FireMonkey, one thing that has changed is the FireMonkey grids.
FireMonkey Grid Example
After a recent question at an event, I thought I would put a little demo together to help understand some of the changes that come with the new style grid in FireMonkey.
Having come from a VCL background and…
VCL App calling a FireMonkey DLL
We have had a lot of questions on the road show tour about how to mix Fire Monkey and VCL. Although this is not officially supported, a number of blogs have started to appear with ways to do this.
One way that is appropriate to add additional…
Reading and writing files from an iOS FireMonkey application
October 4, 2011
Author: dragonhome
Here’s an example of how you can read and write files in your iOS FireMonkey application.
Enjoy!
{$IFDEF FPC}
var
content : NSString;
{$ENDIF}
{$IFDEF FPC}
function MyFileName : NSString;
var
paths : NSArray;
fileName : NSString;
begin
paths :=…
LiveBindings: Fill a TListBox from a TClientDataSet at design time
September 30, 2011
Author: Jim T1392
TBindList can iterate throughthe records in a TClientDataSet and fill a TListBox. Here is how toconfigure TBindListin the designer.
Drop a TClientDataSet and a TDataSource on a form. Load some data into the dataset such as biolife.xml (Right click ClientDataSet1, choose “Load from MyBase table…”, browse to thesample data…
Author: Tóth Erik
Delphi XE2 is probably the most significant release since Delphi 1. The number of new features is amazing and probably the biggest, most important one is FireMonkey – a brand new business application development platform that let you use Delphi…
Author: Michael K22532
JSON support has been introduced in Delphi 2010 as a part of DBExpress database driver architecture, but of course JSON support is not limited to just database applications. JSON is similar to XML as both are text-based data interchange formats.
Delphi…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
it is not a big discovery that all applications are running in the environment provided by the underlying operating system. Delphi is well-known for its rapid application development capabilities. The latest version of Delphi – Delphi 2010 – is the first release to support Windows 7, with all its latest and hottest additions including touch, multi-touch, gesturing…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
In my previous post “Boian’s TBitmap Visualizer and converting to grayscale” I have described an algorithm for converting arbitrary TBitmap instances to gray using a selected formula. The problem is with the performance of the code that…
Author: Allen
It seems that my previous post about FreeAndNil sparked a little controversy. Some of you jumped right on board and flat agreed with my assertion. Others took a very defensive approach. Still others, kept an “arms-length” view. Actually, the whole…
Author: Sinisa P29531
In my previous post I have translated Windows 7 SDK Direct2D “Advanced Geometries” examplefrom C++ to Delphi 2010 code. That was a lot of fun, so I have decided to continue the adventure in the realm of Direct2D programming and this timeconverted one of the DirectWrite examples – DirectWrite sample “Hello World”.
Delphi 2010 Hello…
