Adopt the latest standards
C++ is a great programming language with it’s standards dating from 1998. The C++ standard is not about teaching how to use C++; it is a formal and very detailed technical document intended primarily for people writing C++ compilers and standard library implementation. This allows developers to code knowing that their code will work on other toolchains implementing…
Automate Access To Current And Historical Currency Exchange Rates Via API
April 14, 2021
Currency exchange rates are an interesting financial dataset similar to stock quotes and cryptocurrency datasets. For building solutions like software or a POS system for a currency exchange business, it is a necessary dataset and there are APIs online that give you easy…
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…
RAD Studio 10.4.2 was planned as a feature-focused followup to the quality-focused release of 10.4.1. However, besides delivering some major features we also fixed more issues in 10.4.2 than in the previous release!
This applies as much to Code Insight, or DelphiLSP, as to other parts of Delphi 10.4.2. Let’s have a look at what’s new. First, the features…
Error Insight — now Error…
The linker is a core part of the C++Builder toolchain – after all, it’s the part that collects the compiler’s output and creates your final binary, so it’s hard to understate its importance! – and because it brings the entire application together at once…
Delphi Offers Deeper Third-Party Tool API Integration Than WPF And Electron
March 17, 2021
How do Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron perform compared to each other, and what’s the best way to make an objective comparison? Embarcadero commissioned a whitepaper to investigate the differences between Delphi, WPF .NET Framework, and Electron for building…
A Delphi developer asked how do you change the background color of a FMX (FireMonkey) TEdit ?
As many know, for a VCL TEdit, you could just set the color property of the TEdit, like this:
Edit1.Color := clYellow;
Then at Run-Time, after calling Edit1.Color := clYellow, the Edit1 looks like this:
But, a FMX TEdit does not have a Color property, so how do you do the same for a FMX TEdit?
There are…
Increase Your Coding Experience By Adding Helpful Extensions To Your IDE
February 26, 2021
Developers love arguing and discussing different types of code editors most of the time. Someone says Vim is number one, someone says VSCode cracks everything. These all different code editors have different features and abilities to do tasks easily.
RAD Studio is…
Am I the only one who gets excited about new releases? If you look at the RAD Studio Roadmap you will see a new 10.4.2 release of Sydney is scheduled for the first half of 2021. If you are on Update Subscription then you were invited to the NDA 10.4.2 Hunter beta. Well now…
The RAD Studio IDE has a package manager called GetIt built in which that allows you to browse, download, purchase, and install packages. Packages provide libraries, components, IDE extensions, SDKs, styles, samples, and more. Packages available in the package manager can be browsed on theEmbarcadero GetItsite and installed in the IDE or via a command line. Additionally, the latest…
