Similar to Windows themes, VCL styles make it easy to radically change the appearance of your VCL applications, giving your application that extra level of polish and professionalism. Thanks to the Per Control VCL Styles introduced in 10.4, a single form can take advantage of multiple styles giving you maximum customization and control. RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder ship a selection of VCL…
Does Delphi make you a better programmer? Is Object Pascal code more readable?
There is an algorithm with a mystery constant that rose to fame in John Carmack’s Quake III Arena C code for quickly estimating the inverse square root of a 32-bit floating-point…
Boost Productivity With The Latest New Packages From Embarcadero GetIt
January 6, 2021
The GetIt Package Manager is the package manager built into the RAD Studio IDE that allows you to browse, download, purchase, and install packages. Packages may provide libraries, components, IDE extensions, and SDKs. Packages available in the package manager can be browsed…
Ultimate Solitaire Collection App Features Over 535 Different Games And Is Built In Delphi
January 1, 2021
BVS Solitaire Collection is the ultimate solitaire collection featuring over 535 different games and it is built in Delphi. This collection features solitaires not found elsewhere according to the developer. Plus you can modify rules of almost any of the included games, thus creating your own solitaire variation. BVS Solitaire Collection gives you a plethora of statistical and scoring screens to…
When FireMonkey introduced the FireUI Preview a few releases back, the application was available in the Google and Apple stores, to simplify the deployment to a device. The same app is also a demo available as source code, but that requires a few configuration steps to be…
With Change Views, you have this patented method to work with that is a lot easier to develop and scale for your customer base. Using InterBase Change Views, you can now identify specifically what deltas have changed at the field level.
Change views are a subscription based…
The title of this blog post may combine two somewhat overly familiar ideas, but it’s highly appropriate for the goals we have set. Learning and teaching Delphi is paramount for our success, and we plan to keep doing more of it in the New Year. Delphi education helps popularize Embarcadero products, of course, but more importantly, it serves our community and your customers. Delphi is…
Rapid SEO Tool from Blumentals Solutions SIA is a search engine optimization and search engine position monitoring software for the desktop that is built in Delphi. According to their site “it designed to ease the task of improving web page position on search results.
Published! - Discovering the BEST Developer Framework through Benchmarking
December 23, 2020
Just in time for Christmas, we’re making good on our promise to bring you a new white paper – Developing the BEST Developer Framework through Benchmarking. This paper examines three frameworks – Delphi, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) with .NET…
Compile 1 Million Lines Of C++ In ~2 Minutes With A 16 Core Ryzen 9 5950x
December 22, 2020
The recently released AMD Ryzen 9 5950x offers 16 cores and 32 threads so let’s see what kind of performance we can get out of a parallel C++ compile with those 32 threads. At the time of this writing the AMD Ryzen 9 5950x has the highest single core CPU Benchmark score at around 3515. C++Builder is a rapid application development tool for building C++ Windows apps. It offers normal…
