In the coming 10.3 release of RAD Studio, we are adding support for Microsoft Per Monitor v2 mode available in recent releases of Windows 10.
Supporting multiple monitors with different resolutions in Windows applications, including VCL ones, is often fairly complex. One of the issues faced in the past was that asking for the size of platform elements with Windows APIs like…
We had a lot of great entries in ourRAD Studio 10.3 Rio t-shirt design contest. The top 10 most popular designers,based on community vote, and 10 random voters are winning a shirt with the design we selected from the top designs. Here are the top 3 designs based…
In RAD Studio 10.3, we’re making a number of great improvements to the user interface and usability. Concretely, that’s not just looks: we are carefully making improvements in how to interact with the IDE. Last week, we looked at changes in the main window, where it is…
Beside inline variable declarations, Delphi 10.3 is going to offer another new Object Pascal language extension, custom managed records
Beside inline variable declaration, as explained in my recent blog post, the coming 10.3 version of Delphi will have another relevant addition to the Delphi language, namely the ability to define code to be executed when records are first initialized…
Before 10.3 Rio, you couldn’t put other controls on top of a platform-native control like TWebBrowser or TMediaPlayer, The stacking of controls is referred to as Z-Order. This was especially annoying when used with the TMultiView (one of my favorite controls)…
In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons.
In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a number of further UI upgrades we’re…
On October 17, I did an InterBase webinar on using Change Views to simplify data change tracking. Change Views allows you to reduce your network traffic, keep mobile data costs down and speed up your development time by syncing only the changes you subscribe to.
As your database scales, the data tracking hurdles get larger and require complex solutions, triggers, timestamp tables and more.
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What is AppAnalytics?
A few years ago, Embarcadero introduced the AppAnalytics technology, a simple and effective way to add in-app analytics to VCL and FMX applications using ready-to-use components and a paid SaaS offering for the AppAnalytics backend.
Since introducing…
I’m a big proponent of practical, usable UIs that are easy to understand and pleasant to look at. As an ongoing series,there are a number of blogs postson UI design.
How To Design a Great UI
Apractical approach to taking a mockup or first cut of aUI, and improving it.
Part 1looked at some basic principles of UI design, a typical UI design…
