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Conectando desde Delphi a un webservice de Prestashop

Author: Emilio PM Prestashop es una aplicación web muy extendida en Europa y que se utiliza para crear comercios electrónicos. Dispone de una funcionalidad para conectar aplicaciones utilizando un servicio web. Existen multitud de páginas webs donde te explican como activar un servicio web en Prestashop, así pues, el primer paso es activarlo y obtener una clave para poder conectarnos. En…
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Variable Item Height with TListView in 10.1 Berlin

During a recent webinar, we received a question on how to create a list in a FireMonkey multi-device application using RAD Studio Berlin where the item height automatically adjusts itself depending on the content. We have a great new demo that shows you how to calculate text…
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Closing the Class Helpers Private Access Loophole

As many of you know, Embarcadero made a change to the Delphi compiler in 10.1 Berlin to close an existing bug that allowed access to private data of any class via a class helper. Developers who were leveraging this hack would need a migration strategy. Private is… Private For quite some time, there was a bug in the Delphi compiler that ended up allowing class helper methods to access private…
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Ribbon Controls in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

Author: John T. Haller A few Delphi and C++Builder developers who moved to 10.1 Berlin are wondering what happened to the VCL Ribbon controls and how to get them. Here is the full story. A Tale of the Fluent UI (or Office UI) Let me start from the beginning, while trying to…
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Introducing the ListView Item Designer in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

In RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, we provide a new ListView Item Designer for FireMonkey applications that you can use to easily design custom ListView layouts. During today’s launch webinar, I showed the new TListView Item Designer in action. TListView provides a fast, scrollable list for your multi-device applications. With TListView, you have access to a number of predefined appearance modes.
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Using the Floating Form Designer in Delphi

The Floating Form Designer is often commented as one of the reasons many developers still love using Delphi 7after almost 14 years. In that time Delphi has moved on a long way,firstly moving to theGalileo(docked) IDE, added unicode,64bit…
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RAD Studio setting the vcl application icon.

Author: Craig Chapman I recently received a question from one of my customers, asking how to set the icon for an application (in this case a VCL application). This is something that I’d understood to be trivial, but when I tried it for myself I learned that in fact…
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Skill Sprint: Using Effects, Animations & Transitions on FireMonkey Components

Author: Developer Skill Sprints Learn to apply Effects, Animations & Transitions on FireMonkey controls. Why Use Animations, Transitions and Effects? Give you user interface life Make application more interactive Keep users attention Use motion to provide meaning Implement Google’s Material Design Skumorphic behavior Less code and better UI performance Add affordance to user…
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