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 dimensions and how to dynamically adjust the item height in a ListView so that the text fits inside.
When ListView items are…
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……
Author: Mike F55022
If you purchase Delphi, C++Builder or RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, you get access to the premium style packs for both VCL and FireMonkey that are part of our bonus pack. New in the 10.1 Berlin style packs is the addition of a dark copper style for both VCL and…
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 keep the story short. The Ribbon VCL controls offer an implementation, natively done in the VCL with no external…
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…
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…
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…
Skill Sprint: Saving and Retrieving Settings Using SaveState
January 12, 2016
Author: Developer Skill Sprints
Introduction to “SaveState”
Persist form & app state between sessions
On mobile devices, background apps may be terminated for memory
Default saves state to transient / temporary storage
Also option to save to persistent…
Skill Sprint: Using Android Intents for Inter App Communication
November 30, 2015
Author: Developer Skill Sprints
Skill Sprint Replay – Delphi/Object Pascal
Using Android Intents with Object Pascal / Delphi 10 Seattle
Delphi/Object Pascal Learning Resources
DocWiki
docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/FMX.Platform.IFMXApplicationEventService
docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/System.Messaging.TMessageManager
Android Intent…
