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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 keep the story short. The Ribbon VCL controls offer an implementation, natively done in the VCL with no external…
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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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Migrating legacy C++ Builder Apps to C++ Builder 10 Seattle

Migration Considerations – Unicode For the most part, your older C++ Builder source code and forms will import, compile, link and execute in current C++ Builder 10 Seattle, but you may need to make Unicode changes, and re-build 3rd party libraries, if these apply: Any libraries that were built with an older version of C++ Builder will need to be recompiled in order to be used by a…
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