Conectando desde Delphi a un webservice de Prestashop
June 15, 2016
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…
Delphi Tip – FMX Update a progress bar within work loop.
June 14, 2016
Author: Craig Chapman
Your application must do some work which blocks the main thread, and your progress indicator does not update until the job is done. Under windows you might have introduced “Application.ProcessMessages()” but this is not cross platform and can cause…
Variable Item Height with TListView in 10.1 Berlin
June 9, 2016
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…
Closing the Class Helpers Private Access Loophole
June 8, 2016
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…
Ribbon Controls in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin
May 9, 2016
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…
Using the Floating Form Designer in Delphi
April 19, 2016
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…