C++

Create App Store ready apps with Community Edition

Start building visually stunning multi-device applications right away with these great tools accessible from the IDE’s Welcome Page. TIP: If you accidentally close the Welcome Page, you can reopen it by going to View > Welcome Page. This article covers the following: Guided Tour in the IDE Code Samples and Mobile Snippets Stunning, ready-to-use Application…
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C++

FireDAC & ODBC for Paradox and dBase tables.

I continue to get customer requests for options to migrate legacy RAD Studio, Delphi or C++ Builder applications using the Borland Database Engine (BDE) with Paradox and/or dBase files. With the current versions of RAD Studio, you can use theFireDAC ODBC bridge driver to get to Paradox and dBase tables. This is important if you want to…
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C++

C++ Boot Camp: Game Development

Author: Aidan K7359 11-August-2016 / Day 4 of C++ Boot Camp is C++ Game Development hosted by Eli M., MVP, Developer and Entrepreneur from FMXExpress.com Four different games with classic game mechanics will be demonstrated. We will be also be covering topics such as App…
Delphi

Using TImageList with TListView in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

If one of the classic appearances is used, the TListViewItem.ImageIndex property can be set. This is illustrated on the first Tab. Likewise, a LiveBindings link can be drawn directly to an Item.ImageIndex field for a similar effect. When using a dynamic appearance, there can be more than one image and TListView performs no implicit actions on the items. It would be possible to hook up an…
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News

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…
C++

Adding headers to TListView programmatically

During today’s Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle launch webinar, I got a question on how to add headers to TListView programmatically instead of using LiveBindings with a data source. Here is a quick code snippet showing how to programmatically add TListView headers. procedure TListViewHeaders.FormCreate(Sender: TObject); var Group, Item: Integer; begin for Group in [1..4]…
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