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Printing from an Android device using FireMonkey

Author: J T403 Printing from an Android device requires a little bit more setup than in iOS where you simply connect to an AirPrint capable printer (like my Epson XP-400). However, Android printing appears to work with any Wifi printer (or PC connected printer), so its more flexible. Basically, it consists of three steps. First, download and install Google CloudPrint onto your device. Second…
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Clone FireMonkey objects

Author: Vsevolod L1433 I’ve got a task of cloning FireMonkey objects. Let it be “chess”. An object is created as an aggregate in design-time. Look at the picture in the Structure pane. I have made the composite pawn model and start thinking of make 15…
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Setting Text Parameters in FireMonkey

Author: Сергей One of small but rather useful new features of FireMonkey introduced in XE3 version is the FMX.Types.ITextSettings interface. Often we need to change some parameters of an output text for a component, which class is not known a priori. For example, a…
Delphi

Components vs Children in FireMonkey

Author: Jayme Jeffman Filho You have probably iterated through the Components array many many times as a Delphi developer. Consider this simple application: It’s probably no surprise that listing the Components of the form like this… procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var i: Integer; begin Memo2.Lines.Clear; for i := 0 to ComponentCount-1 do …
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Custom FireMonkey "TSimpleTriangle" component

Author: Pawe Gowacki Have you ever written a component in Delphi? Reusable components are the corner-stone of rapid application development and important part of Delphi success on the market. Being able to manipulate an instance of a class at design-time is where Delphi…
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Getting to grips with using FireMonkey Grids

Although there is a huge amount that is the same for Delphi and C++ Builder developers between VCL and FireMonkey, one thing that has changed is the FireMonkey grids. FireMonkey Grid Example After a recent question at an event, I thought I would put a little demo together to…
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FireMonkey Styles for Blinking Button

Author: Eusebio M40205 The problem appeared when discussing “Scalability of enterprise DBMS-targeted systems” (in English on massive demand in comments) with Dmitriy Kouzmenko, Russian expert in InterBase since its origin. Then this occasional topic called more interest, so now I have to give some light to the this. The initial idea was how to make a user press “backup db&#8221…
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Writing a FireMonkey DLL for use with a VCL application.

VCL App calling a FireMonkey DLL We have had a lot of questions on the road show tour about how to mix Fire Monkey and VCL. Although this is not officially supported, a number of blogs have started to appear with ways to do this. One way that is appropriate to add additional…
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Meet The Developer: FontCreator - Erwin Denissen

You can create some truly incredible apps using RAD Studio with Delphi or C++Builder. Apps made with Delphi are superbly robust and work natively on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. No requirement for extra runtimes, dependencies, downloads, or burgeoning frameworks since they are fully compiled, not scripts or wrappers for web apps. In the hands of a skilled developer such as the subject…
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