DesktopCast is a sample application with a client-server architecture where a client application can connect to a server application and receive a screenshot taken by the server application once or every 5 seconds using app tethering. The server application is a VCL application, and the client application is available both as a VCL application and as a FireMonkey application.
You can find…
The C++Builder linker will warn you when you mix object files linked with classic and clang together, helping you avoid linker or runtime errors.
Today in 2020, we recommend using the modern Clang compilers, especially with the work we’ve been doing for Win64…
Updated Version of IBLite 2020 and IBToGo 2020 in GetIt
August 6, 2020
There is an updated version of the embedded InterBase for RAD Studio, available in the GetIt package manager.
RAD Studio 10.4 shipped with InterBase 2020 Update 1 embedded versions. IBLite and IBToGo are technically the same binary with different features —…
Before RAD Studio 10.4, the default of transaction isolation option for FireDAc connections wasread committed. That is TFDConnection.TxOptions.Isolation was xiReadCommitted. This was the value set for the component, and being the default it wasn’t send to the database. FireDAC just assumed the default value in its configuration was the default of the database and it did not explicitly…
Ignore Changes with Custom Managed Records
August 5, 2020
Handling the OnChange event handler on a TEdit is great until you programmatically change the text and trigger your OnChange event handler again. It gets really fun if you have two TEdit boxes that update each other in their OnChange event handler. I was reading Automate…
8 Delphi Success Stories Across Windows And Mobile
August 4, 2020
ArtGen
Applications created with Delphi/Pascal are primarily used in the fields of science and technology as well as in business. The development environment is seldom used to create art. With ArtGen, programmer and artist Volker Diefenbach has managed to create a…
RAD Studio 10.4 Patches
August 4, 2020
We have released three patches for RAD Studio 10.4. They can be found in the GetIt Package Manager in the IDE or on the IDE Welcome Page and can also separately be downloaded through the new download portal or CodeCentral.
The patches are designed to be installed in sequence, on top of an existing 10.4 installation.
RAD Studio 10.4 Patch 1: Missing Files and C++ DebuggingFor more details…
C++Builder and Platforms Support
August 4, 2020
David Millington (Senior Product Manager), Atanas Popov (General Manager, Developer Tools), Kyle Wheeler (General Manager, C++)
Over the past year, we have had many customers ask about our plans to continue cross-platform multi-device support in C++Builder. We’d like to…
Easy Powerful InstantObjects for Delphi on Windows
July 31, 2020
InstantObjects is a suite of Open Source components for Delphi, an Object Persistent Framework (OPF) maintained by Ethea for the design and implementation of modern applications. With InstantObjects, object-oriented programming is pushed to the highest levels, allowing a…
Use Doc-O-Matic to effortlessly and reliably create source code and API documentation and author general purpose documentation in a multitude of formats and styles in the shortest possible time. Doc-O-Matic takes source code and comments, adds conceptual topics and external input and produces documentation from it. With its single-source approach, Doc-O-Matic generates many different kinds of…