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True Type Font Iconography for Android and iOS Apps

Author: Brian Alexakis Download Project Files Download the project files. How to Deploy a Custom True Type Font First create a new Multi Device Application in either C++ or Object Pascal. Save the project to a folder on your filesystem. From the FontAwesome downloaded archive, extract fontawesome-webfont.ttf from the font-awesome-4.3.0fonts folder to the root of your project folder. Rename…
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3 Cool SQL Server TSQL Snippets for Productivity

Author: Tim DelChiaro Nobody would want to shy away from some help. This is second to human nature and we never try totalk it out explicitly. When at work, if we can surely get help from our colleagues when it comes to driving the deadlines and completing it ahead of…
C++

Finding your Tethered Apps

Author: Vincent P596 RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6 include support for tethering your VCL and FMX apps together. This blog post shows you how to display all of the tethered apps that you can find on your subnet. App Tethering includes two components…
C++

Using Custom Endpoints to create a BaaS enabled Desktop application for sending notifications to your mobile apps

I previously wrote a blog post on how to send notifications via our BaaS (Backend as a Service) support in Delphi to your mobile devices on iOS and Android. This blog post assumes that you followed the steps in my previous blog post and in the referenced docwiki articles. In this post, I thought I would cover how to send notifications from BaaS enabled FireMonkey or VCL Desktop apps to your…
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Delphi

Opening a file with the default program on Windows and Mac

I’ve been using the windows API call ShellExec for years to pass in the file name of a file I want to launch programatically with the default application on Windows; but I am now creating an application for use on Windows and Mac with FireMonkey for the upcoming season of Developer Direct LIVE Mobile Summer School (starting Tuesday 16th July) and I need to implement the same functionality on…
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Delphi

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…