As I mentioned two weeks ago, in the occasion of Delphi’s 25th anniversary I decided to go back to the roots and publish a book introducing the Delphi IDE based on content of my old Mastering Delphi volumes with additional material covering more recent changes. The ebook is fully edited for version 10.3 of Delphi.
Notice that the focus in not on developers with many years of experience with…
Navuu – Cool Apps Selection
Today’s CoolApps selection is Navuu, from GK Consulting. Navuu is a location service that users can use to send and share their location precisely and instantly to their chosen contacts. It’s a highly integrated and feature-dense…
An issue in Androidapi.Sensor.pas referring to symbols introduced in SDK version 26 will cause an linking error when your app references SDK version 22
If you are building Android applications with C++Builder 10.3.3, you may encounter an error [ldandroid Error]…
Issue with localized compilers in RAD Studio and C++Builder 10.3.3
February 25, 2020
The localized versions of the C++Builder 10.3.3 C++ compilers are not up to date.
We’ve identified an issue in RAD Studio and C++Builder 10.3.3 regarding the localized versions of the C++ compilers.
Background
In the past, we translated the compiler error messages, aiming to assist developers in non-English countries to understand compiler hints, warnings and errors. To do this, we shipped…
So far I have 2 videos for Delphi 25th celebration (10 days ago) published, plus the one of the webinar with the early product architects I was involved with. There is another video pending to get out (I’ll update this blog post when done).
The first is a summary of my…
To continue the #Delphi25th Birthday celebration, we have a new FireMonkey multi-device style available for download that is perfect for developers looking to apply a custom light theme to their apps.
Use the Material Patterns Blue style to give your FMX apps a custom…
When it comes to choosing the right database to support your application it can feel like a daunting task. To make life easier, here are a few topics to consider helping you pick the right database for you and your customers.
Topic
Notes
Look at Total Cost of Ownership
Up front license cost
Ongoing support costs
Daily administration costs
Development costs
Do the database and pricing…
To continue the #Delphi25th Birthday celebration, we have a new VCL Windows style available for download that’s perfect for your modern Windows applications.
Use the new Material Patterns Blue Windows theme to give your existing or new VCL Windows applications a…
Today’s CoolApps selection is IcoFX, from IcoFX Software. IcoFX is an award winning professional icon and cursor editor for Windows. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing that packs a ton of features into a user-friendly package. I love…
On February 14, 1995, Delphi saw the day of Light! Wow!
When we think of 25 years, we think of big monumental or mega-moments that give us a chance to step-back and reflect over what has happened so far. Now I could start writing out a list of all the amazing things that I can do with Delphi like build fast native applications that are easy to understand, let me connect to and query my back-end in…
