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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 more. If you’re thinking of a similar method, please, try Clone method. It will help you clone any FireMonkey object, not…
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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…
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YAML and Remote Code Execution

Author: Craig Stuntz YAML’s security risks are in no way limited to Rails or Ruby. YAML documents should be treated as executable code and firewalled accordingly. Deserializing arbitrary types is user-controlled, arbitrary code execution. It’s Not Just Ruby A…
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Faking a placeholder Attribute for an Editable div, and Some CSS Tricks

Author: Craig Stuntz HTML input elements have a placeholder attribute which you can use to show a bit of text to prompt the end user. Although you can make an editable div by using the contenteditable attribute, it will not support the placeholder attribute. I needed to do both, so I ended up reinventing the placeholder attribute for editable divs. Here’s how I did it. I wanted the…
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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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Installing Sonar for Delphi

Author: Miguel Angel Oliver On15th of November the HTML5 Builder QA Team was in the VLCTesting where welearned very good experiences and shared knowledge, amongst this was the software Sonar,Right now in HTML5 Builder we are not using that tool but we…
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Product or License Validation Error

Author: Andreas O1387 If you ever see the error “Product or License Validation Error” pop up, the first thing you should do is Google the exact error message. If you do so, you will find the first hit to be exactly what you want – Starting RAD Studio…
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ORM Frameworks for Delphi...

I have just returned from myRAD Studio XE3 World Tour stops in Europe. It was great to see so many young and old developers in London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Heidelberg. In two cities I was asked whether there were any Object Relational Mapping solutions for Delphi. There are two Delphi ORM(s) that I know about: TMS Software’s TMS Aurelius – commercial ORM.
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2024 Embarcadero Product Releases Roundup & Industry Trends

As 2024 comes to a close, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on some of our Embarcadero product releases in 2024, industry trends, and thank you, our customers, for your continued support of our…

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