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 help understand some of the changes that come with the new style grid in FireMonkey.
Having come from a VCL background and…
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…
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…
Reading and writing files from an iOS FireMonkey application
October 4, 2011
Author: dragonhome
Here’s an example of how you can read and write files in your iOS FireMonkey application.
Enjoy!
{$IFDEF FPC}
var
content : NSString;
{$ENDIF}
{$IFDEF FPC}
function MyFileName : NSString;
var
paths : NSArray;
fileName : NSString;
begin
paths := NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, True);
fileName :=…
LiveBindings: Fill a TListBox from a TClientDataSet at design time
September 30, 2011
Author: Jim T1392
TBindList can iterate throughthe records in a TClientDataSet and fill a TListBox. Here is how toconfigure TBindListin the designer.
Drop a TClientDataSet and a TDataSource on a form. Load some data into the dataset such as…
Author: Tóth Erik
Delphi XE2 is probably the most significant release since Delphi 1. The number of new features is amazing and probably the biggest, most important one is FireMonkey – a brand new business application development platform that let you use Delphi…
Author: Craig Stuntz
I helped another developer debug an interesting problem this morning. Let’s see if you can spot the problem. The code in question looked something like this simplified version containing only enough code to show the problem:
public void Execute()
{
DoStuff(); // breakpoint 1
}
public IEnumerable<Coordinate> DoStuff()
{
…
How to start a programming career with Delphi XE and C++Builder XE Starter Editions
February 4, 2011
Over the years, one of the recurring conversations has been around how to get started in computer programming, what language to learn first and how to prepare for a career. There have been numerous articles, blog posts, conference talks, videos, white papers and…
Author: Michael K22532
JSON support has been introduced in Delphi 2010 as a part of DBExpress database driver architecture, but of course JSON support is not limited to just database applications. JSON is similar to XML as both are text-based data interchange formats.
Delphi…
Author: Craig Stuntz
In an application which uses the Entity Framework, you may see the following error at runtime:
MetadataException: Unable to load the specified metadata resource
The cause of this error is a missing or malformed Entity Framework connection string. In particular, the cause of this error is the metadata parameter of the connection string. Let’s examine this more…
