OK, so you’ve written something brilliant, The Next Big Thing. You’re taking a modern approach. You’ve read up – or watched – our series on Fluent UI and maybe even applied a few visual things like the neo-skeuomorphism we learned about at the Desktop First conference.
Perhaps you’ve applied some VCL themes to your app and integrated the ability to detect Windows 10 dark…
Author: John T. Haller
A few Delphi and C++Builder developers who moved to 10.1 Berlin are wondering what happened to the VCL Ribbon controls and how to get them. Here is the full story.
A Tale of the Fluent UI (or Office UI)
Let me start from the beginning, while trying to…
It seemed like many people thought Windows 7 was great and Microsoft should stop there. However, Microsoft recognized that what people thought of as their primary computing device was changing. Apple’s iPad and the inexorable rise of the mobile phone meant people were…
The Windows operating system is the most used desktop operating system in the World. Windows 11 launched with a substantial firestorm of publicity from Microsoft. With the new innovations such as the excellent Windows Subsystem For Linux (WSL) there seems to be a large uptick in interest from coders looking to Windows program development. Microsoft have consolidated their position as the dominant…
Reading is an essential skill for Windows application development. Development is a nebulous and constantly expanding subject and I’ve noticed that the most successful coders, project managers and designers are often readers with a voracious appetite for consuming…
Delphi offers a modern, robust & enterprise-grade UI developer environment with Visual Component Library (VCL) for Windows only and FireMonkey (FMX) for cross-platform development. Delphi VCL offers the latest features and modern UI controls for your Windows app…
Native thumbnail and preview functionality for your software: ShellBrowser Delphi Components
June 8, 2021
The pain of finding the right file
Let’s be honest: Searching for files in the file explorer or on your desktop can be very annoying. Especially if you are looking for a certain picture of – let’s say – your last holiday trip to Italy. Luckily, previews are a thing for a while now!
The busy software user expects your program to present him or her a little preview of the file…
Medecinum Is Powered by Delphi: An Impressive Medical Library For Medical Students And Professionals
February 12, 2021
Medecinum is a medical library and MCQ bank for medical students and professionals and it is powered by Delphi. According to the developer, “The aim of this app is to provide a quick reference and training resources for all students and practitioners of medicine…
Intro
Have you wondered how to make applications that look like Universal Windows Platform based applications, for instance having the Fluent Design System for your Delphi FireMonkey Applications? Since the UX and UI of the UWP applications are based on Fluent, they look…
Trying to sum up what a programming language and software authoring system like Delphi represents, spanning 25 years no less, is almost insurmountable. Where should I begin? Groundbreaking object orientation? Event driven architecture? A thriving component market? Or perhaps a technological wingspan that stretches from x86 assembly-language to high-performance ARM mobile applications?
Instead of…
