The integrated Style Designer in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin has undergone several changes and improvements, including:
Clipboard, keyboard and multi-selection support on the Structure view
Preview panel
Zooming support
I recently received a question from a customer on how to best customize a style for a specific component, and I thought I’d cover the steps in a blog post. In this tutorial, we…
In RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin, we provide a new ListView Item Designer for FireMonkey applications that you can use to easily design custom ListView layouts. During today’s launch webinar, I showed the new TListView Item Designer in action. TListView provides a fast…
I was thinking about how I would do a gender based analysis of our customer database without surveying our customers. The Embarcadero Community profile does not ask whether you are male or female. At the recent Evans Data Developer Relations Conference, there was a…
The Floating Form Designer is often commented as one of the reasons many developers still love using Delphi 7after almost 14 years. In that time Delphi has moved on a long way,firstly moving to theGalileo(docked) IDE, added unicode,64bit compiler, Generics, Attributes, RTTI (or reflection for .Net people), FireMonkey, cross platform compilers for Mac, iOS and Android…
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Skill Sprint: Saving and Retrieving Settings Using SaveState
January 12, 2016
Author: Developer Skill Sprints
Introduction to “SaveState”
Persist form & app state between sessions
On mobile devices, background apps may be terminated for memory
Default saves state to transient / temporary storage
Also option to save to persistent…
Some cool new FireMonkey components, ksComponents (Kernow Software FMX components), created by Graham Murt, are available on GitHub. You’ll find the source code for TksListView, TksFormTransition, TksTableView,TksSlideMenu, TksSegmentButtons and TksChatView. Readme file can be found at https://github.com/gmurt/KernowSoftwareFMX/blob/master/README.md. You can follow the kSComponents on…
How to best load an image from a URL using TWebBrowser when targeting multiple devices
December 21, 2015
In this snippet, I placed a TWebBrowser control onto my FireMonkey form and aligned it to the client. I then set up the following OnFormCreate event to load a web image into the browser control. I also restricted the image size to the screen dimensions of the…
Skill Sprint: Using Android Intents for Inter App Communication
November 30, 2015
Author: Developer Skill Sprints
Skill Sprint Replay – Delphi/Object Pascal
Using Android Intents with Object Pascal / Delphi 10 Seattle
Delphi/Object Pascal Learning…
Skill Sprint: Unlocking the Windows Runtime (WinRT) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP) on Windows 10
November 24, 2015
Author: Marleon
What is the Windows Runtime (WinRT)?
Introduced in Windows 8
Default program interface
Object Oriented API
Native Code API
Does not replace Win32
Not part of .NET
Not managed code
Not a tablet version of Windows (WindowsRT)
Only way to access some features of Windows 10
Asynchronous
Non blocking > 50ms
Read more about the new world’s C++/WinRT and how it can…
