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Creating a custom button style with RAD Studio 10 Seattle

In RAD Studio 10 Seattle, we made many enhancements to the integrated style designer in the IDE. In today’s post, I thought I would cover the steps for creating your own custom button style using RAD Studio 10 Seattle. Follow the steps below to create your own custom button style for Windows. The same steps apply to customizing UI controls for other platforms as well. 1. Go to File > New…
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New per-DPI awareness in VCL applications

Author: Luis Navarro In RAD Studio 10 Seattle, we’ve added per-DPI awareness in the VCL. This means that, when moving a form from one monitor to another one that has different DPI, the VCL form and the controls will be rescaled according to the new DPI, with no…
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Adding headers to TListView programmatically

During today’s Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 10 Seattle launch webinar, I got a question on how to add headers to TListView programmatically instead of using LiveBindings with a data source. Here is a quick code snippet showing how to programmatically add TListView…
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Getting Started with the new Windows 10 VCL UI Controls in RAD Studio 10 Seattle

With the RAD Studio 10 Seattle release, we introduced 5 new VCL UI controls. These controls were specifically designed for Windows 10 and address common UI paradigms on Windows 10. While they were designed for Windows 10, the new VCL controls will also work with older versions of Windows, such as Windows 7 and Windows 8. As you can see in the screenshot above, we provide 3 new Windows 10 VCL…
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