Author: Pawe Gowacki
I have just recently discovered a super easy way of adding custom icons to Delphi components. Traditionally you had to start from a rectangular bitmap of a specific size and color depth and then use Image Editor. This is documented in many places including Stackoverflow.
After a little bit of googling I have come across another Stackoverflow post that inspired my to give…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Summer is a great time to catch up with books that you have on your shelf, but do not have time to read. Obviously I would suggest starting from my recently released “Expert Delphi”, but there are plenty of other interesting books to look at.
Author: Pawe Gowacki
My “Expert Delphi” book has been published by PACKT Publishing and is currently available for a limited time for just $10at https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/expert-delphi.The book is about how to become developer…
In this episode of the Podcast @ Delphi.org we talk with Cary Jensen about his new bookDelphi in Depth: FireDAC and the upcoming Delphi Developer Dayswhich Cary puts on with Dr. Bob Swart. Nick Hodges, our co-host, was a previous host of Delphi Developer Days with Cary, and I’ve made a number of appearances there as well. They are highly recommended. You can listen to that…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer Mode First.
Enabling ADB Debugging
https://developer.android.com/topic/arc/index.html#setup
First you have to allow ADB through the firewall. Go to crosh ([CTRL][ALT][T]) and…
This is part of my series on developing with Chrome OS
Chromebook Developer Mode
You need to put your Chromebook in Developer mode, which wipes the local storage, so you are better off doing it sooner rather than later. Also keep in mind it may void your…
There is a great post by Sarina Adding a style selector to your applicationshowing how to have a FMX application with multiple style books, and a combo box listing the styles. When the app is running, a user can select one of the style in the combo box and the FireMonkey app will change style dynamically.
However, the code sample is in Delphi, not C++. How do you do this in a…
Google’s Chrome OS is based on their Chrome Browser and runs on Chromebooks, which are hybrids of a tablet and a laptop. They are designed with the assumption that the majority of what we do nowadays is done through the browser. Google announced a while ago that they…
We have added a number of new categories to the GetIt Package Manager in 10.2 Tokyo to make it easier to find what you’re looking for in GetIt. The GetIt Package Manager can be accessed through the Tools menu in the IDE.
Here’s the new list of categories…
One basic questionI get asked is howcan I convert arbitrary JSON into some kind of data structure such that I can extract useful data?
One solution is to use the TRESTDataSetAdapter with arbitrary JSON.
TheTRESTDataSetAdapterandTClientDataSetcomponents convert theJSONrepresentation into a dataset.
The TRESTDataSetAdapter has many nice…
