Author: Craig Stuntz
HTML input elements have a placeholder attribute which you can use to show a bit of text to prompt the end user. Although you can make an editable div by using the contenteditable attribute, it will not support the placeholder attribute. I needed to do both, so I ended up reinventing the placeholder attribute for editable divs. Here’s how I did it.
I wanted the…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
It seems that it is my very first post in the New Year 2013, so I wish You all the best and great time writing all kinds of programs. I’m sure it is going to be a great year for Delphi and Marco is predicting it as well, especially that next month…
Author: Jim T1392
The adapter components TListBindSourceAdapter and TObjectBindSourceAdapter enable LiveBindings with user defined TObjects.
Here is a user defined TObject for example.
type
TContact = class
private
FFirstName: string;
FLastName: string;
…
Author: Jayme Jeffman Filho
You have probably iterated through the Components array many many times as a Delphi developer.
Consider this simple application:
It’s probably no surprise that listing the Components of the form like this…
procedure TForm2.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
i: Integer;
begin
Memo2.Lines.Clear;
for i := 0 to ComponentCount-1 do
…
Author: Miguel Angel Oliver
On15th of November the HTML5 Builder QA Team was in the VLCTesting where welearned very good experiences and shared knowledge, amongst this was the software Sonar,Right now in HTML5 Builder we are not using that tool but we…
Author: Andreas O1387
If you ever see the error “Product or License Validation Error” pop up, the first thing you should do is Google the exact error message. If you do so, you will find the first hit to be exactly what you want – Starting RAD Studio…
I have just returned from myRAD Studio XE3 World Tour stops in Europe. It was great to see so many young and old developers in London, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Heidelberg. In two cities I was asked whether there were any Object Relational Mapping solutions for Delphi. There are two Delphi ORM(s) that I know about:
TMS Software’s TMS Aurelius – commercial ORM.
For those of you who need to learn more about Delphi programming, Alister Christie (http://learndelphi.tv/)who is one of our Embarcadero MVPs, has 74 free Delphi tutorial videos and a long form training videos “Building Applications in Delphi Using the Visual…
Author: Pawe Gowacki
Have you ever written a component in Delphi? Reusable components are the corner-stone of rapid application development and important part of Delphi success on the market. Being able to manipulate an instance of a class at design-time is where Delphi…
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…
