NorJournal together with representatives of Viken county, Norway
Within the health sector in Norway, Delphi has played a key role for many years, and for good reason.The medical sector is a market that must conform with a high level of security and government standards, and as such the choice of development tool is important.
Embarcadero Delphi with its powerful database components, rapid…
TreeSize - Cool Apps Selection
February 4, 2020
Today’s CoolApps selection is TreeSize, from JAM Software. It is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager. TreeSize has been around for a while and can trace its history with Delphi all the way back to Delphi 1. This history allows TreeSize to leverage Delphi’s…
5 Unique Delphi Features For Windows 10
January 23, 2020
In my previous post I focused on InterBase 2020 and outlined five good reasons why InterBase should be your next database engine. In this post I want to look at five awesome additions to Delphi that help you write lean, modern and fully compliant Windows 10 applications.
To…
SQLGate Validates Delphi As The Right Tool For Building High Performance IDEs - Cool App Selection
December 11, 2019
One of the most intangible, yet key, strengths of Delphi is its ability to enable developers to create visually beautiful applications that perform their functions quietly, effectively, and with consummate rock-solid reliability. SQLGate from Chequer Inc. is exactly one of those software success stories.
SQLGate is one of the leading IDEs for database management and development. With over 50,000…
Atanas Popov (General Manager of Embarcadero) and Marco Cantu (RAD Studio Product Manager at Embarcadero) have had a conversation about the role of VCL for Windows client development. This is an un-edited transcript of the recording of the chat.
Atanas: Hi Marco, I wanted to…
Windows 10 and New Key UX Principles for RAD Studio Developers
September 10, 2019
I recently did a webinar on Windows 10 and New Key UX Principles for RAD Studio developers. You can find the replay here.The webinar covered the following:
Windows 10 Landscape
Key RAD Studio Windows 10 Features Overview
Windows 10 VCL Controls…
UWP and Windows App Platform
June 17, 2019
UWP and Windows App Platform
As you have probably seen, over the last month there has been some discussion around UWP (Universal Windows Platform) and the current focus, or change of focus, for Microsoft in terms of how developers should build applications for their mainstream operating system, Windows 10. There have been claims and counterclaims, making the entire debate quite…
High-DPI on Windows 10
June 3, 2019
Often times when we talk about monitors we discuss resolution (e.g.1920×1080) and diagonal dimensions (e.g. 27” or 68.58 cm), but we can use these numbers to calculate the DPI (see More on DPI and PPI below) with the good ol’ Pythagorean theorem. As the screen gets…
Classic Tips: VCL Multi-Column ListBox
March 26, 2019
I might be starting a new series of blog posts, going back to classic tips. This one was triggered by a Quality Portal report, which refers to an imprecise (but not fully incorrect) page of the RAD Studio Doc Wiki — same works in C++Builder. I did a quick Google…
GetIt: Calypso VCL Style - New in 10.3.1
March 18, 2019
The Calypso VCL Style is part of the new premium styles introduced in 10.3.1. It includes four variants: Light and Dark editors with Green or Blue UI elements. Once installed you will find these four style files in your styles folder:
Calypso.vsf
CalypsoLE.vsf
CalypsoSE.vsf
CalypsoSLE.vsf
To install Calypso VCL Style, just make sure you are updated to 10.3.1, launch RAD Studio, then go Tools ➜…