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JEDI libraries now in GetIt Package Manager

Author: Luis Navarro Hello. I’m very pleased to announce that the popular JEDI libraries are now available in the GetIt Package Manager catalog. For those who don’t know these libraries, the JEDI Code Library (JCL) consists of a set of thoroughly tested and fully documented utility functions and non-visual classes which can be instantly reused in your Delphi and C++…
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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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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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C++

Finding your Tethered Apps

Author: Vincent P596 RAD Studio XE6, Delphi XE6 and C++Builder XE6 include support for tethering your VCL and FMX apps together. This blog post shows you how to display all of the tethered apps that you can find on your subnet. App Tethering includes two components: TTetheringManager and TTetheringAppProfile. For this article I’ve built a Delphi VCL application that uses these two components…
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Customizing and Creating VCL Styles

Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio include various VCL styles out of the box. These can be used for your Windows applications and customized via the included Bitmap Style Designer (Tools->Bitmap Style Designer). You can also create a new style from scratch. The easiest way…
C++

Using the REST Debugger will help you prototype your Delphi and C++ REST apps

As part of the new addition of the REST Client Library components in Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio XE5, we also include a REST Debugger so that you can explore REST Services and use it to help prototype the property settings for your app’s REST Client components. We also provide the source code to the REST Debugger and you can build other platform versions (Win64 and OSX) of the…
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