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Cool App Winner for September: RAD & Installer

I’m excited to announce that our September Cool App contest winner for September is RAD & Installer. While I continue to be impressed at how all our Cool App winners are providing interesting, useful, entertaining and generally “cool” capabilities, I admittedly have a soft spot for apps like RAD & Installer that improve the usability of one of our very own Embarcadero tools, in this…
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Delphi

What is my IP address?

Author: Pawe Gowacki There are many situation when it would handy to know the IP address of a device where our app is running. Maybe you want to identify who is running your app? By IP address it is also possible to calculate the approximate location of a device. If you…
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Adding a Custom Icon to a FireMonkey Button

Step 1: Create a new FireMonkey Application Launch 10.2 Tokyo and go to File > New > FireMonkey Application (Delphi or C++) and select ‘Blank Application’. Drop a TStyleBook component onto your form and double-click it to open the integrated Style Designer.
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Join Andrea Magni in Millan for a Special ExtJS Event

A special event combining Delphi and Ext JS is coming with Embarcadero MVP Andrea Magni in Milanthis October 26th. Are you a Delphi developer looking for a modern web solution? Would you like to offer a web user interface as effective as your desktop application’s one? Is a mobile web app suitable to your needs instead of taking the complexity of build and distribute native mobile…
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Delphi

New "Delphi Memory Management" book is a hit!

Author: Pawe Gowacki Yesterday evening I have found an excellent Delphi book I have been always waiting for! The full title of the book is “Delphi Memory Management for Classic and ARC Compilers” and it is written by Dalija Prasnikar. The book is available in electronic form as a pdf file only. The topic of memory management is probably the most important in becoming a competent…
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New in 10.2.1: Debug visualisers for Delphi generics

Debug visualisers are a type of IDE plugin that allows you to changethe display of a variable in the various debug windows (Local Variables, Watches, Inspector, and Evaluate/Modify.) For example, the TDateTime visualiser takes the double value that represents time and…
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Embarcadero Academy

Author: Pawe Gowacki One developer asked me recently on Embarcadero community chat where he could find any learning resources for Delphi. Then I have realized that maybe not everybody is aware that just recently “Embarcadero Academy” has launched! It has been a…
C++

Wi-Fi management from applications using C++Builder

Author: h.mohri UsingC++Builder 10.2 Tokyo, explain how to switchWi-FionAndroid. ManageWi-Fiswitching usingJWifiManager I usedi_JWifiManager which wrappedWifiManager.di_JWifiManager is theDelphi interface.Set the variable._di_JWifiManager f_WifiManager;use it like this. Required headers Header file for using…
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