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 connect to Internet through a router, there are big chances that it implements “Network Address Translation” (NAT), to make…
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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. Select…
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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 Milan this 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…
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…
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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 change the 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 big…
C++

How to enqueue TQueue from TTask with bcc32

Author: h.mohri When considering migration from old C++Builder 10.2 Tokyo bcc32 project.You can use functions such as TThread::CreateAnonymousThread() and TTask to improve performance.In addition to TCriticalSection, you can also use System.TMonitor which supports…