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Changing the color scheme of an Android style

Author: Felipe X60228 In this post, we’ll show you how to use the Bitmap-style designer to change the color scheme of an Android-style you’ve created in IDE Software. Step 1: Select one of the Style Templates Open the Bitmap Style Designer via the Tools menu in the IDE.  Select New > New Android Light Style. You can choose any of the style templates provided here. but for this blog…
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Using Migration Tool to Move Your Settings to Update 1

As you can read in the comments of the blog post announcing Berlin 10.1 Update 1, if you are using the GetIt based installer, the registry settings are not preserved as you uninstall, unlike when you are using the traditional ISO-based installer. Beside manually backing up and restoring part of your registry configuration, asolution you can use is to leverage the …
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Closing the Class Helpers Private Access Loophole

As many of you know, Embarcadero made a change to the Delphi compiler in 10.1 Berlin to close an existing bug that allowed access to private data of any class via a class helper. Developers who were leveraging this hack would need a migration strategy. Private is&#8230…
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Ribbon Controls in RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin

Author: John T. Haller A few Delphi and C++Builder developers who moved to 10.1 Berlin are wondering what happened to the VCL Ribbon controls and how to get them. Here is the full story. A Tale of the Fluent UI (or Office UI) Let me start from the beginning, while trying to…
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Using the Floating Form Designer in Delphi

The Floating Form Designer is often commented as one of the reasons many developers still love using Delphi 7after almost 14 years. In that time Delphi has moved on a long way,firstly moving to theGalileo(docked) IDE, added unicode,64bit compiler, Generics, Attributes, RTTI (or reflection for .Net people), FireMonkey, cross platform compilers for Mac, iOS and Android…
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Connecting the Philips Hue Bridge to Wi-Fi

Author: Rogerio GB I needed to connect my Philips Hue Bridge to Wi-Fi to use it for a presentation at a conference in Brazil. Most public Wi-Fi networks segments each connection preventing communication between devices, besides the fact the Hue Bridge is Ethernet only (Not sure who at Phillips made that decision). Luckily I was able to come up with a solution. All I needed was my MacBook Pro…
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