Our recent series of webinars continued this past week with a look at how ridiculously fast and easy it is to create cross-platform apps with RAD Studio. You can very quickly design apps with RAD Studio which are powerful, modern, with rock-solid reliability – Delphi apps, for example, are notorious for just working with absolutely no dependencies and will happily continue operating even…
Secrets of Visual Design on Windows 11
November 14, 2022
Using truly great IDE software really empowers software developers. RAD Studio is so much more than just Delphi – which I think is the easiest professional modern programming language you can pick – it also brings along a whole bunch of great things not the least…
Developers often get requests to create forms where it is crucial to pay attention to the position of a cursor after the Tab key is pressed at every point of the program execution. This can be particularly important when developing cross platform apps where following…
What You Need To Know - A Beginner's Guide To Windows UI Toolkits
February 17, 2022
A control or component is a user interface (UI) element that displays content or enables interaction. Components are the building blocks of the user interface. A ‘pattern’ is a recipe for combining several controls to make something new. This article gives a guide for Windows UI development and design guidance for better UI development with modern Windows UI toolkits.
The Delphi…
How To Control Windows 11 Rounded Corners In Your App
September 10, 2021
As I hope you’re aware by now – RAD Studio 11 Alexandria is now available! The Windows IDE contains a whole ton of features, and it’s launching just ahead of Microsoft’s official release of the beautifully redesigned Windows 11. We wrote about the…
Join Delphi MVP Ian Barker as he shows how to get the modern Windows 10 look and feel using RAD Studio’s themes and some *very* cost-effective third-party controls. Get that truly modern WOW factor kickstarted with minimal effort – Ian will show you…
Promote the FREE Desktop First UX Summit
September 3, 2020
The FREE Desktop First UX Summit is fast approaching on Sept 16th & 17th. This is your chance to learn from the best UI & UX industry experts and practitioners and take your desktop applications to the next level. Move beyond the Mobile-First design of just stretching a small UI to fill a desktop screen. Learn how to take the most advantage of the most powerful platform and make your users…
Don’t Underestimate Desktop Applications
August 28, 2020
Desktop applications have been undervalued for a long time. All attention was reserved for web and mobile. While both Microsoft and Apple made strides to evolve the desktop, there has been far less energy and economic momentum behind that platform. Today the maturity of web…