Archive
Monday, 6. September 2010
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Custom drawing on glass (2)
Delphi Haven
– In my previous post, I both introduced the topic of custom drawing on glass, and looked at basic bitmap drawing specifically. In this one, I’ll look in more detail at the other ‘classic GDI’ techniques I mentioned there, namely using icons, image lists, the theming API and brushes. I’ll ...
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Virtual method interception
Entropy Overload
– Delphi XE has a new type in Rtti.pas called TVirtualMethodInterceptor. It was originally designed for use in DataSnap authentication scenarios (though I don't think it's currently being used there), but of course, making it only work for that would have been quite a limitation. What does it do? ...
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Brian Lindahl on VS2010 Integration
RemObjects Blogs
– Talking with Brian Lindahl, a Senior Developer on Oxygene, about Visual Studio 2010 Integration with Oxygene and Delphi Prism; mobile application development on the iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7; and the Mono, MonoDroid and MonoTouch frameworks.
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Open Letter to Digital Metaphors
The Delphi Disciple
– I am currently rewriting our standard Crystal Reports (over 250) in ReportBuilder, so that we can standardise on one report writer. I have been so impressed by ReportBuilder during this development process that I felt compelled to write to Digital Metaphors and let them know. I just wanted to drop ...
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Goodies and Bugs in Delphi XE
Marco's Tech Blog
– This post is actually a collection of small ones (should probably start an "small tidbits" series of posts like Nick Hodges does -- congrats on the new job, by the way). 1. There is a nice article about "Goodies in Delphi XE" by Jan. Short and effective, a good read to learn why bother about XE. ...
