Archive
Monday, 10. July 2017
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Movie #115 - Syntax Highlighting Colors
LearnDelphi.TV
– Have you changed your default colors in Delphi? If not you probably should. With adjusting the colors you can gain greater insight into your code, you can reduce the strain on your eyes and you can make Delphi look just plain cooler. This video is four and a half minutes long and you can watch it ...
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Movie #116 - Fractals, Parallel Programing, Code Optimization and Cross Platform
LearnDelphi.TV
– This was a talk that I did for the ADUG Winter Symposium (4-Aug-2016) in Sydney. In it I build a cross-platform (Windows/Android) application for calculating fractals. It's on fractals, code optimizations and parallel programming. The images and details about the super-computers is from Wikipedia ...
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Movie #117 - Bowling game code kata
LearnDelphi.TV
– This is the classic bowling game code kata, it's an illustration of test driven development. I was first made aware of it in one of Uncle Bob's (Robert C Martin) videos on CleanCoders.com. I've produced this as an example of doing it using Delphi. This video was produced for the Intensive Delphi ...
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Movie #118 - User Interface Security
LearnDelphi.TV
– If you think that disabling a control will prevent a user from using that control then you need to watch this video. As a quick summary: if you can get the windows handle of a control, you can send messages to that control and changes it's properties.
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Movie #119 - TcxTextEdit from DevExpress
LearnDelphi.TV
– I'm going to be taking a look at some of the controls offered by DevExpress, who commercially produce 3rd party controls for Delphi. Check out this 10 minute introduction to TcxTextEdit.
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Movie #120 - TListView Design Mode in FireMonkey
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take a look at the ListView design mode that has been added to Delphi 10.1 Berlin. It allows you to customize the layout of the ListView Items without writing any code - in fact in this entire demo I write no code at all.
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Movie #121 - Using reFind to fix System.UITypes warning
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take advantage of the fact that reFind can add units to the uses of a unit and we make use of this to remove (in bulk) the "Inline function 'MessageDlg' has not been expanded because unit 'System.UITypes' is not specified in USES list" compiler hint. Watch it here.
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Movie #122 - Changing the color of a TEdit with Styles Enabled
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we look at how we can change the background color (and font) of a TEdit when VCL Styles are enabled. Watch on YouTube Here.
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Movie #123 - FireDAC Preprocessor
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we look at how we can write cross-platform SQL by using the FireDAC Preprocessor. We can write a single SQL statement, which will then be processed differently on different platforms. In this video will be looking at a difference between SQLite and MSSQL Server.
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Movie #124 - IndexFieldNames Property on FireDAC DataSets
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take a look how we can use the IndexFieldNames property on any FireDAC TDataSet to enable sorting when clicking on a TDBGrid title. The nice thing about FireDAC is it also allows you to sort in reverse order.
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Movie #115 - Syntax Highlighting Colors
LearnDelphi.TV
– Have you changed your default colors in Delphi? If not you probably should. With adjusting the colors you can gain greater insight into your code, you can reduce the strain on your eyes and you can make Delphi look just plain cooler. This video is four and a half minutes long and you can watch it ...
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Movie #116 - Fractals, Parallel Programing, Code Optimization and Cross Platform
LearnDelphi.TV
– This was a talk that I did for the ADUG Winter Symposium (4-Aug-2016) in Sydney. In it I build a cross-platform (Windows/Android) application for calculating fractals. It's on fractals, code optimizations and parallel programming. The images and details about the super-computers is from Wikipedia ...
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Movie #117 - Bowling game code kata
LearnDelphi.TV
– This is the classic bowling game code kata, it's an illustration of test driven development. I was first made aware of it in one of Uncle Bob's (Robert C Martin) videos on CleanCoders.com. I've produced this as an example of doing it using Delphi. This video was produced for the Intensive Delphi ...
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Movie #118 - User Interface Security
LearnDelphi.TV
– If you think that disabling a control will prevent a user from using that control then you need to watch this video. As a quick summary: if you can get the windows handle of a control, you can send messages to that control and changes it's properties.
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Movie #119 - TcxTextEdit from DevExpress
LearnDelphi.TV
– I'm going to be taking a look at some of the controls offered by DevExpress, who commercially produce 3rd party controls for Delphi. Check out this 10 minute introduction to TcxTextEdit.
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Movie #120 - TListView Design Mode in FireMonkey
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take a look at the ListView design mode that has been added to Delphi 10.1 Berlin. It allows you to customize the layout of the ListView Items without writing any code - in fact in this entire demo I write no code at all.
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Movie #121 - Using reFind to fix System.UITypes warning
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take advantage of the fact that reFind can add units to the uses of a unit and we make use of this to remove (in bulk) the "Inline function 'MessageDlg' has not been expanded because unit 'System.UITypes' is not specified in USES list" compiler hint. Watch it here.
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Movie #122 - Changing the color of a TEdit with Styles Enabled
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we look at how we can change the background color (and font) of a TEdit when VCL Styles are enabled. Watch on YouTube Here.
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Movie #123 - FireDAC Preprocessor
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we look at how we can write cross-platform SQL by using the FireDAC Preprocessor. We can write a single SQL statement, which will then be processed differently on different platforms. In this video will be looking at a difference between SQLite and MSSQL Server.
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Movie #124 - IndexFieldNames Property on FireDAC DataSets
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take a look how we can use the IndexFieldNames property on any FireDAC TDataSet to enable sorting when clicking on a TDBGrid title. The nice thing about FireDAC is it also allows you to sort in reverse order.