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Monday, 10. November 2014
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InterBase CodeRage 9
Stephen Ball
– The CodeRage 9 videos are now available for reply online via YouTube. To save you searching, the InterBase CodeRage 9 links I did are below; For the full list of videos from CodeRage 9 please visit the Embarcadero Community blog post for CodeRage 9 InterBase Product Address InterBase IBLite (Object ...
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CodeRage 9 replay videos are now on YouTube
Sip from the Firehose
– The CodeRage 9 session videos are now viewable on the Embarcadero YouTube channel. Video replays of the sessions and live Q&A are posted for the C++ and Object Pascal tracks. You can access the videos using the ffollowing YouTube playlist URLs: C++ Track: ...
Sunday, 9. November 2014
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App Tethering (Part 2) – Resources and a License Duplication Check Demo
OTAPI
– Previously… In the first part of this series of articles, we took a look at Interoperable Systems as a concept, followed by App Tethering – a recent addition to Delphi enabling us to quickly and easily produce Interoperable Systems – finishing off with two introductory sample ...
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A Generic TLKEventListener for LKSL
The Art of Delphi Programming
– While playing a bit with Simon Stuarts LKSL event engine, I thought it would be quite handy to have a generic TLKEventListener taking away the need for some boiler plate code. Here it is:type TLKEventListener<T: TLKEvent> = class(TLKEventListener) type TEventCallback = procedure(const ...
Friday, 7. November 2014
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App Tethering (Part 1) – Interoperable Systems & Autonomous Pairing
OTAPI
– What are “Interoperable Systems” To begin this series of articles, let’s explain what an Interoperable System is and why you should care. “Interoperation” (and synonyms such as “Interoperate”, “Interoperable” and “Interoperability”) ...
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Displaying Long Non-Breakable Text (File Path) In MessageDlg – Truncation/Ellipsis Issues
Zarko Gajic
– Introduced way back in Delphi 2009 the TTaskDialog (defined in Dialogs.pas) implements task dialogs. Task dialogs first appeared in Windows Vista and are used in later Windows versions. In essence, a task dialog is similar to, while much more flexible and parameter-rich than the standard message ...
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Windows .RES/Resource editors
The Wiert Corner
– While researching the manifest problem I will post about next week, I made a short list of free Windows Resource Editors: ResEdit Resource Editor – free resource editor for Win32. Resource Editor | MelanderBlog. (the download there is broken, but you can find it using Google; not maintained ...
Thursday, 6. November 2014
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ITDevCon and EKON session materials on Delphi Unit Testing + Build Automation and Continuous Integration on-line
The Wiert Corner
– The last couple of weeks I taught two sessions at both ITDevCon 2014 in Milano, Italy and EKON 2014 in Köln, Germany. The EKON materials are slightly more up to date and elaborate (sessions there were 75 minutes), so below are all the links. Notes: I’ve switched to Markdown for presenting as ...
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Delphi and Batch Files
The Wiert Corner
– Two interesting links today about Delphi and Batch files. Using batch files to streamline your build process. This is a really long post explaining a system of batch files to facilitate continuous integration using Batch files and the Delphi commandline compiers. A workaround for calling batch ...
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XE7 VCL Events in Asia Pacific During November
Malcolm Groves
– We have a bunch of RAD Studio XE7 events coming up in APAC over the next month or so. They are free, half day sessions focussed on modernising existing VCL applications, where you’ll learn topics such as: New VCL components, such as TaskBar and JumpList and how to easily add them to existing ...
Wednesday, 5. November 2014
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Windows software developers – High DPI awareness: the developer Y2K (or is it EUR introduction) of our time.
The Wiert Corner
– An interesting statement by Steve Maughan: Looking at how many High DPI awareness or lack of is the developers Y2K of our time. Looking at the trouble Windows and Windows applications in general have with High DPI (more in general: resolution independence). I think it rates even higher: as the EUR ...
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Delphi; Conditional defines in the .dpr: FastMM4 disappearing – via: G+ I’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE…
The Wiert Corner
– Vin Colgin posted on G+: The kind of text that the Delphi IDE often removes in a .dpr file. FastMM4 and lines in the *.dpr I’ve got an old problem, in which the IDE will take the lines required out of the “uses” clause in the *.dpr. Something I’m sure we’re all aware ...
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VCL Styles Utils – Major Update (Dialogs, ProgressBar, DateTimePicker, ListView and more)
The Road to Delphi
– A Major updated was made to the VCL Styles Utils project. This version include several fixes and new features. Vcl.Styles.Hooks The Vcl.Styles.Hooks unit is the most updated part of this new release. This unit is the responsible of hook some of the UxTheme and WinApi methods like ...
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Developing on the Samsung Gear Live Smart Watch
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– Previously I created a blog post about using Delphi and RAD Studio XE7 to develop for the Moto 360. The new FireUI Multi Device Designer (MDD) makes is a breeze to design for the new smaller UI. I’ve since updated the FireUI Devices project on GitHub to cover the Samsung Gear Live & LG-G ...
Tuesday, 4. November 2014
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RAD XE7 Tour Coming to 10 Additional US Cities
Delphi Insider
– RAD Studio XE7 World Tour - North AmericaSee the biggest release since 64-bit for RAD Studio! RAD Studio XE7 is the single biggest jump forward for 32-bit and 64-bit VCL and FireMonkey applications!Join Embarcadero’s David I, Jim McKeeth, Sarina DuPont, Al Mannarino ...
