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Friday, 14. December 2012
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Conference season has (for me) departed
Brian Long
– It’s been a busy 6 weeks for me in terms of conferences. I used to be a regular speaker on Delphi and C++Builder topics at international conferences in the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s, but haven’t really been doing much in that area in the last semi-decade for various reasons that have no ...
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RAD Studio XE3 new features
Brian Long
– Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3 and RAD Studio XE3 have been out a few months now. Back in October, David I released a video per day of the month to highlight new features in some of the various products that make up RAD Studio XE3: Delphi XE3, C++Builder XE3 and HTML5 Builder (I didn’t immediately ...
Thursday, 13. December 2012
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Capturing console output with Delphi 2010/XE (revised)
Random thoughts on coding
– Following my previous post (Capturing console output with Delphi 2010/XE) and with all the great comments received on it, I have decided to publish the new solution provided by Lübbe Onken which solves the hanging issue when capturing the output for different kind of commands like ping, ...
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Aurelius objects everywhere - Distributed applications using JSON
TMS Software Blog
– TMS Aurelius version 1.7, released a couple of weeks ago, introduced a new feature that was often requested by users: JSON support. You may ask yourself, why is that so important? Can't I "use JSON" already with Delphi itself using JSONMarshal class, or even by a 3rd party library like Super Object? ...
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Desktop HTML5 apps game changer? node-webkit
DelphiTools
– Recently stumbled upon node-webkit, an open-source from Intel Open Source Technology Center, which is deliciously “simple”: combine a standalone webkit (Chromium) build and node.js into a runtime. Webkit/Chromium brings a high-performance HTML5 environment with JavaScript JITting ...
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Oxygene Goes to School
RemObjects Blogs
– Dr. Norman Morrison recently published a wonderful series of Oxygene for Java tutorials on his “Pascal Programming for Schools” site, including some on Android development. He reports that students in his school are already using Oxygene for Java for their educational projects and are ...
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XE Plus Pack – Release 11
JED Software Blog
– Release 11 of XE Plus Pack is now available for all supported IDE versions (Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3). XE Plus Pack and XE2 Plus Pack now include all features available in XE3 Plus Pack. Release 11 features: Visual Forms can now support multiple projects in the same location. Note: ...
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Custom Drawing a TComboBox: Color Pick List, Font Pick List
About Delphi Programming
– in using VCL :: As with menus (menu items), an application can create an owner-drawn combo box to take responsibility for painting list items. An owner-drawn combo box can list/show information other than text strings - usually some graphical elements. To demonstrate owner-drawing with combo ...
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Working with exceptions in DLLs
EurekaLog Blog
– This article will describe pitfalls and "gotcha"s for using and handling exceptions in DLLs. It will also discuss using exception tracer tools in DLLs. Content: What is DLL? What is exception? How DLLs report about failures? What is the proper way to handle exceptions in DLL? Framework System or ...
Wednesday, 12. December 2012
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C++ CodeRage7: My FireMonkey 3D session demo source code and slides
Pawel Glowacki
– My second C++ CodeRage7 session today is happening right now! This time I’m demonstrating basics of using C++Builder XE3 for building interactive, cross-platform Embarcadero CodeCentral slides and source code of demos presented during the session. There are four demo projects there. The first ...
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The 25 days of C++mas - December 12 - Checking 12/12/12 12:12:12.12 with C++Builder
Sip from the Firehose
– Today is December 12, 2012. At 12:12:12.12pm (Pacific Time) today at CodeRage 7 C++ Conference, Eli Boling of the C++Builder compiler team will be taking about the new C++Builder 64-bit compiler. We will stop the session for a quick moment at that time and have a small flash mob inside the ...
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C++ CodeRage7: My DataSnap session demo source code and slides
Pawel Glowacki
– The C++ CodeRage 7 virtual conference is great fun so far. Lots of great sessions and we had a great guest on Monday: Bjarne Stroustrup, who invented the C++ Programming language. Right now in the virtual space there is my pre-recorded "Building scalable, multitier systems with DataSnap and ...
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Dragging an FMX list box item to a grid without superfluous highlighting
Delphi Haven
– This a somewhat specific problem, but anyhow, I have an FMX application I’m writing in which I was wanting to be able to drag a list box item to a grid. Now, the FMX TListBox has an AutoDrag property to allow its items to be dragged, and FMX controls – like VCL ones – have ...
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Movie #86 - Getting help with Delphi
LearnDelphi.TV
– This is just a quick look at some of the resources available for when you get stuck on a Delphi problem. The video is (as always) available on YouTube. While there is a bit of self promotion in this video, I do cover many of the other commercial resources out there - although I did forget to ...
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Movie #85 - Property Analyser Part 1
LearnDelphi.TV
– This video is going to be the first in a series on porting an application from the VCL to FireMonkey. In this first part we take a quick look at the application and get it compiling in Delphi XE3. You can watch it on YouTube. The video is almost thirteen minutes long.
