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Thursday, 19. July 2012
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Add A Splash Screen To Your Delphi Application
About Delphi Programming
– in VCL Ideas :: The most basic splash screen is just an image (more precisely a form with an image) that appears in the center of the desktop screen when the application is loading (and gets hidden when the application is ready for usage). Read the full article to learn how to Show A Splash Screen ...
Wednesday, 18. July 2012
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Visual Studio 2012 is coming!
RemObjects Blogs
– As most of you are probably aware, Visual Studio 2012, the next version of our favorite IDE for the Windows platform and home to our Oxygene compiler, is coming soon, with the RTM date having been announced for August. Of course we have been working tightly with our friends at Microsoft over the ...
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Measuring 'The customer is always right'
TMS Software Blog
– Listening to the needs of our customers was always a top priority during the last 17 years at TMS software. The daily communication with our customers has proven to be very fruitful for steering not only what capabilities and features are being added to existing components but also creation of ...
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Microsoft Reappearing Ballot Screen
Marco's Tech Blog
– You might have heard that yesterday the EU Antitrust Commission opened an investigation with Microsoft, because the company "forgot" to include the so-called ballot screen (or Browser Choice Screen) in Service pack 1 of Windows 7, 15 months ago. In short, the EU has forced Microsoft to include an ...
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It’s my Birthday! My gift to you: $100 off Castalia for Delphi
TwoDesk Delphi Blog
– Today, July 18, 2012, is my birthday. I’ve been alive for thirty-two years! (My parents say it’s weird to have a child that old) To celebrate, I’m offering a $100 discount on new licenses of the Castalia Suite – my collection of time-saving tools for Delphi programmers ...
Tuesday, 17. July 2012
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FireMonkey Links #3
Marco's Tech Blog
– Lots of news: TMS FireMonkey Grid, FireMonkey Insane Demo, FireMonkey Labs, MIDA FireMonkey Converted Embarcadero edition. TMS FireMonkey Grid TMS has released its new FireMonkey cross-platform grid component, which is fully FireMonkey enabled and based on styles, works also on iOS, remains ...
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Параллельное программирование с OmniThreadLibrary
The Delphi Geek
– Alex did the impossible and translated all existing parts of Parallel Programming with OmniThreadLibrary in a record time! The Russian version of the book is now on sale at LeanPub. Click here for additional information about the book… --- Published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 ...
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Movie #74 - THeaderControl
LearnDelphi.TV
– In this video we take a detailed look at the THeaderControl component. It is an extract from Building Apps in Delphi with the VCL Part 3 (to be released shortly). I had intended not to cover the THeaderControl as as it is not a particularly exciting control, however after asking on StackOverflow, ...
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Programming with Smart
The Delphi Geek
– Today I have published a new chapter in A Smart Book – Programming with Smart. Inside you’ll find: My First Smart Program File Management Application Architecture Forms and Navigation Message Dialogs Themes and Styles Command-line Applications Writing Games Click here for more information about the ...
Monday, 16. July 2012
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Delphi IDE Tips Session at User Group meeting
Brian Long
– Today I gave a talk at the Maidenhead meeting of the UK Developers Group, for which I also acted as the M.C. (welcoming, running through the agenda, passing on any pertinent industry news, etc.). The talk was a re-run and update of a vintage session I last did at DCon 2000 and BorCon 2001, and the ...
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It's here: TMS FireMonkey cross-platform grid
TMS Software Blog
– After many months of research, developing, testing, polishing and documenting, the team at TMS software is proud to announce the availability of our first TMS FireMonkey cross-platform grid! Ever since Delphi XE2 was released, we regularly received emails from customers asking when our immensely ...
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Focus Next Entry Control On Enter Key Press (vs Tab)
About Delphi Programming
– in Keyboard Programming :: Pressing the Tab key moves the input focus to next control and Shift-Tab to previous in the tab order of the form. When working with Windows applications, some users intuitively expect the Enter key to behave like a Tab key. Read the full article to learn how to Make The ...
Sunday, 15. July 2012
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tgrep update
Jamie's Blog
– A while ago, I posted about the tgrep challenge. The tgrep challenge was to devise an application which can search through very large log files for lines which match the time (the name of the challenge will give away the purpose for those familiar with the grep tool). The challenge focuses ...
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Object Inspector Expert Beta 5 (High DPI item height fix)
Uwe's Delphi blog
– I have been asked if I could adjust the Object Inspectors item height for non-standard screen DPI values and here is Beta 5 with a fix for this. Users at 96 DPI like me should not notice any difference, but I guess some of you will download and install it anyway. For more information about the ...
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Using the Cocoa toolbar (NSToolbar) in XE2
Delphi Haven
– Following my previous post that demonstrated how to write a simple Mac PDF viewer, I got a request for showing how to use the Cocoa toolbar control in a FireMonkey application. When used, the Cocoa toolbar is the button bar that is fixed to the top of a window, and in recent versions of OS X, is ...
