Archive
Thursday, 28. January 2016
4
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Finding Delphi HotFixes on EDN
Delphi Code Monkey
– A problem that some Delphi users may not even know they have is "how do I navigate the EDN website and find Delphi fixes".Three problems stand in your way:1. The EDN site doesn't always have things posted under the heading Delphi. You should probably be looking for your hotfixes using the RAD ...
Wednesday, 27. January 2016
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Delphi TouchID wrapper for iOS
Sip from the Firehose
– Edrean Ernst (Tzaneen, South Africa), a Delphi developer, pointed me to a TouchID wrapper for Delphi. You can find the download on BitBucket at https://bitbucket.org/allesbeste/delphi-touchid-wrapper-for-delphi. On the page you'll find a README for the code that has example source code showing ...
0
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InterBase Labs – Referential Integrity
Stephen Ball
– InterBase Referential Integrity InterBase has a number of options for Referential Integrity that are powerful to use and simplify keeping data valid. This video covers (more reading from the InterBase DocWiki on the links here) Primary Key Unique Key Foreign Key Check Constraints Tip for adding ...
Tuesday, 26. January 2016
3
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Decompressing the TRESTResponse
The PodCast at Delphi.org
– RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ 10 Seattle has a fantastic REST Client Library. If you are unfamiliar with it, check out my 5 Minute REST Client video. The TRESTRequest component has an AcceptEncoding property where you can specify the type of compression you would like applied to the response. The ...
3
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Carrying The Torch
OTAPI
– Hi there, My name is Daniel Jackson. I am a close personal friend of the much-missed founder of the OTAPI blog (Simon), and a long-time developer (not just in Delphi/Pascal, but across a great many languages and platforms). I have been asked to “carry the torch” of the OTAPI blog, along ...
Monday, 25. January 2016
3
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DFMCheck 1.6 released
Andy's Blog
– I made a small update for DFMCheck RAD Studio IDE plugin. The new version 1.6 adds a “Yes to all” button to the “Open/Close all forms” confirmation dialog for modified DFM files and it uses the Vista+ taskbar progress feature. More information about DFMCheck:http://andy.jgknet.de/blog/ide- ...
1
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Register for "Delphi Practical Workshop", Belgium, March 3rd
Pawel Glowacki
– Good news! On March 3rd, in Hotel ter Elst Edegem, just south of Antwerp in Belgium, there will be the second edition of "Delphi Practical Workshop" that was run mid December in the Netherlands. The workshop is organised by Barnsten, Delphi Company and Embaradero and you can register ...
2
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LiveBindings in VCL – Part 7 – More LiveBinding Classes
Stephen Ball
– In my earlier posts on Delphi Visual Live Bindings I looked at how to link to bindings via code. There are a number of classes that help along the way but there are two specific categories of classes and that is what I want to cover in this post. LiveBindings and List v Link Sometimes you want to ...
0
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Delphi Developer Days Postponed
Let's Get Technical
– The annual spring Delphi seminar known as Delphi Developer Days has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.Loy Anderson (the DDD event manager), Bob (Dr.Bob) Swart, and I have been working to put together this year's Delphi Developer Days, and we were getting close to announcing our ...
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Brisbane Meeting – February 2016
Australian Delphi User Group Members
– Wednesday February 3rd at 5:30pm to 9pm. Please NOTE – this year all meetings will be on the first Wednesday of the month. We always need volunteer presenters, if you have some interesting topic you’d like to share, don’t hesitate. Random topics will be drawn from our discussion ...
Sunday, 24. January 2016
0
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Delphi Developer Days Postponed
Dr.Bob's Delphi Notes
– The annual spring Delphi seminar known as Delphi Developer Days has been postponed due to circumstances beyond our control.
Friday, 22. January 2016
1
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Videos that will help you move your Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio projects forward!
Sip from the Firehose
– We have created numerous videos that will help you take your existing Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio based projects and move the forward fast! Here are just a few of the many videos that will show you how easy it is to use 10 Seattle editions to modernize your applications. Delphi Update Your ...
0
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On Conditional Compilation
The Art of Delphi Programming
– Following up the discussion about conditional compilation that evolved from David Millington’s post on Google+ – as I mentioned there in my comments (and this answer on stackoverflow) I suggest using conditional compilation based on {$IF-constructs checking the built in constants ...
2
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A Splash Form in FireMonkey
The Art of Delphi Programming
– While there are plenty of ways to implement a splash form in a VCL application, most of those won’t work anymore when they are going to be ported to FMX – especially when it comes to mobile targets. Thanks to one small improvement of FMX over VCL there is a simple and reliable way to ...
Thursday, 21. January 2016
11
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Introducing FNC and TTMSFNCChart
TMS Software Blog
– As we have been developing UI VCL framework components since 1995 and FireMonkey framework components since 2011, we have recently been doing extensive research on approaches to create visual UI components that would simultanously support the VCL framework and the FireMonkey framework. As a result ...