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August 2009
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RAD Studio 2010 - Touch & Gestures Part 2
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– One of the integrated touch features of the VCL in RAD Studio 2010 is interactive multi-touch gestures. We call them InteractiveGestures because they fire the OnGesture event continuosly as the gesture is performed, allowing UI to be updated to reflect zooming, panning and rotation. ...
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RAD Studio 2010 - Touch & Gestures Part 1
Seppy Bloom
– Finally! RAD Studio 2010 is just around the corner which means we can talk about all that new awesome "stuff" we've been working on. Chris Bensen and I have spent a lot of our time working on building a gesturing framework and integrating touch into the VCL. Here's a sneak peek ...
July 2008
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Tiburón Preview: TButtonedEdit
Seppy Bloom
– As I mentioned earlier I'll be posting a series of previews of new VCL features. First up is the all new TButtonedEdit component: Derived from TEdit, it provides embedded buttons that can optionally drop down a popupmenu (as seen above). We've used this new component in the ...
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Tiburón Preview
Seppy Bloom
– It's been awhile, more than awhile actually, but with Tiburón on the horizon, now's a great time to get some posts going! As I'm sure you know, Tiburón is all about Unicode support, but that's not all that's new in the VCL. I'll start posting some sneak peaks of the new ...
July 2007
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What not not to do
Seppy Bloom
– After reading Chris Bensen's recent post about naming variables, I came across the following that made me smile: FIsNotXP := not CheckWin32Version(5, 1); Later on FIsNotXP is used in like this: if (not FIsNotXP) and FInAnimation then
March 2007
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Three simple steps to Vista enable your VCL application
Seppy Bloom
– One of many new features in Delphi 2007 for Win32 is improved Vista support in VCL. New applications get these improvements by default, but what about existing applications? There are three easy steps you can take to make your application more Vista-like: Theme your applicationThis will change the ...
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Four Minutes and Twenty Seconds (or how Mr. Murphy hijacked my presentation)
Seppy Bloom
– It's taken a while, a long time in fact, but I'm finally ready to join the party, the blogging party that is. With the release of Delphi 2007 for Win32, I can't think of a better time to get this blog started. I work on the Delphi/BDS products, primarily on the VCL framework. Those who tried to ...
