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VOTERaw Strings in Oxygene
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This week’s build of Elements 12, build .3047, introduces a major new feature for the Oxygene language: Raw Strings. Raw strings are a new way of declaring string literals that make it easier to define… … Read more
2 weeks ago
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Merry Christmas
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From all of us here at RemObjects Software, we would like to wish you Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year!2025 has been an incredible year for the company and for our products…. … Read more
1 month ago
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The Theme of the Day
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This weeks build of Water, our Windows IDE for Elements adds an exciting new visual feature that many of you have been asking for for a long time: themes!On the Fire side, we have had… … Read more
2 months ago
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Introducing: GitBrowser
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I am super thrilled to announce the release of our next brand new product here at RemObjects: GitBrowser.GitBrowser is a native Git version control client for the Mac that aims to be easy and comfortable… … Read more
2 months ago
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aapt, aapt 🎶
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This week is the Android release for Elements.I’m a bit ashamed to admit that over the past couple of years, we have been neglecting the Android toolchain a bit. Google introduced some significant changes to… … Read more
3 months ago
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iOS and macOS Toolchain Improvements
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I have spent the bulk of the past two weeks working on two personal side projects – built in Elements, of course. As is usually the case, this gave me ample opportunity to identify areas… … Read more
4 months ago
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macOS 26 Tahoe Brings a Fresh New Look for Fire
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This week, Apple is releasing macOS 26 “Tahoe,” the next major version of its Mac operating system. Tahoe brings a huge visual design change to macOS, and we’ve taken this opportunity to do some visual… … Read more
5 months ago
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Behind the Build – .2997
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It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these, but this week’s Preview build of Elements, numbered at .2997, has such an astounding amount of stuff in its change log that I thought it… … Read more
7 months ago
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[Codable]
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The new [Codable] aspect makes it easy to add Json and Xml serialization to your classes, without a single line of custom code. … Read more
11 months ago
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CodeBot, v2
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It’s been almost two years since we introduced CodeBot for Fire, and it’s just received a huge update! … Read more
12 months ago
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Announcing Elements Twelve
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Hi everyone.I’m overjoyed to announce the immediate availability of Elements Twelve, the next major version of our multi-language, multi-platform compiler and development suite.What’s in a new version number? As you know, we ship weekly updates… … Read more
2 years ago
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Island/Delphi: Using Delphi APIs from Elements
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With the just-announced Elements Twelve, we have added a major and long-requested new feature to our native-code “Island” platform: support for the Embarcadero Delphi class/object model and – with that – the ability to consume… … Read more
2 years ago
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Two New Oxygene Language Features
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We’ve added two cool new language features to Oxygene this week:Required PropertiesProperties in Oxygene can now be marked with the required directive. The new directive addition mandates explicit initialization of the properties every time an… … Read more
3 years ago
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Introducing CodeBot
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This week’s build of Elements gives a first peek at an exciting new feature we’ve been working on for the Fire IDE: CodeBot.CodeBot is a smart coding assistant that can help you write, analyze and… … Read more
3 years ago
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Core, Core, Core
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Hi everyone. Today’s build of Elements 11, build .2771, brings a first glance at two new experimental features: the ability to run the Elements compiler on .NET Core and — more excitingly — the Water… … Read more
3 years ago
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