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VOTEDelphi: Inheriting Parent Properties
Michael Riley
The ability to inherit Parent properties is very convenient. Let’s say you have a form with several controls on that form. If you wanted to change the default font from “Tahoma” to “Segoe UI” wouldn’t… – Details…
2 months ago in Delphi, delphi-nugget
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CodeRage 3 Replays – Oldies but Goodies
Michael Riley
This morning I was looking for a video on how to debug an application with the Delphi IDE. I came across a two-minute video on YouTube by Francois Gaillard. It was a teaser video intended… – Details…
2 months ago in coderage-replays
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Mobile Storage Access (Note to Self)
Michael Riley
I am nowhere near creating apps for the mobile community. That doesn’t mean I won’t be in the future. So, I’m writing this as a “Note to Self” so when the time comes I’ll have… – Details…
4 months ago in android, mobile-storage, note-to-self
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Delphi Form/Code Separation (CodeRage 9 2014)
Michael Riley
I just re-watched an excellent video by David Schwartz on form/code separation. Schwartz gave this presentation during a 2014 Code Rage 9 session. Schwartz says the majority of Delphi Form-to-Form code he has seen uses what… – Details…
5 months ago in dependency injection
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Toggle Visibility On/Off
Michael Riley
I’m porting over one of my Delphi 5 VCL, desktop applications to FMX. The target audience are Windows and macOS users. I’m not focused on mobile at this juncture. I’m spending quite a bit of… – Details…
5 months ago in FMX, tip-of-the-day
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Turbo Boost Your Delphi Knowledge – Become a Docwiki Ninja Warrior
Michael Riley
I’ve made a commitment to learn FireMonkey. My flagship software product, Zilch Standard, turned 30 years old in 2021 and I still don’t have a macOS version. I’ve got macOS consumers who buy my Windows® software… – Details…
6 months ago in dockwiki, FireMonkey
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Video: What’s New in 10.4.2 – With Timestamp Jumps
Michael Riley
I just watched the “What’s New with 10.4.2” Embarcadero video. It sounds like there was a lot of quality code fixes put in place. One thing that surprised me is the ability to open the… – Details…
6 months ago in Delphi
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30 Year Old Delphi/Turbo Pascal App Still Relevant
Michael Riley
Once upon a time there was an enthusiastic, ambitious, twenty-seven year old man who spent sixty dollars on a two-inch thick book with a funny looking floppy-disk measuring exactly five-and-a-quarter inches tucked in the back…. – Details…
9 months ago
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Applications Built With Delphi ( Add yours with 3 clicks )
Michael Riley
Here is a link to a web page I found that lists applications built with Delphi.https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Built_With_DelphiThe best part about this site… you can add your own software if it’s not listed. It comes with a… – Details…
1 year ago in Delphi
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The question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is not just for kids.
Michael Riley
Stop your busy life for just three-and-a-half minutes. Watch this video.Answer this question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” in the comments.How I use my “Like Buckets”When I grow up, I want… – Details…
1 year ago in goal-setting, goals, life-skills, success, toastmasters, youtube
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How to create a "Cheat Sheet" of your favorite @Lynda courses
Michael Riley
I finally purchased Camtasia a couple weeks ago so I could create videos in support the upgrade I’m doing of my Zilch Standard software. This is just an interim upgrade that I’m doing using an… – Details…
1 year ago in camtasia, cheat-sheet, lynda, youtube
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Delphi Class References – Complete List
Michael Riley
I mistakenly hit “Publish” instead of “Save” last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. Oh well… it is what it is. If you’ve read some of my earlier posts… – Details…
1 year ago
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Export to CSV
Michael Riley
This weekend I had a bunch of data inside a FireDAC FDMemtable and I wanted to play around with that data in Excel. So, the first thing I did was review which data formats Excel… – Details…
1 year ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – First Chance Exception
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of upgrading a very old Delphi program that I wrote with my Turbo Pascal, top-down, structured-programming, mindset. One of the major updates I want is for the data to be in… – Details…
1 year ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Object Inspector Search
Michael Riley
I was watching an excellent video on how to use the batch move capabilities within Delphi to import text data into a database and had one of those “What the heck just happened” moments. The… – Details…
2 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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