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VOTEDelphi Tip of the Day – Environment Variables used only by the Delphi IDE
Michael Riley
I wanted a quick, down-and-dirty, reference to only those variables used by the Delphi IDE. Inside the IDE you can navigate to Tool > Options > IDE > Environment Variables. This will list all the… – Details…
5 months ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Auto Adjust FMX StringGrid Column Widths
Michael Riley
I’ve been playing around with the FMX StringGrid for the past three weeks. And I thought… “Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to automatically resize the column widths based on the values in… – Details…
6 months ago in delphi-11.1, FireMonkey, FMX, fmx-desktop, stringgrid
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Book Review: The Hungry Brain
Michael Riley
The Hungry Brain points out how the brain works. The brain (your brain) is conditioned by past food choices and conditions you to make future choices. There are strong cues at play and the stronger… – Details…
10 months ago in Book Review
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Book Review: Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey (Part 1)
Michael Riley
I purchased the book Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey by Andrea Magni on November 7, 2020. I dove in head first with great enthusiasm only to get derailed early on. It happened when I tried… – Details…
11 months ago in Book Review, FireMonkey, FMX
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Tip of the Day – How to change the text color of a PDF document.
Michael Riley
I was reading Andrea Magni’s book Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey and realized I am missing pages 105-156. Packt Publishing is having a new print copied sent to me. Anyway, the PDF copy of the book is 100%… – Details…
11 months ago in tip-of-the-day
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FMX Desktop – Restrict Form Size on Windows and macOS
Michael Riley
I’m in the process of porting over an old VCL application to FMX. At this time I’m only concerned with creating a desktop application that will run on Windows and macOS. One of the VCL… – Details…
12 months ago in cross-platform, fmx-desktop, Mac OSX, windows
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The Biggest Mistake I Made in 2021
Michael Riley
I know this year isn’t over yet but I’m pretty sure I won’t make a bigger mistake between now and January 1st. Mike has been selling a software product written in Turbo Pascal & Delphi for… – Details…
1 year ago in marketing
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Delphi: 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years 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…
2 years ago
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