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Delphi has amazing support for many internet protocols, in this video, we use a TidTCPClient to telnet into a device and get some temperature sensor data. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
This video has some additional productivity tips from my book Code Faster in Delphi. This time looking at a number of right-click “Quick Edit” options to save some time. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
InputQuery is handy if you want to get a string value from a user, but you can also use it to get multiple values – and prefill those values (which I forgot to mention). Have… … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
If you want nice smooth images on your SpeedButtons, then you are pretty much out of luck as they don’t support proper transparency. In this video, we take a look at this and some options… … Read more
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I use to find this situation very frustrating until I learnt this simple trick. Shift a control when it is completely obscured by other controls … Read more
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This is a first look at the new TControlList that has been added to Delphi 10.4.2 Sydney. It allows for dynamically sized lists and only renders what is required. Watch it on YouTube … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
In this video we see how you can use the GrayscaleFactor property of TImageList to significantly improve the image quality of your menu item images when they are disabled – sounds confusing, watch and learn. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
In this video we build a simple ping utility using the TIdICMPClient Indy component, we then produce a ‘real-time’ graph of the results using TChart. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
In this video, we take a look at a handy shortcut for when you are editing forms. It hides all the non-visual controls, which can get in the way of the layout of your applications…. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
I don’t use the Navigation Bar in the Code Editor as much as I should, but now that I know these cleaver shortcuts I’ll be using it much more. Find out what they are here. … Read more
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DelphiCon was a great success, you can watch my presentation on my YouTube channel, or Embarcadero’s which includes the Q&A, or any other of the great sessions by having a look at the replays. … Read more
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Delphi has been able to build 64-bit applications for quite some time, we are going to write a simple Windows app that allocates 32GB of memory and see what happens. Watch it here. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
In this video, we build a simple application to take a list of names and print name tag labels using FastReports. We are going to do this without writing a single line of code, or… … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
Block selection allows you to select rectangular blocks of text in your code, it’s more useful than it sounds – trust me – watch the video. … Read more
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Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
Yes, my book is finally published, at least in electronic form. To help promote it here are a few keyboard shortcuts related to selection that might help boost your productivity. Watch them in action on… … Read more
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