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I’m really enjoying RAD Studio 10.4.2, but my journey with it got off to a less than wholesome start. I’d installed from the .iso download and put just a basic Windows platform support in. Shortly… … Read more
3 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi, windows0
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As I’ve made clear many times in conference talks I’m a big fan of FastMM4, the full version Delphi’s built-in memory manager (I haven’t yet tried out FastMM5, which is fully rewritten but now has… … Read more
3 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi, windows0
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A problem surfaced on Stack Overflow recently from a Delphi developer, Tom Byrnes, who discovered that on Android, the Enter (or Return) key no longer triggers the OnKeyDown and OnKeyUp events. This was unfortunate as… … Read more
4 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Some while back I posted a command script (or batch file as we used to call them) that could be used by RAD Studio 10.3 users if they felt the need to change any of… … Read more
4 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Sometimes when a new product is released there are a few ‘teething issues’. That certainly seems to be the case with RAD Studio 10.3 Rio. Both Delphi and C++Builder are hitting a few problems on… … Read more
5 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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RAD Studio 10.3 Rio has just been released for General Availability, as you’ll have doubtless learned from the spree of blog posts on the subject. This is a great new release with a lot of… … Read more
5 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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My CodeRage XII session on Directly Using the Android API has been aired on the Internet. If you saw it I hope it came across reasonably well (interruptions notwithstanding) and might prove useful to you… … Read more
6 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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A whole 5 years ago (!) I did a session for CodeRage 7 on accessing the Android API. This was not long after RAD Studio XE5 introduced support for developing Android applications, and Delphi’s Android… … Read more
6 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Last Tuesday, 24th October I did some sessions at EKON 21, one of which was on Creative Debugging Techniques. During the session there was a section where I was trying to demonstrate an idea or… … Read more
6 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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My development machine in my main week day job does not have some custom hardware that a nearby test machine does. It doesn’t make sense to load up the development environment onto the test machine… … Read more
7 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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Long ago there was an issue with the RAD Studio IDE (Delphi and C++Builder both). It meant that when changing certain project options or switching build configurations, the (XML format) project file would get saved… … Read more
7 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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During CodeRage XI I had a couple of Lightning Talks broadcast on a subject I’ve been intending to write up for quite a long time, but haven’t quite managed to achieve: how to emit debug… … Read more
7 years ago in android, CPlusPlus, Delphi, iphone, Mac, windows0
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Over the years since Delphi 3 various people have written about aspects of Code Templates and Live Templates, but not particularly recently. I find Code Templates fabulously helpful and Live Templates add some real power… … Read more
8 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi0
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My blog editor of choice is proving to be a little quisquous at the moment.Historically I have used Windows LiveWriter, part of Windows Essentials (whose development stopped in 2012, but was still available here (web… … Read more
8 years ago in CPlusPlus, Delphi, windows0
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