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 Tools > Options > IDE > Environment Variables. This will list all the… – Details…
11 months ago in tip-of-the-day0
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…
1 year ago in tip-of-the-day0
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-day0
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…
3 years ago in csv, dataset, firedac, tip-of-the-day0
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…
3 years ago in datamodule, tip-of-the-day0
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…
3 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’m creating a simple database program to explore how SQLite works within Delphi. I want to be able to switch between three databases: Album, Test, and World. So I added a TComboBox and populated the… – Details…
3 years ago in Source Code, tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I am not a full-time Delphi guy. So, when I’m learning Delphi by reading OPC (other people’s code) I want to make the best of my time. I was studying some code from Cary Jensen… – Details…
3 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I’m working on updating my old flagship product and I ran into an issue where a file kept getting deleted on startup. I could not for the life of me figure out where this was… – Details…
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
It’s been over 7 years since I dove into the mystical world of rounding numbers within Delphi. It’s amazing how much code actually gets written in support of the main stuff an application does. I… – Details…
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
I tend to be a scatter-brain when it comes to Delphi.Really? Tend to be? “No Gunny. You are a scatter-brain when it comes to Delphi.” I can hear all of you who know me saying… – Details…
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
Today’s Delphi Tip of the Day is about resolving “which came first, the chicken or the egg”. Because Delphi is a strongly typed language you can’t refer to something until it’s been defined. However, there… – Details…
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
Michael Riley
Today’s Delphi Tip of the Day is all about consistent naming conventions. Consistency in the Delphi and Object Pascal language makes it easier to read and comprehend the code.I have often wondered why the “A”… – Details…
4 years ago in tip-of-the-day0
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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 Tools > Options > IDE > Environment Variables. This will list all the… – Details…
11 months ago in tip-of-the-day
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