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Video: What's New in 10.4.2 - With Timestamp Jumps
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 Form Designer...
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Turbo Boost Your Delphi Knowledge - Become a Docwiki Ninja Warrior
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...
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Delphi Tip of the Day - Toggle Visibility On/Off
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 time on...
View ArticleDelphi Form/Code Separation (CodeRage 9 2014)
I just re-watched an excellent video by David Schwartz an Embarcadero MVP. Schwartz gave this presentation during a 2014 Code Rage 9 session. Schwartz says the majority of Delphi code he has seen uses...
View ArticleMobile Storage Access (Note to Self)
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 a nice handy...
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CodeRage 3 Replays - Oldies but Goodies
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 to pique your...
View ArticleDelphi: Inheriting Parent Properties
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...
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The Biggest Mistake I Made in 2021
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 30...
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FMX Desktop - Restrict Form Size on Windows and macOS
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 features I like...
View ArticleTip of the Day - How to change the text color of a PDF document.
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...
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Book Review: Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey (Part 1)
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 to...
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Book Review: The Hungry Brain
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...
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Delphi Tip of the Day - Auto Adjust FMX StringGrid Column Widths
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...
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Delphi Tip of the Day - Environment Variables used only by the Delphi IDE
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...
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The Kinetic Technique by H. A. Overstreet (1925)
Influencing Human Behavior by H. A. Overstreet was published in 1925. I purchased an old hardcover copy of his book over a year ago because, some other book I was reading referred to it as a master...
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Use ChatGPT to Convert Other Language Source Code to Delphi
If you've read some of my previous posts you know how much I've struggled to make the paradigm shift from being a top-down, procedural programmer to an OOP programmer. I've purchased several books on...
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DELPHICON 2023 - User Interface Design with Actions by Ray Konopka
Konopka does a fantastic job showing how to streamline the User Interface using Actions. This is a must see video from DELPHICON 2023.He starts out showing the typical way of coding in Delphi by using...
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DELPHICON 2023: Every APP Trick in Book with Ian Barker
DELPHICON 2023: Every APP Trick in the Book with Ian Barker Timestamp links have been added to each of the individual sections of this presentation.Every App Trick in the...
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Delphi FMX Desktop Development: Part 1
Question: Is FMX Desktop Development Worth It?This is part 1 in a series dedicated to Delphi FMX Desktop development. I am in the process of converting an old VCL application to FMX. When I first...
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Pseudo Code File Logic: Open > New > Save > Save As
Just finished working out the logic for handling file logic:File OpenFile NewFile SaveFile Save AsThis assumes you are keeping track of the following:Current FilenameChanges to file dataI've been...
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