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Category Archives: Delphi
Latest Delphi XE3 Update 1
Many of us have been eagerly waiting for the first significant update to Delphi XE3 in the hope that many of the bugs in FM2 will be fixed. Alas no. Of the 63 bugs report on the public QC system, … Continue reading
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Clipping Rectangles in FireMonkey
In experimenting with FireMonkey I came across what I thought was a non-obvious trick related to creating clipping rectangles in FireMonkey. In VCL we had the CreateRectRgn from the Windows API that allowed us to create areas when drawing commands would not … Continue reading
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The Delphi Color Palette
This is the Delphi color palette, both ‘normal’ and ‘web’ colors. The ‘normal’ colors start at red and end at black. The ‘web’ colors start at Moccasin. see http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/en/Colors_in_VCL) for more information.
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Delphi XE3 Released
This week Embarcadero (Borland in the old days) released the latest version of their flagship product, Delphi XE3. One of the major issues in the earlier version, XE2, was the problem of fuzzy fonts when displaying text, particularly in the TMemo component. This made it almost … Continue reading
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HTML5 from Embarcadero
For those who are interested I snagged a screen-shot of the new HTML5 development kit that will be released this quarter by Embarcadero. I obtained the screen-shot from the XE3 preview video. It looks interesting, I can see an application … Continue reading
Rounded TPanel in Delphi
I came across this rather nice bit code submitted by Andreas Rejbrand on stackoverflow, thought I’d repeat it here. For those not familiar with Delphi, Delphi has really great support for component development, better than any other programming platform I’ve used. … Continue reading
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Fuzzy Fonts Gone
Embarcardero has had some difficulties in releasing issue free versions of their new cross-platform development tool XE2. One of the most visible was the inability to display clear fonts in controls. Most noticeable was the TMemo control which can be used to … Continue reading
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Update 4 for XE2 Released
For those interested in cross platform Delphi XE2 development, the company has just released update 4. This has improvements and bug fixes to the new cross platform Firemonkey framework. The list of bug fixes can be found at: http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/42090 Note … Continue reading
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Lightweight XML Parser
To those of you who read and write basic XML, the thought of using the DOM or some other monstrosity may make you think twice about using XML. No more excuses as I just came across a post by Dennis … Continue reading
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FireMonkey needs TLC
There is an interesting in depth blog by Chris Rolliston on some of the issues he has encountered with the recently released FireMonkey framework that comes with Delphi XE2. A couple of areas that struck me include the issues relating to “Keyboard handling beyond … Continue reading
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