Wednesday, December 15, 2021

FMX Desktop - Restrict Form Size on Windows and macOS

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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 applicatio...
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Friday, December 3, 2021

The Biggest Mistake I Made in 2021

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 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 s...
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Friday, July 30, 2021

Delphi: Inheriting Parent Properties

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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...
Saturday, July 17, 2021

CodeRage 3 Replays - Oldies but Goodies

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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 Fr...
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Saturday, June 5, 2021

Mobile Storage Access (Note to Self)

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 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...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Delphi Form/Code Separation (CodeRage 9 2014)

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I just re-watched an excellent video by David Schwartz on form/code separation. Schwartz gave this presentation during a 2014 Code Rage 9 se...
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Saturday, April 24, 2021

Delphi Tip of the Day - Toggle Visibility On/Off

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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 focus...
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Thursday, April 8, 2021

Turbo Boost Your Delphi Knowledge - Become a Docwiki Ninja Warrior

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I've made a commitment to learn FireMonkey. My flagship software product, Zilch Standard , turned 30 years old in 2021 and I still don...
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Sunday, March 28, 2021

Video: What's New in 10.4.2 - With Timestamp Jumps

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 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 ...
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Thursday, January 7, 2021

30 Year Old Delphi/Turbo Pascal App Still Relevant

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Once upon a time there was an enthusiastic, ambitious, twenty-seven year old man who spent sixty dollars on a two-inch thick book with a fun...
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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Applications Built With Delphi ( Add yours with 3 clicks )

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Here is a link to a web page I found that lists applications built with Delphi. https://delphi.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Quality_Applications_Bui...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The question "What do you want to be when you grow up?" is not just for kids.

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Stop your busy life for just three-and-a-half minutes.  Watch this video. Answer this question, "What do you want to be when you gr...
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Sunday, June 28, 2020

How to create a "Cheat Sheet" of your favorite @Lynda courses

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I finally purchased Camtasia a couple weeks ago so I could create videos in support the upgrade I'm doing of my Zilch Standard software....
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Friday, May 1, 2020

Delphi Class References - Complete List

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I mistakenly hit "Publish" instead of "Save" last night which wound up making this post go live before it was finished. ...
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