Saturday, June 4, 2022

Delphi Tip of the Day - Auto Adjust FMX StringGrid Column Widths

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 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...
Monday, February 21, 2022

Book Review: The Hungry Brain

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The Hungry Brain points out how the brain works. The brain (your brain) is conditioned by past food choices and conditions you to make futur...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

Book Review: Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey (Part 1)

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I purchased the book Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey by Andrea Magni on November 7, 2020. I dove in head first with great enthusiasm ...
Saturday, January 15, 2022

Tip of the Day - How to change the text color of a PDF document.

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I was reading  Andrea Magni 's book  Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey  and realized I am missing pages 105-156. Packt Publishing i...
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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