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Firebird News: CopyCat replication engine v. 3.04.0
Ladies and Gentlemen! Microtec Communications is pleased to announce a new release of CopyCat, version 3.04.0! You will find the full list of changes at the end of this email. This release also...
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Delphi Code Monkey: Hey Marco, Here's how to fix Delphi: Make it fast.
The title of this blog post is a bit provocative. I think that Embarcadero is doing well with Delphi and I am excited about XE4. I have been using it. But I need to complain today. I get paid to...
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The road to Delphi: Added support for RAD Studio XE4 in the Delphi IDE Theme...
This entry is just for announce which the Delphi IDE Theme Editor now supports RAD Studio XE4.Installer of the Delphi IDE Theme Editor
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DelphiTools.info: What would get you to buy a newer Delphi version?
This is a practical poll question, what would get you to buy a newer Delphi version? What would you like to see most and foremost, and would most have a use for? To force you to choose, you can only...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Enabling floating form designer in Delphi XE4
Delphi XE4 has an interesting feature removed from previous versions: the floating VCL form designer. You can enable it again easily, at your own risk. While the IDE is not running, launch the registry...
View ArticlePARMAJA: MiniLib on Git
MiniLib, http://sourceforge.net/projects/minilib/Git now is the version control, instead of SubVersion, for 2 of reasons.1 – I like to work offline, commenting and show log, while I can’t have a...
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jed-software.com: XE4 Mobile Tip #2 Loading local HTML content
I’ve already answered this on the newsgroups however it deserves a little more attention.The most important thing to do when deploying additional files with your app is to make sure they are prefixed...
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jed-software.com: XE4 Mobile Tip #1 Disable the GPU Canvas
If you don’t like circles with jagged edges, you can disable the GPU canvas.Using the GPU Canvas:Not using the GPU Canvas:Full image comparison at 200% using Beyond Compare. Click to enlarge to full...
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Delphi Haven: FMX anti-pattern: returning nil rather than raising an...
In the Delphi RTL and VCL, a method called LoadFromFile or the like will raise an exception if the file doesn’t exist or is invalid. Similarly, if an object property getter implements a lazy-loading...
View Articletwm’s blog: experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4
There isn’t yet any official release of GExperts for Delphi XE4 but if you don’t mind a little bit of manual work for installing, you can have it anyway.WARNING: I have just now made this version...
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff: jpluimers
Thomas Mueller is fast: experimental GExperts + code formatter for Delphi XE4 « twm’s blog.–jeroenFiled under: Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, Software Development
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delphi XE4 and AnsiString
I already ported a lot of my applications to Delphi XE4. This represent hundreds of thousands lines of code. All in all this was very easy, coming from XE3. There is only one changed feature that...
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Daniel Magin's Logfile: Using InterBase Lite and InterBase ToGo in Delphi iOS...
Using InterBase Lite and InterBase ToGo in Delphi iOS Applications - Step by Step GuideWith RAD Studio XE4 a new InterBase edition has been rolled out. The existing InterBase edition family (Server,...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Adding Insult to Injury
Having just installed Delphi XE4 “Professional”, provided as part of my employer’s current SA, the initial “Welcome” to the new version, and seemingly the “baked in” Start Here landing page invites me...
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DelphiTools.info: Gaining Visual Basic OLE super-powers
Visual Basic in its various incarnations and off-springs has super-powers when it comes to OLE Automation, aka late-bound COM through IDispatch.Super Powers?For instance, when doing MS Word OLE...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Getting Network Share List
Network neighborhood can be obtained programmatically in any application. It’s just a matter of a single Windows API call to the NetShareEnum function. MSDN publish the complete description of...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Automate Microsoft Office from Delphi
Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and others) are applications which can be fully automated from another application. Everything you can do by hand can also be done programmatically from another...
View ArticleBehind the connection: Delphi XE4 MS-Office components
Delphi XE4 is delivered with 3 sets of Microsoft Office components (Word, Excel, Outlook, Power Point and Access): Office 2000, Office XP and Office 2010. None is installed by default. To install...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: Qualified Enum Reference That Fails to Compile in XE4 (and...
Running through some of my code last night, putting them through the new XE4 compiler, threw up a real oddity: Some code that used to compile just fine, which no longer compiles in XE4 and which should...
View ArticleTe Waka o Pascal: iOS “Support” Prior to XE4 ?
Some people have taken issue with my chagrin at the way in which iOS support has been mis-handled in Delphi, implying or in some cases directly stating, that iOS was only ever in beta before and so I...
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