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Useful reference about disabling specific compiler warnings

Dave Dave Earlier today while working on an IDE plugin, I got the following compiler warnings: [dcc32 Warning] W1029 Duplicate constructor ‘TLineDifference.CreateEqual’ with identical parameters will be inacessible [sic] from C++  [dcc32 Warning] W1029 Duplic… … Read more 11 years ago in C++, compiler, Delphi, directive, error, warning 0

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DWS Mandelbrot Explorer Mark II, and random notes about FireMonkey and threads

Dave Dave The DWS Mandelbrot Explorer, which renders tiles generated by Eric Grange’s tile server, has been updated. The following is a braindump of information about the app, about FireMonkey, about threading, and about how they all… … Read more 11 years ago in Delphi, FireMonkey, multithreading, thread 0

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A unit to enable Direct2D in FireMonkey where possible

Dave Dave A few days ago I posted about FireMonkey’s choice of canvas classes, where it would choose to render via GDI+ instead of via Direct2D.  There were two fixes: one (untested and possibly dangerous) enabled hardware… … Read more 11 years ago 0

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FireMonkey canvas classes and a bugfix to speed up your apps

Dave Dave Everything you need to know about FireMonkey canvases – and a performance boost bugfix for some people as well! I recently posted my first real-world FireMonkey app, which gave a zoomable, scrollable, very interactive view… … Read more 11 years ago 0

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A FireMonkey client for the DWS Terapixel Mandelbrot data set

Dave Dave You may have seen Eric Grange’s precomputed Mandelbrot set data – read the Christmas announcement and the followup. He has generated and is hosting the fractal as a multi-level tiled data set: that is, as a… … Read more 11 years ago 0

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TTransparentCanvas: changing the background color of glowing text

Dave Dave You have probably already seen how to use DrawThemeTextEx on Vista and above to draw text with a white blurry ‘glow’ effect behind it. It’s commonly used when drawing on glass, to ensure that text… … Read more 11 years ago in alpha transparency, alphablend, Delphi, drawthemetextex, ttransparentcanvas 0

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TFireMonkeyContainer – a VCL control for mixing VCL and FMX

Dave Dave I’ve created a small MPL-licensed component called TFireMonkeyContainer.  It’s a VCL control that can host a FireMonkey form – 2D or 3D, it doesn’t matter. This will let you use FireMonkey’s swishy graphics, animations, etc… … Read more 11 years ago in compatibility, Delphi, FireMonkey, FMX, vcl 0

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FireMonkey Fonts and Native Look & Feel

Dave Dave Since XE2 Update 4 was released, there have been a few online complaints (1, 2) about FireMonkey’s fonts on Windows.  I had most of a blog post written explaining why it actually was fine, when I read that… … Read more 13 years ago 0

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Transparent graphics with pure GDI (Part 2) – and introducing the TTransparentCanvas class

Dave Dave This is part 2 of a short series that examines alpha-aware graphics using native GDI only – not GDI+, not DirectX, and not with any other custom non-GDI graphics implementation. This post will cover: Non-rectangular… … Read more 13 years ago in alpha transparency, alphablend, Delphi, ttransparentcanvas 0

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Free ~4GB of disk space used by XE2 installation files

Dave Dave Update: this may not be a good idea – see below. Original post: I run on a rather disk-space-restricted system, with Windows running on a 50GB “disk” in VMWare Fusion.  50GB isn’t much, but it’s a lot… … Read more 13 years ago 0