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VOTEDELPHICON 2023 – User Interface Design with Actions by Ray Konopka
Michael Riley
Konopka does a fantastic job showing how to streamline the User Interface using Actions. This is a must see video from DELPHICON 2023.He starts out showing the typical way of coding in Delphi by using… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi
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Use ChatGPT to Convert Other Language Source Code to Delphi
Michael Riley
If you’ve read some of my previous posts you know how much I’ve struggled to make the paradigm shift from being a top-down, procedural programmer to an OOP programmer. I’ve purchased several books on OOP…. … Read more
2 years ago in ChatGPT, Delphi
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Environment Variables used only by the Delphi IDE
Michael Riley
I wanted a quick, down-and-dirty, reference to only those variables used by the Delphi IDE. Inside the IDE you can navigate to Tools > Options > IDE > Environment Variables. This will list all the… … Read more
2 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Auto Adjust FMX StringGrid Column Widths
Michael Riley
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 a way to automatically resize the column widths based on the values in… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi
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Book Review: The Hungry Brain
Michael Riley
The Hungry Brain points out how the brain works. The brain (your brain) is conditioned by past food choices and conditions you to make future choices. There are strong cues at play and the stronger… … Read more
3 years ago in Books
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Book Review: Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey (Part 1)
Michael Riley
I purchased the book Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey by Andrea Magni on November 7, 2020. I dove in head first with great enthusiasm only to get derailed early on. It happened when I tried… … Read more
3 years ago in Books, Delphi
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Tip of the Day – How to change the text color of a PDF document.
Michael Riley
I was reading Andrea Magni’s book Delphi GUI Programming with FireMonkey and realized I am missing pages 105-156. Packt Publishing is having a new print copied sent to me. Anyway, the PDF copy of the book is 100%… … Read more
3 years ago in tip-of-the-day
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FMX Desktop – Restrict Form Size on Windows and macOS
Michael Riley
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 application that will run on Windows and macOS. One of the VCL… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi
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The Biggest Mistake I Made in 2021
Michael Riley
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 selling a software product written in Turbo Pascal & Delphi for… … Read more
3 years ago in marketing
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Delphi: Inheriting Parent Properties
Michael Riley
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 to change the default font from “Tahoma” to “Segoe UI” wouldn’t… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi
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CodeRage 3 Replays – Oldies but Goodies
Michael Riley
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 Francois Gaillard. It was a teaser video intended… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi
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Mobile Storage Access (Note to Self)
Michael Riley
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 “Note to Self” so when the time comes I’ll have… … Read more
4 years ago in Mobile
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Delphi Form/Code Separation (CodeRage 9 2014)
Michael Riley
I just re-watched an excellent video by David Schwartz on form/code separation. Schwartz gave this presentation during a 2014 Code Rage 9 session. Schwartz says the majority of Delphi Form-to-Form code he has seen uses what… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi
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Delphi Tip of the Day – Toggle Visibility On/Off
Michael Riley
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 focused on mobile at this juncture. I’m spending quite a bit of… … Read more
4 years ago in FMX, tip-of-the-day
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