Uwe Raabe
This somehow is a follow-up of a CodeRage DE session of mine from 2019 (in German) showing an alternative approach to connect controls to databases. Meanwhile the technology described in that session has become a… … Read more
6 months ago in CmonLib, Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
Some of you might already be aware of my CmonLib, which, according to the GitHub ReadMe, is a collection of several units with different purpose. My intention for this library was to group all those… … Read more
8 months ago in CmonLib, Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
In my recent article Designing in High DPI you may have read about the problems that come with High DPI design and some more or less acceptable workarounds for those. While the latest release of Delphi… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
High DPI support in the Delphi IDE was introduced in Delphi 11 Alexandria. Besides the unavoidable bugs and glitches, which most of have meanwhile been resolved with updates, there has evolved a conceptual discussion about… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
As you may already have heard from others: Delphi 12 is around the corner and I was giving permission by Embarcadero to blog about some new features. This article is about some improvements made to… … Read more
1 year ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
You may remember my previous blog post where I announced I had been collaborating with icon designer Dave Wilkinson over at GlyphLab. I created for him Icon Lab an app that uses his latest huge… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
About half a year ago I blogged about the new SVG icon set from GlyphLab. Although it comes with thousands of icons in all flavors, sometimes there is a need for that one combination with… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
For all of you eagerly waiting for the interesting part of this article – here it is. In case you don’t know what I’m talking about, please read the introductory article first. Let’s recap the essence… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
I think we have to face it: More and more systems are equipped with monitors capable of displaying in higher density and people expect that our apps support these higher resolutions. While not that often,… … Read more
2 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
Those looking for high quality SVG icons now have a new place to look. GlyphLab offers a new Windows 11 style icon set. All icons are delivered in SVG format, so can be converted to… … Read more
3 years ago in programming0
Uwe Raabe
Sometimes actions inside an application need their time. From retrieving data from REST service or a database to scanning your hard disk for all files containing images, there are a plethora of things that can… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
I am happy to announce that with the general availability of Delphi 11 my IDE plugins are updated to fully support the new version. Here are the download links: … Read more
3 years ago in Uncategorized0
Uwe Raabe
High DPI display and 4K Monitors are getting more common these days. Supporting higher settings than 96 dpi is already possible with some of the newer Delphi versions. Nevertheless this is still a time and… … Read more
3 years ago in Delphi, programming0
Uwe Raabe
The full title should be: What is the purpose of the OldCreateOrder property in a form and how does it affect my todays coding?, but it turned out to be too long for a catchy… … Read more
4 years ago in Delphi, programming0