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The welcome screen in Delphi 11 has been enhanced, it’s now based around VCL controls, and can be customised! Find out how here. … Read more
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New in Delphi 11 is the record helper for TDateTime in the System.DateUtils unit. This delightful addition to Delphi can make date and time operations look much cleaner in your code. Watch the video. … Read more
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In Delphi 10.4 (and perhaps earlier) TStringDynArray has better type assignment capabilities, allowing for more concise code. In this video, I demonstrate loading a ListBox with a directory listing in a single line of code. … Read more
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TZipFile allows you to handle zip files in Delphi without relying on a third party library – it’s pretty good, but I’ve found a bug in it. In this video, I explain the bug, create… … Read more
3 years ago in Movie0
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Cleaning up your uses clauses, removing any redundant units, and moving units from the interface to implementation can improve your compile times and the performance of the Delphi IDE, particularly for versions before 10.4. Watch… … Read more
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Managed records are a fantastic addition to the Delphi language, they were introduced in Delphi 10.4. In this video, we look at creating and assigning managed records. … Read more
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Did you know you can mask input on InputQuery? I didn’t until recently – and it is a very cool feature (if not very obscure). Find out how to do it in this video. … Read more
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The new(ish) TVirtualImageList and TImageCollection components are a fantastic way of helping your VCL applications scale correctly between different DPI and scaling settings in Windows. Find out how to use them in this video. … Read more
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CnPack is a fantastic productivity tool for Delphi, in this video, we take a quick look at one of its many features called Eval Swap. … Read more
4 years ago in Movie0
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TControlList is a great addition to Delphi 10.4.2, we’ve had a few looks at its usage already, but this time we look at it in a real-world application, and what I’ve had to do to… … Read more
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This time we look at using LiveBindings with TControlList and do some resizing magic so that we don’t waste any screen space. … Read more
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Delphi has amazing support for many internet protocols, in this video, we use a TidTCPClient to telnet into a device and get some temperature sensor data. … Read more
4 years ago in Movie0
Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
This video has some additional productivity tips from my book Code Faster in Delphi. This time looking at a number of right-click “Quick Edit” options to save some time. … Read more
4 years ago in Movie0
Welcome to LearnDelphi.tv
InputQuery is handy if you want to get a string value from a user, but you can also use it to get multiple values – and prefill those values (which I forgot to mention). Have… … Read more
4 years ago in Movie0
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If you want nice smooth images on your SpeedButtons, then you are pretty much out of luck as they don’t support proper transparency. In this video, we take a look at this and some options… … Read more
4 years ago in Movie0