The Delphi Cookbook It’s always a pleasure to see a new book come out about technology you work with, especially when that book is not aimed solely at existing developers but is accessible and helpful for those new to the development environment as well. About a month ago, Packt Publishing posted on Google+ asking for expressions […]
Part 2 of a series on how to write an IDE plugin that can paint on the IDE code editor line-by-line along with the code. Introduction The first part of this series examined an area not exposed by the Open Tools API (Delphi’s plugin API): integrating with the code editor. Yet several plugins, such as […]
A number of improvements to TFireMonkeyContainer have been checked in over the past day. New to TFireMonkeyContainer? It is a small open-source VCL component to host a FireMonkey form inside a VCL form, as though it was a normal component. Read more about TFireMonkeyContainer here. What’s changed? Support for the VCL drag-drop system: You can drag and drop […]
At some point we’ve probably all written code to draw text to screen manually, using TextOut, ExtTextOut, DrawText or DrawTextEx depending on how complex the required result was. But have you ever tried to draw fully-justified text, that is, text that adheres to both the left and right boundaries of the destination rectangle? There’s no support […]
TFireMonkeyContainer is a small open-source VCL component that can host a FMX form, allowing you to embed FireMonkey forms inside your VCL application. A 3D FireMonkey form embedded in a VCL application, using TFireMonkeyContainer This post is to note a bugfix that handles the case where instances of TFireMonkeyContainer are freed in a different order […]
Part 1 of a series on how to write an IDE plugin that can paint on the IDE code editor line-by-line along with the code. Introduction: IDE plugins IDE plugins are a mysterious topic. With little official documentation, most material is scattered across a variety of blogs and websites, often out of date and referring […]
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 Duplicate constructor ‘TLineDifference.CreateAdded’ with identical parameters will be inacessible [sic] from C++ This is caused by a record type having two or more constructors taking […]
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 interrelate. I think some points will be interesting to you. Miscellaneous things I’ve learned It turns out that you cannot reliably […]
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 rendering on DirectX9-class hardware, but required editing the FireMonkey source; the second (known safe and tested) enables optimised software rendering […]
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 of the Mandelbrot fractal using the precomputed DWS Mandelbrot tiles. It worked fine on my computer. Those are famous last […]
