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 […]
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 […]
The example application showing a 3D FireMonkey form. On the other tab is a standard 2D form. On Wednesday I announced TFireMonkeyContainer, a VCL control that can host a FireMonkey form, allowing you to mix FireMonkey elements into your VCL app. It was (and is) a new project, and the announcement page listed several known […]
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 in an existing VCL application, either in a form among other controls, or if the host container is client-aligned then […]
