Over the last couple of years, I have been making more use of nested types to organise how my code (behaviour) is organised in an application. If some application behaviour (encapsulated in class A) is part of a broader behaviour (encapsulated in class B), then I will at least consider nesting class A within class B. Continue reading
Today is the last chance for registering for the ADUG Autumn Symposium 2012. The event will be held this Thursday in Melbourne and Friday in Canberra.
Don’t miss your chance to see Bruno Fierens on FireMonkey component development and mobile Intraweb applications, Malcolm Groves on distributed applications and Glenn Stephens on REST clients and servers.
After listening in on the recent Embarcadero webinar Understanding RAD Studio LiveBindings with Cary Jensen I asked a few questions in the Q&A session, like how to notify the framework of changes to property values from within a property setter. I had a keen interest in the webinar after experimenting with LiveBindings as I belive they have great potential. Continue reading
While porting my VCL applications to FireMonkey I needed to find a replacement for the TBitButton from “Additional” palette and so decided to try building my own custom TButton with a graphic on it. Continue reading
While porting my VCL applications to FireMonkey I needed to find a replacement for the TAdvStringGrid from TMS software and so decided to try building my own custom TStringGrid. Continue reading
I have been convinced that FireMonkey provides opportunities to use Delphi in new and exciting ways. I am interested in exploring the possibilities but I also want to maintain as much as possible of the IP that I have built up in Delphi applications to date. To help preserve my current code I embarked on converting the basic functions I currently use to compile under FireMonkey projects and when this required form conversion (Utility Dialogs) I fashioned a DFM to FMX converter Continue reading
The highlight of the Australian Delphi calendar, the ADUG Autumn Symposium 2012 will be held on March 22nd in Melbourne and March 23rd in Canberra. That’s southern hemisphere Autumn in case you were puzzled by those dates 
Bruno Fierens of TMS Software will be speaking on Continue reading
