Yesterday a customer asked me about customizing the FMX dropdown in order to make it consistent with the rest of UI. Specifically, we were trying to change the background of the dropdown list to a semitransparent color. Even if this sounded trivial to me at first, it turned out to be a little tricky, hence […]
The day has come: my book is now available on PacktPub (link) and Amazon (link US, link IT) websites. It has been pre-order only till today, since a couple of … years! 😉 It has been a long journey since I signed the contract with the editor to write this book. It was late 2017, […]
This year CodeRage, the Embarcadero OnLine conference, has a new format and sessions (brief and focused) are available in series. This week topic is “FireMonkey Multi-Device Design series” hosted by Sarina DuPont, Embarcadero Director of Product Management. You can find all details and registration links at this page. I’ve submitted a session introducing FMXER (20 […]
Starting with Android 7.1 (API Level 25, supported out of the box by Delphi 10.3 Rio version) there is a new functionality supported by the OS (specifically by the OS app launcher and most of alternative launchers as well): app shortcuts. You can find all details about this Android capability at this location of the […]
Today, during my session at ITDevCon 9, I have been hit by the typical “demo effect” and my example about TListView customization and LiveBinding’s CustomFormat functionality refused to work. Obviously after a good coffee (we are in Italy, right?) and 5 minutes to rebuild my example from scratch, everything works. Who knows what happened. So […]
The Delphi Community Edition Bootcamp on EmbarcaderoAcademy.com started on September 3rd and will last 8 weeks. It is a great initiative with many outstanding authors giving free lessons over the Delphi product to celebrate the new Community Edition. The first week, focused on the language, was given by the best possible author: Marco Cantù, Embarcadero […]
I am very happy to announce a new version (v1.3) of TFrameStand is now available both on GitHub and on GetIt (Embarcadero’s Package Manager). The new feature list is not huge (I still wish to evolve more this project but time is limited): Added OnAfterHide event Widened binding of common action mechanism to address all TControl […]
Clicca qui per la versione in italiano This post is dedicated to one of the projects I was working in the last two months: V!ktor (the name is inspired to the latin victor: winner). The typical app user is the president of a voting section, who has the responsibility to collect and send affluence data throughout the […]
Click here for the english version Questo post è dedicato ad uno dei progetti a cui ho lavorato in questi ultimi due mesi: V!ktor (il nome deriva, con licenza poetica, dal latino victor: vincitore) è una applicazione mobile pensata per i presidenti dei seggi elettorali e in particolare per permettere l’invio in tempo reale delle comunicazioni […]
English version available at my personal blog. Questo post è dedicato a TFrameStand: un componente per FireMonkey che ho sviluppato in questi ultimi mesi (nel mio tempo libero). Prima di tutto, come reperirlo: il componente (e alcune demo) sono disponibili su GitHub e potete usarlo liberamente. Sull’ultimo numero (45-46) di Blaise Pascal Magazine trovate un […]