Tag: vcl
Playing with Windows 7
I was playing around with some (default Windows) programs these days and noticed that taskbar items for those programs show some cool effects whenever there is some progress going on So I decided to write a little unit…
Read More »[Rant] Actions …
Just a few words out of frustration: Do yourselves a favor and stay away from actions and ribbons in Delphi. At least for a while. If you really need fancy looking menus use JEDI. P.S. This would be…
Read More »Delphi 2009 Language features
Check out this link — pretty much details all the new language features added in Delphi 2009. A big thanks goes to Marco Cantu for preparing this document.
Read More »Thread.Synchronize
A general mistake many Delphi developers are making is accessing GUI classes from other threads directly (in a multi-threaded application). It’s a mistake I was doing for a long time. Eventually I started using SendMessage to synchronize with…
Read More »TSendMail Action
If you’ve ever wondered how to use TSendMail action in ExtActns unit – drop it, it’s useless. I’ve had a few people complaining they don’t know how to set the Recipients and Subject set it – you can’t…
Read More »TActionMainMenuBar Sucks!
Yeah … seriously! Tried to move away from the TMainMenu in Eduka+ today. Spent nearly 3 hours researching and trying out different approaches to make the Action based menu work… It seriously lacks clarity and functionality. So what…
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