For those how are interested in FireMonkey, I made some screenshots of some DXScene sample app.
It may give you some good starting point about the features of the upcoming Delphi XE2 user interface components.
Tag - CrossPlatform
2011-08-08
Our mORMot won't hibernate this winter, thanks to FireMonkey
2011-08-08. Open Source › mORMot Framework
Everybody is buzzing about FireMonkey...
Our little mORMot will like FireMonkey!
Here is why...
2010-08-14
FPC and Delphi: toward a "fratricidal war"?
2010-08-14. Pascal Programming
Speaking about [upcoming] 64 bit Delphi compiler, I did forecast they will surely release their compiler 5 years later than FPC's... hoping they will follow the FPC way, just as Intel did about 64 bits instructions, against AMD.
What I was referring to is that AMD was the first to publish a 64 bit x86
CPU, with a new instruction set. Intel released somewhat later their own 64 bit
x86 CPU, following the same instruction set.
There are some variants between AMD and Intel CPU, some dedicated instructions
or implementations.
But most instruction set is perfectly compatible.
And I suspect the more it gets, the less compatible FPC and Delphi will be.
The main difference between Delphi and FPC is that the first is a business company project (Embarcadero), the second an Open Source solution. They are not two billions dollars companies fighting each other, with some state-level institutions watching about any unfair competition or monopoly... FPC compiler is technically a great and robust project, but EMB follows business rules. I don't think anyone will play "Anti-monopoly" in favor of FPC.
2010-08-10
Writing Delphi code for 64 bits compiler
2010-08-10. Pascal Programming
There will be an upcoming 64 bits Delphi compiler. Embarcadero promised it.
Florian (the architect of FPC) showed a first "Hello world" program for Win64 in March 2006.This was remarkable since GCC and the binutils don't even support this target at this time.
In fact, FPC used its Internal linker on Win32 and Win64 platforms, just like Delphi does.
Here are some points on how you could make your code ready to compile under FPC 64 bits, therefore (I hope) under future Delphi 64 bits compiler.
2010-08-06
Save object, stop class hegemony!
2010-08-06. Pascal Programming
In a recent thread in the Embarcadero
Discussion Forums, Vedran Vuk posted some questions about object
keyword.
His purpose was to use object instead of class to improve speed and memory
consumption:
I do use classes. I just want to use objects on smaller classes that don't really need initialization or RTTI. Plus, I can directly operate on it like a record with no need for constructors and it can be sealed and has inheritance. Every byte matters in this case.
Rudy posted on the EMB forum that
I have the same requirement sometimes, for example for our framework or for low-level units.The "object" type is deprecated. As was said, it mainly exists for compatibility with old Turbo Pascal. That is why it is not documented very well. It's use is not promoted.
I do like such plain-old object type, and don't want to see this object
feature marked as deprecated in future EMB versions.
2010-07-27
Hyphenation in Delphi
2010-07-27. Open Source › Open Source libraries
We made some years ago a Delphi unit for hyphenation of text.
Such an unit, together with our SynPdf library for example, could be useful in your application. So we released the source!
2010-03-28
Mac OS X Stack Alignment, asm and trolls
2010-03-28. Pascal Programming
In a very interesting comment, PhiS spoke about the Mac OS X Stack Alignment problem, and the way asm code should be written for the future Cross Platform Delphi compiler. Here are some (hope without any Troll hidden) reflections I went through.
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