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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/12
I forgot both to archive this 10+ year old G+ post and schedule a blog post about it This is nice #geekporn. ASCII Art that’s truly useful.….
ASCII to bezier drawn images in a very clever way.
Found it back when searching for prior blog posts on ASCII art, because of my yesterday’s blog-post ASCII Art Archive, so here it finally is: the links about how to go from ASCII art to bezier images. Have fun!
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Posted by jpluimers on 2024/05/14
Besides a cool portable spectrometer and software (written in Delphi), [WayBack] Field Tested Systems also has a really nice poster showing the spectrogram fingerprints of all the elements:
Via Delphi: 2 things to check when FMX/VCL units are inserted when you use VCL/FMX components (G+ post by Tom Field)
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/10/12
www.fmxrtl.com – BiDi support for Firemonkey
Arabic, Hebrew in FireMonkey!
Don’t you wanted to use the fastest development environment, to make an for middle east?
Now it is possible to create an app in Arabic, Hebrew, or Farsi) with Delphi FireMonkey for all environments.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/02/04
In case I ever need to do some Bezier curve coding in Delphi: [WayBack] GitHub – zhaoyipeng/FMXComponents: Firemonkey Opensource Components
Via: [WayBack] Interesting set of components for FireMonkey – Christen Blom-Dahl – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/19
On G+, Tom Field bumped in the [WayBack] issue that the IDE would add VCL units to the uses list when putting FMX controls on a form.
I’ve observed it the other way around as well, and there are two things you need to check:
FrameworkType element in your .dproj file
VCL or FMX values are allowed, but in the past more values were used, see Delphi .dproj files: FrameworkType and FormType.{$R *.dfm} for VCL or {$R *.fmx} for FMX.References:
{$R *.fmx}or{$R *.dfm}in the unit. You may be able to get away with renaming the.dfmfile to.fmx,and changing the directive in the unit..dprojfile tells you what kind of application it is (FMX or VCL) in theFrameworkTypeelement and the IDE should respond to that correctly.
–jeroen
Source: [WayBack] In the Berlin Update 2 IDE. I’m working on a multi-device app I’m creating. …
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/04
This shows you how to do 2.5D isometric projection in Delphi using Firemonkey: [WayBack] Firemonkey/Isometric at master · tothpaul/Firemonkey.
[WayBack] Isometric projection – Wikipedia.
Via: [WayBack] I wonder what the best approach would be to use FireMonkey to develop an isometric 2.5D game in the “classic” way… – Fl Ko – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/08/01
[Archive.is] Quark Cube – YouTube:
We create tutorials. And all this without the usual stuff. We want to show how you can work with FireMonkey. Our tutorials are not available as source code. We want to show you a look more, and yes, we do it. Fast, reliable, targeted, unambiguous and ahead of its time. We love Delphi with FireMonkey. #ILoveDelphi
The vides are at [Archive.is] (70) Quark Cube – YouTube
Via Dave Nottage
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/07
If you run into animation problems in Delphi Tokyo 10.2 update 2, then read [WayBack] … In particular I cannot use the use the animation to change the tab in a TabControl… – Raffaele Miola – Google+.
It is likely that RSP-19525 (10.2 Tokyo Release 2 breaks Animation under Android – App hangs).
Some temporary fixes that might help you are here:
I think that for cross platform and especially mobile development means you need to use tools from vendors that live and breathe that, by constantly showing they master these subjects for instance having good apps in the app stores and examples that are regularly updated to the ever changing field.
I really wonder what the rest of the Delphi community thinks about that.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/08/31
A while ago, I noticed the UCL as a suffix in a few 3rd party Delphi package names.
It was from a version close to the very first FireMonkey release. FireMonkey is based on the OpenGL based VGScene (and in part DirectX based [WayBack] DXScene) which was bought form KSDev in 2011.
Contrary to VGScene and DXScene, the early versions of FireMonkey were buggy and when updating to a new version you had to cope with a lot of breaking interface changes. In Delphi XE2 for instance, there were two totally different implementations (FMX for Windows and OS X; FMI for iOS) that merged after Delphi XE3.
Around Delphi XE6 it became more stable and now – apart from some design issues I wish they had done differently – it is coming along sort of OK for Windows and for cross-platform development.
Compared to the VCL you have a lot less HiDPI issues but the designer is much more layered (which gives you the same design-time pain as WPF) and the default “Live Binding” is still buggy as hell (though if you use something like MVVM or roll your own UI bindings it becomes bearable).
A long time ago – during the Kylix era – Borland developed the cross-platform CLX library which – for the UI part – was based on Qt and ran on both Windows and Linux.
It looks like before the KSDev take over there seemed to be a UCL (would that have been for Universal Component Library or Universal Control Library?) as the name pops up in quite a few package names.
Browsing through the source code I could not find any hints so I really wonder what UCL was about. Was it again based on Qt (which compared to the Kylix era has become much more mature and has widespread use) or a different technology like LCL (given that in Delphi XE2 they used FreePascal to compile for iOS)? I rule out OpenGL as otherwise the VGScene acquisition would have been done a lot earlier.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2014/09/15
Simon Stuart yesterday posted a very interesting post on G+ that explains on this (edited) topic:
#Rendering I was having a conversation last night … with +David Berneda regarding rendering performance improvements for FireMonkey applications.
Specifically, custom drawing/rendering on a FireMonkey Canvas.I just want to summarize the points I raised, and some of the conclusions I’ve come to having been working with rendering in FireMonkey since the end of June this year.
–jeroen
via: Simon Stuart rendering performance improvements for FireMonkey applications. Specifically, custom drawing/rendering on a FireMonkey Canvas.
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE5, Delphi XE6, Delphi XE7, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 3 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 