Archive for the ‘OS X FMX’ Category
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:
- the
FrameworkType element in your .dproj file
- the types of form files your unit embeds as resources which is either
{$R *.dfm} for VCL or {$R *.fmx} for FMX.
References:
David Nottage:
It has to do with whether there’s {$R *.fmx} or {$R *.dfm} in the unit. You may be able to get away with renaming the .dfm file to .fmx, and changing the directive in the unit.
Jeroen Wiert Pluimers:
Your .dproj file tells you what kind of application it is (FMX or VCL) in the FrameworkType element 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. …
Posted in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 3 Comments »
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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/06
The @appmethod secret.
Wow. Out of the blue, I just read Embarcadero Launches AppMethod, A New Multi-Device Development Platform For Native Apps | TechCrunch. And I’m impressed.
In short:
At SXSW 2014 (which is running now, its agenda has a schedule from March 7th till March 16th), Embarcadero announces appmethod, to be released in beta on March 18th, 2014 for building native cross platform applications. Many have found out you can apply for the beta at www.appmethod.com.
More and more people are bumping into the appmethod link, for instance on FaceBook, on Google Plus, at Delphi Bistro and #Appmethod starting with the @appmethod secret by Joy Ruff.
Below are a few my observations from following all of the above links. Read them, especially the TechCrunch. I expect interesting posts from others to follow really soon now (:.
I’m only a few hours ahead of you readers, but I’m having a positive vibe just for these reasons: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Android, C++, Delphi, Delphi XE5, Development, iOS Development, JSON, Mobile Development, Object Pascal, OS X FMX, Pascal, SOAP/WebServices, Software Development | Tagged: embarcadero, Multi-Device, TechCrunch | 15 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/06/19
I had a bit of trouble getting into CodeRage Mobile: somehow the confirmation email never reached the pluimers.com servers. After retrying today, @EmbarcaderoTech sent a GotoMeeting link that worked.
Later I will try to trace back about the mail issue (:
I’m in now, and since I usually loose the QA information, here is a dump of the QA for today so far.
Will try to find time for post editing and getting the URLs clickable.
Welcome to CodeRage Mobile! Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE4, Development, FireMonkey, JavaScript/ECMAScript, jQuery, OS X FMX, Scripting, Software Development | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/01
This is more elaborate English version of a short Dutch message I recently sent to explain the differences between VCL and FMX:
Do not regard FMX as a replacement for VCL: they are different kinds of frameworks.
VCL is a wrapper around Windows Controls. In itself, it has not much functionality: it exposes the underlying Windows functionality. The exception are data aware controls that provide basic functionality for writing data aware applications. There is a huge 3rd party market for extending VCL support, for instance providing extra Windows functionality, enriching data aware behaviour (look at all those fancy data aware grids), and many more.
FMX is the FireMonkey X-platform framework. Major functionalities are vector based 2D, 3D drawing and controls, and support for styles and composition.
When introducing FMX in Delphi XE2, Embarcadero also introduced a new way of data binding that is shared with FMX and VCL. FMX extends this a bit to some basic data aware controls.
Gone are most of the platform specific features like drag & drop, full blown Windows Shell ListViews, etc. There are some controls that manifests themselves differently on each supported platform (like Pickers), but most of that is currently left to the 3rd party FMX component market.
So if you want FMX to replace VCL, then be prepared for quite some shopping in the 3rd party market.
CLX tried to be a full blown cross platform VCL replacement, but that didn’t work very well.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Delphi XE4, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | Tagged: component market, data binding, fmx, software, technology, vcl, windows controls | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15
I mailed the DelphiFeeds people to add the MonkeyStyler Blog by Mike Sutton.
It is a nice Delphi related blog focussing on FireMonkey stuff.
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2005, Delphi 2006, Delphi 2007, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2010, Delphi 3, Delphi 4, Delphi 5, Delphi 6, Delphi 7, Delphi 8, Delphi x64, Delphi XE, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE3, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/05
A long while ago I read about Embarcadero Discussion Forums: Barry Kelly on LLVM … I think it was 2010, the thread is gone now (probably because the Embarcadero forum index does not go back more than one year), but the title still shows up at Google search: Barry+Kelly+on+LLVM
Barry Kelly is one of the Delphi compiler engineers, so it got me thinking and made me archive some links (I wish I had archived the content as well as the Wayback Machine didn’t archive some defunct links.)
Today Paweł Głowacki presents the Mac and Mobile Development for Windows Developers event and indicated future Delphi compiler platform targets like ARM will indeed make use of the The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure Project..
(if you still want to come: you are welcome, there are a few spots left; The event is June 5, 2012 at 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM
at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven Conference Center, The Strip).
Delphi leveraging LLVM for ARM is important in more than a few ways: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 10 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/02/21
Some links that I found useful for doing FireMonkey and development for OS X or iOS:
–jeroen
Posted in Delphi, Development, FireMonkey, OS X FMX, Software Development | 2 Comments »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 