This is a free add-on for Windows File Manager that provides some useful hot keys and features.
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FireMonkey Panel tricks – Panel Color and Transparent Panels
Change the color of a Delphi FireMonkey panel or make a FireMonkey panel transparent.
Use this FireMonkey panel trick to change the color of a Delphi FireMonkey panel or make a FireMonkey panel transparent
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Delphi Performance Tuning – Creating 500 Panels on a Form
I needed to create 500 panels on a form for a game that I was assisting another person with … and Delphi was choking. It was taking 20 seconds to do this. Not cool. We had to find a way to speed it up. This is what we did …
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Delphi 2D controls in 3D (FireMonkey) – presentation 1st March 2017, Brisbane Australia
I am doing a remote presentation this week on “Displaying and Animating 2D FireMonkey controls in 3D”. This will be at the Australia Delphi User Group’s meeting in Brisbane
Dynamic SQL in a SELECT … using an embedded function in Oracle 12
You can include dynamic SQL in a SELECT statement in Oracle 12 by using an embedded function. Ill show you how
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Fix object is not visible in Delphi’s Live Bindings Designer
I recently hit a problem where an object on a form was not visible in Delphi’s Live Bindings Designer. Ill show you how I fixed that
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Popup menu for a Delphi Firemonkey form
Unlike VCL forms, Delphi FireMonkey forms do not have a PopupMenu property. So how can you show a popup menu when the user clicks the Right Mouse Button ?
You have to code it yourself and its pretty easy to do. The tricky bit is converting the X/Y position from the forms local co-ordinate system to global co-ordinates. Ill show you to do that.
