Tag: coding

In this Learn Delphi video, we will take a look at another interesting feature in FireMonkey. Alister Christie will demonstrate to us how to create a list in a FireMonkey multi-device application using RAD Studio Berlin where the item height automatically adjusts itself depending on the content. In this video, he will clearly explain how to calculate text dimensions and…

We cannot deny the fact that windows program development can be a very tedious process. The scope of it is seemingly limitless and there are just too many areas to explore. Whether you are a beginner who wants to learn more about Delphi or an expert who wants to expand his coding proficiency, Alister Christie of Learn Delphi TV has…

In this video, Alister Christie of Learn Delphi TV will give us an overview of the REST Debugger tool in Delphi and will demonstrate to us how to use it to connect to Twitter using the OAuth Authentication method. The REST Debugger in Delphi is a tool for making ad hoc requests. With this tool, you can use different authentication…

Today, we are learning another obscure syntax from Alister Christie of Learn Delphi TV. In this new Learn Delphi Video, he will learn more about the ThreadVar and how does it differ from the local variables? It is interesting to note that the code with the threadvar is invalid syntax. A threadvar needs to have a unit scope rather than…

Alister Christie has shared his knowledge about Delphi programming through his YouTube channel where both beginners and experts can benefit from. In most of his Learn Delphi Video tutorials, Alister will help you learn Delphi in the most efficient and most effective ways. With his lessons, you will learn how to program faster and better in windows program development and…

In this short and quick video by Alister Christie of LearnDelphi.tv, he will be showing us rather an unusual trick. In this new Learn Delphi Video, Alister will create a simple Windows app using the VCL Application in Delphi. While Delphi has been able to build 64-Built applications for quite some time, the video above will show us a simple…

Here comes another simple yet surprisingly useful trick provided by Delphi MVP Alister Christie. In this new Learn Delphi video, he will teach us how to develop windows 10 app or write a simple application that allows you to take a list of names and print name tag labels. However, this application will be done without writing a single line…

Alister Christie of LearnDelphi TV has been providing us with some useful tips and tricks to help us become more productive in Delphi and windows ide. These include some simple yet surprisingly handy keyboard shortcuts that will help us avoid wasting too much time in typing and hovering or waving the mouse. He even published a book that helps us…

Are you working with FireDAC in Delphi or windows ide? FireDAC is a unique set of Universal Data Access Components for developing multi-device database applications for Delphi. It provides methods to sort, filter, or locate a specific record in the dataset. To sort the dataset by field values, the application uses the IndexFieldNames property. It supports multiple fields, case-insensitive, and…

Alister Christie recently launched a book entitled Code Faster in Delphi. As what the title of the book connotes, the book will teach and help you to become more productive and efficient in Delphi IDE. This video is part of his DelphiCon presentation in which he will share some great fraction of his book. Some of these include effective keyboard…