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John Kouraklis

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  1. From business point of view, it is correct move. 

     

    Only a handful of companies have the capacity and resources to do everything. For the rest, it is vital to recognise what their core skills are and how they can align them with the strategic goals. Directing valuable resources to peripheral goals is a waste of resources and of customers' money.

     

    So, by offering FMXLinux they basically:

     

    1. Provide new ways to use Delphi without devoting (and wasting) their own resources as it is clear for some time now that EMB does not see Linux GUI as strategic option (for now at least)

    2. Attract or retain customers who have an interest on that platform

    3. Allow a third party to provide support (again preservation of resources). This third party (in theory and in practice I hope) has resources to support GUI Linux better than EMB

    4. Keep their resources focused on the core business (compiler development, etc.)

     

    I don't have any experience with FMXLinux and not really target that platform at the moment but I hope the package worths its money  


  2. Hi,

    IDE adds an extra <ProjectExtensions> line at the end of the .dproj file.

     

    The IDE opens the project correctly but when I compile it using MSBuild it fails due to the duplication.

     

    Has anyone observed this before or knows why this is happening? The second entry does not always appear but I haven't figured out when it happens.

     

    Thanks

     


  3. Hi, 

    I want to be able to retrieve the currency code from the local settings. I've got a list with currency codes and countries, etc.

     

    For example, if the system is in the US, I would like to get the USD code, etc.

     

    The IFMXLocaleService.GetCurrentLangID returns a generic 'en' from which I am not able to retrieve the currency symbol.

     

    Anyone any ideas?

     

    Thanks a lot

     

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  4. Debugging is not working for me....IDE always complains that can not bind to the port is already in use (???)

     

    My apps are quite modular but this does not really help the linking phase which is what takes ages. I suppose if I had release compiled versions of unchanged units this would speed things up but I think it is difficult to manually manage this.

     

    I don't know if the signing can be skipped at all? The IDE produces an unsigned version but this is not what is used in the end.

     

    One time I started looking at how I could build and deploy an app outside IDE (eg. from command line) but at the moment this is not possible as the deployment of assets is managed only by the deployment manager.

     

    I wonder if tools from other dev environments can be used. For example, we could have a command line tool that runs MSBuild and then some external tools but I don't know how they work


  5. No, I was not able to open the ancestor frame. I could see the code but not the design.

     

    So, I totally removed the frame, created a new one and added the code again.

     

    Very annoying and I don';t feel very confident tbh but I use frames all the time. They are very convenient no matter what

     

    @Uwe Raabe Sorry, that's difficult. Thanks anyway

     

    @Der schöne Günther How do you keep backups of the registry? Manually or you use some kind of script/app?


  6. Hi,

    all of the sudden, my IDE throws an error that it can not create the ancestor form (frame).

     

    I've got a base frame TBaseFrame and another frame inherits from it. When I try to open the frame in the IDE, I get the error message but the application runs and fine.

     

    I tried to remove and readd the frame but still the problem exists.

     

    Any suggestions?

     


  7. Hi,

    I would like to show some ads in an FMX application. 

    I checked TBannerAd but it seems to work only on Android and iOS. I'd like to show ads on Win and Mac as well.

    What are the options?

    Has anyone used TBannerAd? What's the experience?

    I tried to run the demo that comes with Delphi but in complains that "Java class JAdSize could not be found". I am trying it on Android Nouget.

    Thanks


  8. 1 hour ago, Andrea Raimondi said:

    ... and there has to be a reasonable expectation of privacy, which just isn't there when the Government can access all and any communications easily. 

     

    Whereas you feel safe with American companies which hand over everything on you to NSA and FBI as they do not risk to end up in jail.

     

    Come on, OrangeUI is probably an individual who sells his product.

     

    I am sure all of us have bought components from such individuals in the past.

     

    And, really, would you feel more comfortable if the site was in English and the download link was a direct file? or if the domain was orangeui.com?

     

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  9. It is unfair to judge the website based on our western standards...

     

    It is a matter of the markets they grow in. You can, also, see the difference in their demos which feel like a huge spam and p*rn campaign. But this format is so common in China and Japan.

     

    The components are amazing though...lot's of features and they work very smoothly in Android. Haven't tried in iOS 

     

    Any comments about the components?  

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  10. Hi,

    does anyone have any experience with OrangeUI from here www.orangeui.cn?

     

    Seems a massive UI library.

     

    I wonder if is stable and can be trusted more/the same as Firemonkey?

     

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