After the comprehensive CRM Database project, John Elder recently started a new one, a text editor using the Tkinter module in Python. Creating a text editor using the Tkinter is surprisingly easy and you can add a seemingly endless number of interactive functionalities to it. In his early videos, John taught us how to create a Text Editor and how to add common functionalities including the…
The DelphiVCL.ControlBar manages the layout of toolbar components as part of a low code application platform. With components like the controlbar in the DelphiVCL the amount of code you actually have to write is greatly reduced and often avoided altogether.
Use…
TFillStyle in Delphi’s VCL Windows UI toolkit indicates the type of color change that defines the boundary of a possibly non-rectangular region on a canvas.
TFillStyle values determine what type of color changes define the boundaries of a (possibly) non-rectangular…
ActionUpdateDelay property or DelphiVCL.Application.ActionUpdateDelay used to delay the call to DoActionIdle. This applies to native Windows development. The following example demonstrates the usefulness of this property:
Create an MDI project with the main form, an MDI Child, and a TAction class.
Link the TAction OnUpdate event to a method.
Run the program and maximize the MDI…
What is the DelphiVCL.Application.OnActionExecute Event?
The OnActionExecute or DelphiVCL.Application.OnActionExecute event occurs for Windows app development when an action’s Execute method is called and its action list has not already handled it.
Use the…
OnModalBegin or DelphiVCL.Application.ModalBegin occurs when a modal form is opened.
Write an OnModalBegin event handler to perform special processing when a modal form is opened.
How to examine the properties, methods, and built-in properties of the…
Whenever object-oriented programming is done in Python, then we will often come across the self method as their first parameter. This article explains the main concept of self method in Python for Windows development.
self represents the instance of the class in Python. By using the “self” keyword we can access the attributes and methods of the class in Python. It binds the attributes with…
In Delphi VCL, TColor is used to specify the color of a control. It only works for development on Windows.
TColor is used to specify the color of a Windows-only control. It is used by the Color property of many components and by many other properties that specify color…
For Windows app development the BringToFront method or DelphiVCL.Application.BringToFront sets the last active window as the topmost window on the desktop above all other applications.
Use BringToFront to find the window owned by the MainForm that was last active and…
The ClassParent method or DelphiVCL.Application.ClassParent is used during Windows app development to return the type of the immediate ancestor of a class.
ClassParent returns the name of the parent class for an object instance or class reference. For TObject, ClassParent returns nil (Delphi) or NULL (C++).
Avoid using ClassParent in application code.
Let’s browse all the properties and…
