DelphiVCL.Control is the base class for all components that are visible at run time.
DelphiVCL.Control are visual components, meaning the user can see them and possibly interact with them at run time. All controls have properties, methods, and events that describe aspects of their appearance, such as the position of the control, the cursor or hint associated with the control, methods to…
DelphiVCL.Graphic or TGraphic is the abstract base class type for objects such as icons, bitmaps, and metafiles that can store and display visual images.
DelphiVCL.Graphic is an abstract class that cannot be instantiated. Descendant graphics objects override many of…
When developing GUI applications and you need to provide console I/O, you need to call FreeConsole after you end your console I/O code block.
Let’s browse all the properties, methods, and built-in properties of the DelphiVCL.FreeConsole using dir()…
ActionList or TActionList maintains a list of actions that your application can take in response to something a user does, such as components and controls (e.g. menu items and buttons).
Use Action lists to centralize the response to user commands (actions). Action list components maintain a list of actions that are available to the client controls in an application. This lets you share…
In this tutorial, we will learn about how to do data visualizations using Delphi’s TChart or TeeChart.
TChart is the 100% Native Data-Aware Charting Component Library for Delphi and C++ Builder (v5 and later) and all RAD Studio versions.
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Powerful Python For Delphi VCL vs Python GUI Generator: PAGE
March 20, 2021
Are you an expert in desktop apps and GUI development who want to also work with Python because of its simplicity, flexible use, and growing demand in the market out there? Or are you a Python Developer at any level who wants to start a GUI development journey? This article…
The documentation for Delphi’s VCL is available on Embarcadero’s DocWiki. You will notice that on DocWiki, all the VCL components are prefixed with a T. This is a convention of the Delphi language, but the DelphiVCL4Python module removes the T prefix for a more Python-like experience (see and compare it with the outputs of this post).
Here are the lists of all the methods, events, and…
How to use the Show Method for DelphiVCL4Python Applications
March 14, 2021
We use the Show method to make a form or window visible.
Use the Show method to make visible a control that was previously hidden.
The Show method sets the control’s Visible property to true and ensures that the parent control is also visible.
Here is…
We use Font or TFont to specify the attributes of text written on or in the control.
To change to a new font, specify a new TFont object. To modify a font, change the value of the Charset, Color, Height, Name, Pitch, Size, or Style of the TFont object.
Note…
Let’s compare the DelphiVCL form with other Python GUI frameworks (we take the GUI created in this post as an example):
DelphiVCL provides better OS integration and styling by default. It provides Windows-10 styling to make your GUI looks professional and up-to-date.
DelphiVCL even provides Windows right-click functionality by default. Compared with PyQt that lacks OS…
