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Tips on working with Xcode 5 from Delphi

By |2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 31, 2013 11:23 am|Uncategorized|

If you've just installed Xcode 5, there's at least one thing you'll need to attend to, to develop from Delphi XE5 (it is also possible to use XE4; check here) Xcode 5 is a completely new install; in other words, anything else you had before, such as the Command Line Tools and extra simulators, are [...]

Coping with the Virtual Keyboard Done bar and clicking controls on the iOS7 simulator

By |2014-10-14T19:14:58+10:30October 29, 2013 3:23 pm|Patches, Uncategorized|

If you've installed update 1 for XE5, you'll soon find that there's a couple of issues that have moved from the device to the simulator; namely the placement of the Virtual Keyboard "Done" bar, and clicking of controls is vertically askew. These two posts relate to the issues: http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/coping-with-done-bar-on-ios7-devices/ http://delphi.radsoft.com.au/2013/10/coping-with-clicking-controls-on-ios7-devices/ First the patch for clicking [...]

Coping with clicking controls on iOS7 devices

By |2014-10-19T16:54:48+10:30October 23, 2013 6:54 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

UPDATE: If you've applied Update 1 for XE5, please revert any changes made based on this article, or ignore it if you have not made any changes. The issue has been resolved in Update 1 for the DEVICE;  Update 1 causes an issue with  clicking controls in the simulator. Please refer to this article if [...]

Moving controls into view when the virtual keyboard is shown

By |2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 19, 2013 7:09 pm|Code tips, Uncategorized|

UPDATE: The demo project attached has been updated due to a couple of "glitches". One remaining known issue is that the "Config" page doesn't move to its original position if changing orientation when the keyboard is already showing. I'll revisit the article when I've come up with a solution. I'm sure almost everyone who develops [...]

Making the Firemonkey TComboBox picker in iOS7 opaque

By |2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 16, 2013 9:18 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

I really don't know what possessed the people at Apple to make the UIPickerView transparent by default; it can make it very difficult to distinguish the items in the list from what is underneath. In the FireMonkey TComboBox in Delphi XE5, the picker is implemented using the native UIPickerView. The way the picker is implemented, [...]

Implementing a slide-in menu in your mobile apps

By |2019-06-04T21:35:49+10:30October 15, 2013 11:17 am|Code tips, Uncategorized|

Back in May of 2013, Malcolm Groves published this excellent article: A Facebook-style layout for your mobile app Which outlined how to go about implementing a slide-in menu like in prior incarnations of the Facebook mobile app. Facebook has since changed this layout, so it no longer applies to that app, however I still [...]

Fixing TIdFTP for iOS devices

By |2017-02-16T18:02:36+10:30October 11, 2013 9:00 am|Patches, Uncategorized|

A colleague of mine, Chris, has been developing an application for iOS that manages players for a casual competition called HoopStars. Part of the functionality of the app is downloading images that are "avatars" for players, using FTP. I had been helping out Chris with other aspects of the development of the app, however this [...]

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