In RAD Studio 10.3 we’ve made an interesting very low-level change that affects both Delphi and C++. This is a change in the how method parameters are passed when a method is invoked. For the vast majority of customers, this issue won’t a...

We have just released a hotfix for RAD Studio 10.3, which addresses a number of issues in the C++ compiler and RTL. This is an important hotfix if you rely on compiler version numbers (for example, for version-specific behaviour in you...

Over the weekend, we released two hotfixes for RAD Studio 10.3. One of these, the which addressed a number of IDE issues, is especially important if you use C++Builder. It addresses: RSP-21683: IDE missing Application sub optionsTwo settings pa...

An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world (non-dem...

An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world (non-dem...

An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world (non-dem...

RAD Studio 10.3 has a number of performance improvements, as well as some quality improvements we’d like to share. IDE Fix Pack Some time ago, we licensed Andreas Hausladen’s IDE Fix Pack. This is an unofficial IDE addon that changes the ...

RAD Studio 10.3 includes a lot of work on the VCL, our native Windows UI library. In this release, we’ve focused heavily on extensive high DPI support. You can read Marco’s blog about the perMonitorV2 support in the VCL, and this means wi...

In RAD Studio 10.3, we’ve greatly improved the look and feel of the main window and IDE and Project Options dialogs. Some highlights are a cleaner modern look and updated dark theme in the main window, and some organisational changes and additi...

In C++Builder 10.3, we have some great news for C++ developers. We’re very pleased to announce our first C++17 compiler. This is combined with an updated C++17 standard library, and a completely new code completion technology, and - yes, there&...

In RAD Studio 10.3, we’re making a number of great improvements to the user interface and usability. Concretely, that’s not just looks: we are carefully making improvements in how to interact with the IDE. Last week, we looked at changes ...

In recent RAD Studio releases, we’ve paid a lot of attention to the IDE’s user interface. In 10.2.2, we added a dark theme (one of the most popular changes we’ve made!) and updated the component icons. In RAD Studio 10.3, we have a ...

I'm a big proponent of practical, usable UIs that are easy to understand and pleasant to look at. As an ongoing series, there are a number of blogs posts on UI design. How To Design a Great UI A practical approach to taking a mockup

Welcome back! This is the third post on a series on practical UI design, an approach to creating usable, good-looking UIs when you are not a UX expert. In Part 1, we looked at some basic principles of UI design, a

An ongoing project we have is to ensure more popular, well-known C++ libraries are updated to work with C++Builder, and available to you from within GetIt, our package manager. You may have seen a post earlier this year about real-world

Welcome back! Last time, we discussed a typical UX design flow, and how to tackle this if you do not have access to a UX designer. We also looked at some key usability principles, and saw an example ‘bad’ user interface

How do you design a user interface (UI) to be understandable and easy to interact with? In this series, I’ll give some thoughts on good design, combined with examples. This series is intended as practical UI design advice for small teams

C++ has a long history, beginning in 1979, with Cpre, which added classes to C.  By 1980, it was C with Classes. And then in December of 1983, the term C++ was first used, suggested by Rick Mascitti. That's thirty-five

Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Learning C++ with C++Builder Starter. Last time, we had a calculator and numerical input, demonstrating using boost::optional, smart pointers, and more. This post is shorter: it will finish the calculator with operators (implementing

Welcome! Last time we looked at the architecture of a simple calculator app, showing how to design an application well by separating the UI and logic, abstracting through interfaces, and ensuring each class had a single responsibility.  That's important stuff, stuff that

Welcome!  Last time we looked at the IDE, projects, a simple first application, and basic use of the debugger. Today we’re actually going to write code!  We are going to write a scientific calculator.  It’s a useful, real-world app. You might put it

Welcome to the second blog post in the ‘Learning to program with C++Builder’ series - a set of five articles taking you from knowing nothing about C++ to writing a real-world, useful application. The first entry covered installing C++Builder Community. Now

Microsoft’s June 4 announcement about its acquisition of Github for $7.5 billion has created great interest in the developer community.  Hacker News showed mixed reactions, as did Reddit.  Twitter has some contentious threads.  Motherboard reports that Gitlab, an open source

FireMonkey is an advanced UI toolkit, capable of great layouts and designs. We'd like to show you what it's capable of, and how easy it is to make great interfaces using it. We've just introduced eighteen example UI templates using FireMonkey

Last week, we ran a popular webinar Fast Builds and Integrating Libraries: Using CMake and Ninja for C++ Builder 10.2.3.  The replay is now available on Youtube. In it, I demonstrated two items building with C++Builder and our CMake support: a real-world