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

Programming languages are exciting for developers, and C++, one of the more technically challenging and also perhaps the most widely used compiled language, is one of the most exciting.  As Theodore Roosevelt is misquoted (*), 'the more you know about

The RAD Studio IDE contains a toolbar allowing you to log on to Community, and see messages sent to you by other users, questions and answers, and other notifications. Recent website upgrades have caused issues with this toolbar for some users (now

Embarcadero has had a free download of our C++ compiler and RTL (capable of making Win32 apps) for many years, going back into the Borland days. (In fact, Idera as a company likes providing free tools - check out some of the

In 10.2.3, there is an issue affecting methods using the fastcall calling convention that allocate 4KB or more on the stack inside the method. The stack allocation could result in the 'this' pointer containing an incorrect value.  This was reported as: RSP-20171 RSP-20297

There are a wide variety of languages used for mobile development: Swift, Objective C, Java, Kotlin, Delphi, C#, and C++. What are the reasons to choose C++? Consider a language along three axes: expressiveness, conciseness, and performance. An expressive language allows you

One big new feature in 10.2.3 is support for building with CMake. If you haven't already, read the previous two posts: introduction to CMake and building with Windows, and building for iOS and Android. Today I'd like to cover using CMake generators, and

Every RAD Studio release, we focus on what we call QPS: Quality, Performance, Stability.  Recent releases of C++Builder have included: 10.2.0: Lots of work on our linker; improved codegen and optimizations; and debugging improvements (minimizing debug info size, better debugging)  10.2.1: CodeGuard for Windows 8.1 and

We've introduced some great new features for C++Builder in 10.2.3.  Last week, I wrote about CMake support for our compilers. That post covered what CMake is, and how to use it for Windows, both Win32 and Win64.  If you haven't

A very exciting feature in C++Builder 10.2.3 is support for using CMake with our compilers.  Let's dig in! This post is the first in a series on CMake, and will cover: What CMake is How to write a CMakeLists.txt file How to build a project on

Yesterday we released RAD Studio 10.2.3, and we have a number of new C++Builder features. I wrote earlier about rename refactoring for C++, but today I also want to mention one small but useful one for our power users: a