Thursday 22 August 2013

DevExpress Quantumgrid Header Height

I have had a problem recently using a DevExpress Quantum Grid which has the column filters enabled and also the ability to drag and drop. I needed a way to get the header height so it would ignore the begindrag. The after trying a few things this is the best way I found to get the header height.

iHeaderHeight := GridView.ViewInfo.HeaderViewInfo.Bounds.Bottom -
      GridView.ViewInfo.HeaderViewInfo.Bounds.Top;
   

Friday 16 August 2013

You can now develop software for both iOS and Android

I've just read on the Embarcadero blog that you can take an iOS app developed in Delphi and retarget it to work as an Android app. Delphi for Android is still in beta, but this is a significant step to developing software in a single language and deploying it multiple platforms, and importantly the software run natively. If this works as well as they give the impression, Delphi will have solved one of the biggest issues with software development, that is employing different developers to develop similar software for different platforms. Because of this Delphi must surely become more popular.