Beyond Potency

Delphi is Resilient

Delphi is Resilient

Welcome to the Delphi section.

Here you can find articles that share my passion for this fantastic technology.

Delphi is resilient, it has survived everything thrown at it, and it remains one of the best technologies for desktop development. It is more relevant than ever.

My Journey with Delphi

I first started coding in Delphi in 1998.

Switching from Visual Basic and C++/MFC to Delphi was an incredible experience. No more Document Model, no more ASX messages. Simplified Win32 and COM programming.

Nearly three decades later, Delphi is better than ever.

The Delphi Way

The Delphi Way

Why Delphi

Handling Errors

Dynamic Dispatch

Dynamic Dispatch

Design C

Design Concerns

Resources

Resources

An Experiment with Kai

Building a Delphi FMX Mobile UI with Kai: A One-Day Experiment.

Deleaker Review

A review of Artem Razin's memory leak profiler for Delphi.

Fixing FMX Debugging on Ubuntu 26.04

Fixing Delphi PAServer 37 Debugging on Ubuntu 26.04 (_Py_IsFinalizing Error).

Older Posts

Aug 17

Compiler optimization via elision affecting initialization of managed records.

Aug 17

How to play an animated Gif in FMX.

Aug 21

Fixing an error caused by an unexpected filename in a TStyleBook.

Aug 13

How to reduce nesting and ensure deterministic cleanup.

Aug 21

Changes introduced in Delphi Rio affecting const argument semantics.

Aug 21

A quick demonstration project to enumerate drives and their serial numbers.

Aug 21

Creating a system-wide hotkey to bring an application to the front.

Aug 14

First discovering FMX and taking it for a test drive.

Aug 21

How to handle an interactive zoom gesture on a frame.

Aug 21

Scaling fonts in FMX mobile apps based on Material Design 2.

Aug 21

Scaling fonts in FMX Windows based on Material Design 2.

Aug 21

Handling the back button event on Android phones.

Aug 21

How to use a named semaphore in a Windows application.

Aug 21

Some tips for working with the TScrollBar control.

Aug 21

Speeding up tab transition animations.

Aug 22

String indexing best practices.

Aug 19

Configuring the deployment settings for an Android app.

Aug 21

Declaring static local variables in Delphi.

Aug 21

A potential fix for when a frame is suddenly unable to open.