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Hello C++ Developers, I am happy that in the last few years, IDERA Inc. Company and Embarcadero focused on supporting C++ more, which is a good strategy for the software industry. This support started with embracing the hugely popular Visual Assist product from WholeTomato as well as releasing a preview of the 64-bit CLANG compiler. In November, the new RAD Studio 12 with the new C++ Builder 12 and Delphi 12 were released packed full of great features, optimizations, and improvements. We were able to see a lot of big changes in the products. In C++ Builder 12 the new Visual Assist (VA) brought powerful code completion, refactoring, and outstanding navigation features. The CLANG C++ compiler preview is also very encouraging for the future of C++ Builder. It is another big step introducing a new 64bit bcc64x CLANG compiler which supports C++11, C++14, C++17, and partially the C++20 standards. Additional support for C++ comes in the form of LearnCPlusPlus.org, the C++ focused website to help beginners and professionals. It has been 3 years since we started adding posts to LearnCPlusPlus.org, and it has grown into a broad selection of new and unique posts with examples suitable for everyone from beginners to professionals alike. It is growing well because of you, and we have many new readers, thanks to your support! The site features a treasure trove of posts that are great for learning the features of modern C++ compilers with very simple explanations and examples. We have a great Facebook group to support C++ in general that is moderated by Me (Yilmaz), Ian Barker, David Millington, et al. Many useful posts, links, guides, examples, and chat rooms can be used to get help with any C++ compiler such as C++ Builder, Dev-C++, GCC, Visual C, etc. Now we have over 20k followers, please share our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/cppdev and help us to grow more. At LearnCPlusPlus.org, we have finished posts about C++14 features as same as we have done posts about C++11. This week, we have two posts about C++14 features, and we started to C++17 features. We have 3 new post picks from LearnCPlusPlus.org that can be used with the new C++ Builder 12. The first post pick is about the new rules for auto deduction in C++17. Another post is about the new overloads for ranges in C++14 and the other post is about the member initializers and aggregates features in C++14 RAD Studio’s C++ Builder, Delphi, and their free community editions C++ Builder CE, and Delphi CE are powerful tools for modern application development. Where I can I learn C++ and test these examples with a free C++ compiler? If you don’t know anything about C++ or the C++ Builder IDE, don’t worry, we have a lot of great, easy to understand examples on the LearnCPlusPlus.org website and they’re all completely free. Just visit this site and copy and paste any examples there into a new Console, VCL, or FMX project, depending on the type of post. We keep adding more C and C++ posts with sample code. In today’s round-up of recent posts on LearnCPlusPlus.org, we have new articles with very simple examples that can be used with: The free version of C++ Builder 11 CE Community Edition or a professional version of C++ Builder  or free BCC32C C++ Compiler and BCC32X C++ Compiler or the free Dev-C++ Read the FAQ notes on the CE license and then simply fill out the form to […]

On Thursday 9 November we held the launch webinar for Delphi, C++Builder and RAD Studio 12. We had an unprecedented number of attendees, to the point of doing a rerun on Nov 30th. This QA represents questions raised in both. If you were unable to attend take a look at our replay here. We got hundreds of questions in the Q&A log. It is amazing seeing the interest and feedback and we reply in text as fast as we can during these webinars, but my favourite part of these webinars is the conversation afterwards, where we review what you wrote in and reply live. Here are some of the most common questions we were asked… Table of Contents VCL and FMX ‘EnableImmersiveDarkMode’: does that make the VCL use the Windows dark style? Does FMX include styles for Windows 10 Dark and Windows 11? Are there any guidelines for migrating our MDI app to the new MDI framework in version 12? We are trying to implement scaling changes when moving one monitor to another, is ScaleForPPI a good approach? Skia Does Skia support C++? How about the VCL? Does Skia add RTL (right to left) support in FMX? Is Skia4Delphi in Delphi 12 based on version 5 or on version 6? In version 6 there are many changes, renamed units etc… Are there Skia demos? C++ When do you expect to ship the new C++ toolchain that’s in Preview? If the new C++ toolchain is a Preview, will we see updates? Is Visual Assist included in the price, or do we need to pay extra? Does Visual Assist create any folders under my project directory? Does Visual Assist work with the classic compiler? Is the classic compiler still available for C++? Is TwineCompile available for C++Builder 12? Delphi Visual Assist and Go To Related would be useful in Delphi! Is the JSON class generator also available for C++Builder? Does the circular uses checking also check external units and components? Debuggers What about the LLDB debugger for the Windows platform? Data Will there be a SQLite encryption feature? Is CData still available? Target Platforms Is Linux a target platform for Delphi and C++? Does C++Builder 12 support iOS and Android development? Is Windows Server 2016 supported? General Can 11.3 and 12.0 coexist on the same machine without issues? What about Parnassus Bookmarks and Navigator for Delphi 12? Will the Docker images for PAServer and RAD Server be updated? If we edit a project in version 12, will it compile in version 11.3? Has the ToolsAPI documentation been updated? Are there new demos / samples for RAD Studio 12? Will the IDE be available as 64-bit? I develop on a Mac using ARM using Parallels. Can I compile for ARM and Intel on that platform? Does RAD Studio 12 allow undocked design? Third Party Is FastReports available for version 12? Other Is there a ‘work from home’ license available? Will there be a 12 Community Edition? Any plans for AI in future? What’s the story behind the ‘Athens’ name? Does that mean Delphi works at sub-zero temperatures? General Feedback VCL and FMX ‘EnableImmersiveDarkMode’: does that make the VCL use the Windows dark style? It does for the title bar and border. This makes VCL apps use dark non-client area colours, without having to […]

Hello everyone. I hope you’re all keeping safe and well. We’ve had a huge amount of interest in RAD Studio 12 Athens our latest release of the Delphi and C++ IDE from Embarcadero. Thanks for your feedback which is overwhelmingly positive, and also for letting us know anything which is not quite right too. In any release the complexity of the engineering which goes into it always means there are some things to tweak and suboptimal bits ranging from the annoying to the downright broken. With a release like Athens which is absolutely enormous it was inevitable there would be some things which would need some additional love. We plan a patch as soon as we are able to knock out any gremlins. Table of Contents We know you have a personal relationship with your code and the IDE What is RAD Studio and what can I do with it? When are the RAD Studio Winter Webinars on? The first Winter Webinar covered What Can You Do With RAD Studio 12 Where can I find the slides for the “What can you do with RAD Studio 12 webinar”? We know you have a personal relationship with your code and the IDE I can’t emphasize enough; we are not a faceless monolithic corporation. Embarcadero is full of people who are strongly passionate about providing the best IDE for modern software development we can. We listen to the whole truth of anything you have to say, for example when you’re super-happy with something like the new Visual Assist integration, the multiline strings, or my personal favorite the huge integration of Skia into the very fibers of RAD Studio. But the whole truth means we also listen where we are not giving you what you want too, and we take it very seriously. Sometimes we’re not great at making it clear and the lack of a comment on a social media post or quality report can make people feel like we are ignoring you. I want to reiterate, again, and again, we’re here, and we’re listening. You can also email me directly at [email protected] and I will respond to you personally. It is quite literally my job to be there for you. I am not going to provide technical support – there are a load of people much better at doing that than me – and I’m not going to wrangle discounts and freebies – but I am going to be there to make sure your questions are answered, and if I don’t have the answers myself, I will find someone who does. What is RAD Studio and what can I do with it? RAD Studio is an incredible tool for creating apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Linux and it does so in what I personally completely believe is the easiest and most efficient way possible with several significant advantages over doing it with other tools. That’s why I am here at Embarcadero. In fact, it’s why we’re all here. With that in mind, for the next couple of months there is going to be a torrent of webinars from me which put that belief to the test and demonstrate how RAD Studio can create apps for all sorts of platforms and devices. The first webinar earlier this week covered an […]