What is a LIBERAL?  According to Wikipedia: Liberalism is a Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed and equality before the law. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but they generally support individual rights (including civil rights and human rights), […]

First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android).  My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. Embarcadero is prolific in their forward thinking that when a new version comes out, all hope of fixing serious flaws in the previous version stops. Case in point was the Tokyo version.  Believe it […]

First, I love Delphi (20 years use) and FireMonkey (5 years use – Android).  My thoughts are criticisms, not a rejection. Delphi VCL TComboBox handles no ItemIndex (-1) selected beautifully.  FireMonkey not so easily.  In fact if you handle things wrong,  you can create an access violation which is bad news. I first encountered this […]