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“AI-Assisted Development for Delphi” is the fifth book in the “Delphi in All Its Glory” series. Released April 2026. Why This Book Exists There are a gazillion books about AI out there. This is the only one written for Delphi developers. Your LinkedIn feed says programmers will be obsolete by next Thursday. Meanwhile, you’re […]
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Smart CodeInsight stopped appearing in my Delphi IDE after an upgrade. Here is the fix. Uncheck the “Enable Smart CodeInsight” checkbox in Options, close Options, then reopen Options and check the box again. A EULA prompt should now appear (Embarcadero Supplemental AI Terms). Accept it, and Smart CodeInsight will work again. Apparently, during the upgrade
The Controversy In early 2026, two independent research teams published the first empirical studies on whether CLAUDE.md-style instruction files actually improve AI coding performance. Their headlines seemed to tell different stories — one modest, one dramatic. Tech blogs promptly cherry-picked the modest one and ran with it. An article on XDA Developers declared that CLAUDE.md
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The Delphi ecosystem has grown significantly for AI integration. Here’s what’s available today for adding AI image generation to your Delphi applications: Official Components (GetIt / RAD Studio) Stability.ai API Wrapper for Delphi — Available on GetIt. Wraps Stability AI’s cloud API for Stable Diffusion 3.5, Stable Image Ultra. Supports image generation, editing, upscaling, and
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So, I asked Claude this question and, fortunately, it answered not only correctly but also honestly: How are your Delphi skills compared with other languages like C# or JS or Java? give some estimates. how can I improve your Delphi skills? ● Self-Assessment Relative skill levels (rough estimates based on training data volume and community
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RTTI-based automatic language translator engine. Let your application self-translate to any language with only two lines of code! Overview This library translates all GUI strings (TLabel.Caption, TLabel.Hint, TMenuItem.Caption, etc.) for all live forms in your application. The text is stored in INI files which can be sent to DeepL for automatic translation. Downloading the code
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I made a Delphi skill document for Claude Code, but it should work with any other AI as well. # Global Programming Conventions These conventions apply to all my Delphi projects. Main target is Delphi 13. When possible keep compatibility with lower versions of Delphi, but not lower than Delphi Rio. ## Boilerplate Code Avoid
File-From-Clipboard is a small Delphi IDE expert that watches the clipboard for PAS filenames (full or partial paths). When a filename is detected in the clipboard and the file exists inside a user-configured search folder, the expert opens the file in the IDE automatically. Useful when you browse repositories on GitHub, GitLab, or similar services
Prompt: Can I Claude Code build from command line via MSBuild and then analyze the output of the Delphi compiler/msbuild? The compiler is located in c:\Delphi\Delphi 13\bin\dcc32.EXE but I would prefer to pass the dproj file to MsBuild. I think MsBuild is installed here: c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe Answer: this requires the user to enable the WSL Interop
FuzzyStringCompare calculates an approximate similarity percentage between two strings. It uses a heuristic to count matching characters that are roughly in similar positions, allowing for a tolerance based on string lengths. The tolerance is about one-third of the longer string’s length plus the length difference. The algorithm greedily matches characters from the shorter string to
Claude Installation /help Get usage help /config Open the Settings interface (Config tab) /doctor Checks the health of your Claude Code installation /exit Exit the REPL Claude Setup /model Select or change the AI model /output-style [style] Set the output style directly or from a selection menu This changes how Claude Code communicates with
Using Claude Code for Delphi — What I Learned Writing a Book About It What started as a frustrated blog post became a 280-page book. Here’s the story. In early 2026, a post on Delphipraxis claimed that one hour of development with Claude Code was worth a full day of solo programming. Bold claim. I
I have this weird bug in Delphi 13 FMX where the height of the controls is not correct, at app startup. procedure TForm1.AfterConstruction; begin inherited AfterConstruction; MakeDemoBubble; end; TAutosizeBoxText (based on TRectangle) is parented in a ScrollBox. It is set to Align=Top. procedure TForm1.MakeDemoBubble; begin mmoUserResponse.Text := ‘WhatsApp-like text bubble. ‘ + #13#10+ ‘Cool and
“Free Code Agent: Build Faster Right in Your RAD Studio IDE” Presented by Yai (CTO at Solutions, Embarcadero MVP) Core Idea * AI Code Agents are tools that accelerate coding tasks by generating, refactoring, and scaffolding code inside your IDE. * They do not replace developers; they augment productivity. * Example used: Gemini CLI
Note: This is an excerpt from my “Delphi in all its glory [Part 2]” book. Find the full chapter there. A memory manager is a very special piece of code that controls the allocation and deallocation of memory throughout the entire application. The memory management in Delphi is unique because ALL memory is
Android’s lifecycle model is a mess. The OS freely kills your process whenever it needs RAM, and you—the app developer—are expected to deal with the fallout. Android shifts its memory problems onto the app layer, leaving you to rebuild your internal state because the OS felt like freeing 200 MB. FireMonkey tries to give you
A Stack Overflow user wanted to know why clicking on the form’s close button while some FOR loop is running does nothing: procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var i: Integer; begin for i := 0 to 9999999 do begin Memo1.Lines.Add(‘hi’); Application.ProcessMessages; end; end; The issue comes from the lack of understanding of how the forms work. Here
I decided to open source my AI client. For the moment it only supports Gemini, but it can be easily extended to support multiple LLMs by extending TLLMObject. * Support for sending multiple files to AI * Support for multi-turn chat * GUI to set up the LLM parameters * Save settings to disk for
NameOf is a magic function introduced in Delphi 13. What it does is return the identifier name of a symbol (routine, variable, etc.) as a string, as resolved by the compiler. It can be used for: Consistent naming Its main advantage is that if we later rename the function, the compiler forces the change
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I needed (for a project I am working on) to obtain the default language for the operation system. Preferable it should be in “human” format like “English” instead of “En-US”. The AI lead me to strange paths. In the end it tuned out to be quite easy so I created these two function (now part
If you place the cursor on an identifier (variable/function name/etc), CnPack will show you where that identifier is used in your code. Look for example how easy it is to spot where the FBuffPos variable is used in the code below: Also, see how “dangerous” instructions (“Exit”) have been marked in blue! Note: On your
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I’ve seen this trend where AI lacks (compared with other languages) when you try to use it for Delphi (VCL). Probably not their fault. Probably because of lack of code on GitHub…. 😞 Initially, I thought it was only an impression, but later tests (for example, generating a full program with Replit in Delphi and
I was looking for a collapsible panel for many years. The most important feature I want from this control is to be able to collapse vertically. Here are the results of my research: FoldingPanel (VCL) I used FoldingPanel v1.3 http://www.torry.net/authorsmore.php?id=2386 for years. It comes with nice chevron bitmap too. Advantage: The component comes as a
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Delphi is great for RAD. We all love Delphi, even when we are mad at it. In my opinion Delphi has 3 issues that Embarcadero has to fix in order to make Delphi more attractive. 1. It has NOT ACTIVELY worked to bring new Delphi programmers. 2. Solve the problems with the IDE stability 3.
Locating BPL dependency failure In one instance my package required another package, but its BPL was not present. The error I got was “Can’t load package xyz.bpl. %1 is not a valid Win32 application”. I used the Dependency scanner feature from ‘PE Explorer’ ( www.heaventools.de ) to detect this. There was supposed to be a
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Recently, I came across a forum where somebody described FreeAndNil as an “abomination” and I think that’s a bit over the top. Let’s unpack this topic carefully, with technical clarity and an eye for proportion. FreeAndNil(SomeObject) is just syntactic sugar for: if SomeObject <> nil then begin SomeObject.Free; SomeObject := nil; end; The actual implementation
I was undecided if I should attend to this conference or not because I didn’t have enough information about the previous one. So, here is my 2.5 cents. A Journey by Bicycle Setting off in early June from Denmark on two wheels, I pedaled a few hundred km for the Delphi summit. The northern weather
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In FMX, unlike the VCL, the Visible property affects both design time and runtime when set in the Object Inspector. That’s why setting Visible:= False in FMX hides components in the Form Designer, which is a big inconvenience. If you edit the form at design time often, you can keep Visible:= True in the designer
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VCL had a nice and uniform message box system. Most important (and convenient), the messages were blocking. Because of the Android platform which does not support asynchronous messages, all this is gone. So I document here the behavior of few different ways in which we can display message boxes in FMX. None is perfect (not
Generate your key here https://aistudio.google.com/app/apikeyand enter it into the IDE. As URL enter: https://generativelanguage.googleapis.com/v1 Parameters Top-P [official documentation] Top-P changes how the model selects tokens for output. Tokens are selected from the most (see top-K) to least probable until the sum of their probabilities equals the top-P value. For example, if tokens A, B, and
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