elements Mixing Languages New users coming fresh to Elements are often wondering how the compiler is able to mix different programming languages, or how it ends up that you can use the same language on different
Elements Import Recipes Some time ago, we've introduced Import Projects to Elements. These let you import a set of C header files for Island and Cocoa. An import project produces an .fx that can be used
Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10 Back in March, we began shipping the first preview builds of Data Abstract and Remoting SDK 10, the next generation of our popular two frameworks for building remote services and for multi-tier data
WebAssembly, a Primer In my previous blog post, I presented an example of universal code and outlined some guidelines on how to best approach writing code that can be deployed on every target without modification. I
Video: Bringing your iOS App to the Mac with Catalyst (née Marzipan) A couple blog posts back I gave you a quick peek at our support for UIKit for Mac (a.k.a. Project Catalyst, or Marzipan) in Elements. It's really easy to get your
Introducing "Await" for Closure Callbacks In today's Elements build, .2417, we're extending await support to methods with closure callbacks – such as the many Cocoa APIs. "Async/Await" is a great pattern, pionieered by C# and adopted
Elements: Platforms Our Elements tool chain allows software development for a wide range of Platforms. Over the past couple of weeks, we have streamlined how we group and talk about these platforms, going away from
UIKit for Mac with Elements Today's weekly build of Elements .2415 includes support for building UIKit for Mac applications with Oxygene, C#, Swift and Java.In case you have been living under a rock the past year or
Universal Code with Oxygene In this post we are going to look at creating universal code that can be compiled with the RemObjects Elements compiler to work on all our supported targets.But first, let me introduce
Announcing Hydra 6.2 Hi everyone. We're pleased to announce the immediate availability of Hydra 6.2, the next version of our plugin framework for building modular applications that can mix Delphi, .NET, Java and Island code
Elements Tips: if #available If you're using the Elements compiler for your iOS development, you can take advantage of a special additional behavior of the if #available syntax in Elements' Swift implementation: in addition to making any
WWDC2019 Keynote Apple just finished the introductory keynote to its annual World Wide Developer Conference, and while the keynote always stays pretty high-level and consumer-oriented, there's already a lot to unpack here, while we wait
RemObjects at WWDC! Hello! I'm Kelly Guimont, and I'm the new Marketing/PR person here at RemObjects Software. This is text, but I might sound familiar, as I am the voice in the recent RemObjects TV
Announcing Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 9.7 I'm happy to announce that we have just released the latest updates to Remoting SDK and Data Abstract.Version 9 has had a good run, and this week's release of 9.7 marks
Querying the RemObjects Bug Database We've finally gotten around to implementing a long-requested feature for our website, and that is access to the status and progress of bugs that were logged into our system on your behalf.In
Video: Importing Cocoa Frameworks One of the strengths of the Elements compiler has always been that it allows full and unfettered access to platform APIs and all the third party libraries out there for the platform you
Behind the Scenes: Cross-Module Inlining in Island As most people know, our Island compiler backend is based on LLVM and uses that to optimize and inline code. However, one problem with that is that LLVM works on the "module&
Video: Introduction to Water Hot on the heels of our Introduction to Fire video from two weeks ago, we've now also published the matching Introduction to Water, our development environment for Windows.The video (embedded below) can
Web Portal: Improvements to Management of Multi-User Accounts We don't often talk about our website, remobjects.com, here on this blog, but next to our actual products, it is of course a crucial part of the user experience for you, our
Video: Introduction to Fire After a few years of hiatus for RemObjects TV, we're finally ramping up our video production again, and I'm very pleased to share our first new "modern" Elements video, which gives a quick
Remoting SDK & Data Abstract — 9.6 and beyond! Over this past week, we've made available not one, not two, but three new builds of Data Abstract, our multi-tier database framework, and Remoting SDK, the networkling library it builds on top of.
Improved Dependency Caching for References Happy New Year! We're starting of 2019 with the first new Elements build of the year, out today. Elements .2359 introduces a great new feature that will provide significant speed improvements to your
An Update on Docs Over the course of the past month (and as an effort that will be ongoing for a while longer), we have put huge effort into improving our docs, starting with the Elements docs
Editor Improvements in Fire/Water .2347 Last Friday's build of Elements includes some cool new typing improvements in Fire and Water's code editor that will, hopefully, safe you even more time while typing code – especially on Oxygene. Smart End
Announcing Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 9.5 Hi everyone.I'm happy to announce the immediate availability of Remoting SDK and Data Abstract 9.5, which is a significant new update to our beloved remoting and multi-tier frameworks.Version 9.5
