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
Introducing Water I'm incredibly proud to annouce that as of last Friday, with Elements build .2331, we have officially started to ship Water, our brand new development environment (IDE) for Elements on Windows. Water has
The Delphi VCL comes to Oxygene Developers switching from Delphi to Oxygene are loving our "Delphi RTL" compatibility library, as it helps them move their code over to new platforms without having to embrace all the new
New Sample: Shared UI I've just pushed a new set of samples to our Elements Samples GitHub repository. The new sample, available for Oxygene (Object Pascal), C# and Swift (GitHub links), shows off some concepts for sharing
Hydra 6: Mixing .NET and Java Last week, we shipped Hydra 6 – a brand new version of our plug-in framework for mixing .NET, Delphi and Island code in the same app. Hydra 6 adds a new code platform to
WWDC 2018 and You While my friend and colleague Peter has got an excellent general recap of WWDC2018 for you, I wanted to briefly touch on the aspects of what was announced on Monday that might matter
wwdc 2018, arkit, ios 12, macos 10.14, mojave WWDC 2018 Recap WWDC 2018 introduces lots of new tech for developers to be aware of, both for iOS and macOS.
basic Half a century of BASIC The BASIC programming language is more than a half-century old. A lot has changed in the world of programming – is there still a place for development for non-developers?
