Firemonkey
I am so dammed frustrated with firemonkey and livebindings. The VCL + DB Controls were fast, consistent, and stable. This fmx framework is crap. It's slow on my i5 Macbook. I'd be embarrassed to put out an app like this. The help is lousy and apparently very few people are using it based on my failed Google searches. I can see why. Livebindings is cute when you have a few fields, but it a rats nest when you have a moderately complex form and have to wire up dozens of controls. There is no official support for nullable fields in livebindings which blows my mind. The FMX layout controls are terrible. The IDE crashes every few hours when trying to use it. I give up. I'm building the multi platform version of this app in angular/boostrap/node. I get a nice clean MVVM architecture and ironically its faster than my "native" fmx app. I'll stick with the VCL for windows apps because it's amazing for that.
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Mike
6/8/2015 4:14:36 PM
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I'm leery of LiveBindings. So far I've been better served by TIniFile. Have you looked at the third party controls from http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsfmxpack.asp ? It has a good object grid control. I never use TFlowLayout or any of those others. I have used TGridPanelLayout and it was decent. I mainly use TLayout and the Align property. Also this one was really fast on Android: http://www.woll2woll.com/woll2woll-firepower.html
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Eli
6/9/2015 3:49:18 AM
On 06/08/2015 11:14 AM, Mike Margerum wrote: > Livebindings is cute when you have a few fields, but it a rats nest when > you have a moderately complex form and have to wire up dozens of > controls. There is no official support for nullable fields in > livebindings which blows my mind. I agree with Live Bindings designer could use a rethink. I use frames to compartmentalize my Live Bindings. > The FMX layout controls are terrible. Sometimes, it's a little tricky. You have to rethink how you layout controls. Don't hesitate to use Padding and Margin properties. Favor TLayout (and its variants) rather than TPanel.
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Kyle
6/9/2015 6:20:06 PM
> I agree with Live Bindings designer could use a rethink. I use frames to > compartmentalize my Live Bindings. > >> The FMX layout controls are terrible. > > Sometimes, it's a little tricky. You have to rethink how you layout controls. Don't > hesitate to use Padding and Margin properties. Favor TLayout (and its variants) rather > than TPanel. > Thanks Kyle. The TFlowlayout doesn't work like the VCL one does. I'd expect it to realign the controls inside when the visibility of the controls changes. This is just one of a death by a 1000 cuts though. I'm using Delphi VCL because it lets me crank our fast, good looking apps quickly in a 2 tier setting. Delphi+firedac+flexcel+a good set a db controls is amazingly productive. I'm writing so much boilerplate to get a "proper" separation of concerns that I may as well just build everything with web tech. It's less code. Delphi in a 3 tier setting with FMX is actually more work than building a web app and it's slow. Once angular 2 is completed with typescript support, i'll probably just migrate to that or aurelia. Javascript is hard to write well, but typescript is very nice. Once they get the async/await stuff into typescript, it will be a very productive environment. If I didn't already do iOS native dev, i'd probrably tough it out with Delphi, but i'm just keeping it around for existing windows apps i have. I'll keep the SA for a while to see how things progress.
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Mike
6/9/2015 6:41:29 PM
I'm going to persevere and get this mac/windows module using FMX done since it's about 80% complete but I sure hope EMB improves the FMX experience. I like the Delphi language and the VCL has been a workhorse for me.
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Mike
6/10/2015 4:28:23 PM
> I agree with Live Bindings designer could use a rethink. I use frames to > compartmentalize my Live Bindings. > I ripped live bindings out and and using the TMS Live grid and now the grids are very responsive. Thank god for 3rd party components.
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Mike
6/11/2015 2:17:17 AM
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