Marco Tech Blog

September 6, 2011

Presenting FireMonkey in Paris and Koln

This week I'll be presenting the new FireMonkey application platform for Delphi in Paris, France, on Thursday (the 8th) and in Koln (Germany) on Saturday (the 10th).

posted by marcocantu @ 3:51PM | 6 Comments [0 Pending]

Presenting FireMonkey in Paris and Koln 

Looking forward to see you :)

But sadly (for the ones without a ticket, gladly for 
attendance in general), Delphi Tage are sold out 
already. On the other hand this will mean full house :)

Comment by Sebastian Gingter [http://delphipraxis.net] on September 7, 11:58

64 bit not important? 

Frankly, I found the all the hype about FM
excessive. It is not a true new library (it was
available before), and it is not (IMHO) a framework
for all needs. I would have believed 64 bit support
and new data bindings would have had much more
coverage, but there's been little. Same as well for
MacOS development, but not only related to GUIs built
with FM, but also about other layers, i.e. native API,
data access, etc.

Comment by Luigi D. Sandon on September 7, 12:37

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@ Luigi
I was thinking the same before seeing it in action,
but after the World Tour (in London in my case) I
definitely changed my mind.
It provides a very easy way to greatly enhance your UI
to a completely different level - without having to
use complicated 3rd parties libs, let alone the
multi-platform support....
After seeing it in action, you'll automatically begin
to think how you can apply it to your own UI, the hype
is simply contagious... :-)

Comment by Guido V [http://guidovezzoni.com] on September 7, 16:39

Presenting FireMonkey in Paris and Koln 

Does FireMonkey come with full source (like the VCL 
does)?  Does it compile directly into your app, so 
you don't need any dlls?

Comment by Troy Wolbrink [http://www.tntware.com] on September 7, 20:17

Presenting FireMonkey in Paris and Koln 

A couple of notes about comments:

- Good that the Delphi Tage is sold out. See you on 
Friday night for the beer.

- 64 bit is VERY important, but expected (for a long 
time). FireMonkey opens up new perspectives. That's 
quite different, but just hype.

- FireMonkey has full source you can debug into and it 
does compile in your app. This is different from most 
other RIA platforms, which require a runtime installed 
on the target machine. 

Comment by Marco Cantu [http://www.marcocantu.com] on September 7, 20:28

Presenting FireMonkey in Paris and Koln 

 Hi Marco,

Very much looking forward to seeing the White paper.

Loving experimenting with FM, hitting a few brick Walls due to lack 
of detailed examples and docs, but can see this really shaking up 
my data visualisation approaches.

Really hope detailed docs and walkthroughs start to appear soon, 
as this FM is such a big departure from traditional VCL-based UI 
and graphics programming.

Amazing what can be achieved though in just the short time I've 
been fiddling with just the 2D / HD aspects of FM - sensible parent 
child relationships, gradient fills with alpha channel support on each 
colour stop, slick animators objects tied to parent objects.

Many mysteries remain... looking forward to more info and insight 
being made available.

Good luck with the evgents in France & Germany.


Jon

Comment by Jon Souter on September 8, 08:23