NEW: Updated version compiled with Embarcadero Studio XE 10.1 Berlin “Update 1” (September 2016). This small app shows a very big quantity of global parameters (variables, class variables, class properties, “service managers” interface values) from Delphi RTL System units, FireMonkey classes and platform-specific parameters (Android, iOS, Mac OSX and Windows x86 and x64). https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.steema.Delphi_Inspect It […]
TeeChart and system Styles / Themes. (VCL and Firemonkey)
Next coming TeeChart update will include a new small “Theme” class to use the color settings from the current Application style (VCL and Firemonkey). (Application styles are available in RAD Studio XE3 and up). The code to enable this automatic chart styling is: VCL: uses VCLTee.TeeThemes; TSystemTheme.ApplyStyle( Chart1 ); Firemonkey: uses […]
New SeriesRegion tool for TeeChart Java
The majority of TeeChart versions already include a tool called SeriesRegion; the time for TeeChart Java to make a step forward has arrived! To make this tool available you only have to include the according import: import com.steema.teechart.tools.SeriesRegion; Then, to use it you only need a chart and a series to link it: Line line1 […]
Converting VCL/FMX and ActiveX templates to .NET.
Over the years, a number of TeeChart users have asked how to convert the charts they created either using TeeChart VCL/FMX or ActiveX to the .NET version, enabling them to more easily port their previously created charting projects to .NET. Well, this is possible! It might not be the ideal or perfect solution but it’s an approximation that […]
TeeChart WPFDirect2D Beta
I’m pretty excited to announce the public availability of TeeChart.WPFDirect2D.dll, a new assembly in the TeeChart for .NET family. This assembly functions with SlimDX to produce a seamless Direct2D experience within the WPF framework, producing increases of rendering performance by at least a factor of two (>=200%). The binary version of a demo app which includes […]
Using Themes with TeeChart
Introduction “Themes” allow changing all visual formatting properties of Charts with a single click or line of code. The default look of a TeeChart hasn’t been changed for many years. This is on purpose, as it might be annoying to discover existing charts have completely different colors or font styles just because a new […]
TeeChart and GDI+ inside a DLL
TeeChart VCL controls use GDI+ (Windows graphics library) by default in VCL applications. NOTE: The fix indicated below has been already included in the latest VCL version: 2014.11.140512 Download link There is a “problem” with GDI+ when using it inside a DLL. GDI+ needs to be initialized before using it, and the […]
How to make a transparent chart with TeeChart Pro ActiveX
While part of the Steema team was at the Mobile World Congress and WIPJam events in Barcelona, getting acquainted with the novelties on the mobile sector, some of us remained at the office in Girona working on some vintage stuff, let’s call it. Over the years, one of the recurring questions with TeeChart Pro VCL/FMX […]
Welcome to Steema blogs
Hi, Welcome to Steema Blogs! These pages are intended to bring together comments and articles from various contributors in the Steema team with the goal of 1) adding value to the basic information beyond the standard Steema newsfeed, forums and product documentation and 2) to humanise a little the interface that our web presence presents […]