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This was published in 2016. And the title included "C# coders". I am not a C# coder, but all C# GUI coders I know had praised Delphi for its design and conveni

by cttet 6y ago

This was published in 2016. And the title included "C# coders". I am not a C# coder, but all C# GUI coders I know had praised Delphi for its design and convenience for GUI... edit:grammar

Jaruzel 6y ago
The one thing that bugged me about Delphi apps on Windows, was that they used their own custom buttons on the forms (with little graphics of crosses and ticks etc.). I am not a Delphi programmer, but I always wondered why this was.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Because developers want to be fancy. That was an additional custom controls library that you could enable, you could choose to use the standard L&F as well. It was also available for the C++ products from Borland and it traces back to their first Windows 3.x compilers. My first experience with it was in Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 (the last TP before Delphi was born). Also, similar libraries existed for MFC or plain C Win32, sold by companies like ComponentOne.
- extrapickles 6y ago
  Delphi made it easy as a developer to add those icons, and they had a nice standard set named for most actions you would want a user to do in a line-of-business application UI. Also the hello world apps for Delphi had these icons everywhere so it was "just the way" you built applications using it.
- dwd 6y ago
  I always assumed it was a licensing thing where they couldn't use the MFC DLL to have the same buttons. Made it easy to spot a Delphi app.
- clouddrover 6y ago
  It's just another button control available in Delphi's UI library so people use it. A standard button is a TButton: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.StdCtrls.TButton http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.StdCt... A button with a glyph is a TBitBtn (bit meaning bitmap): http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Buttons.TBitBtn http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Butto...
FpUser 6y ago
Delphi is fine for coding nearly anything.

by cttet 6y ago

This was published in 2016. And the title included "C# coders". I am not a C# coder, but all C# GUI coders I know had praised Delphi for its design and convenience for GUI... edit:grammar

Jaruzel 6y ago

The one thing that bugged me about Delphi apps on Windows, was that they used their own custom buttons on the forms (with little graphics of crosses and ticks etc.). I am not a Delphi programmer, but I always wondered why this was.

pjmlp 6y ago
Because developers want to be fancy. That was an additional custom controls library that you could enable, you could choose to use the standard L&F as well. It was also available for the C++ products from Borland and it traces back to their first Windows 3.x compilers. My first experience with it was in Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.5 (the last TP before Delphi was born). Also, similar libraries existed for MFC or plain C Win32, sold by companies like ComponentOne.
extrapickles 6y ago
Delphi made it easy as a developer to add those icons, and they had a nice standard set named for most actions you would want a user to do in a line-of-business application UI. Also the hello world apps for Delphi had these icons everywhere so it was "just the way" you built applications using it.
dwd 6y ago
I always assumed it was a licensing thing where they couldn't use the MFC DLL to have the same buttons. Made it easy to spot a Delphi app.
clouddrover 6y ago
It's just another button control available in Delphi's UI library so people use it. A standard button is a TButton: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.StdCtrls.TButton http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.StdCt... A button with a glyph is a TBitBtn (bit meaning bitmap): http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Buttons.TBitBtn http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Sydney/en/Vcl.Butto...

FpUser 6y ago

Delphi is fine for coding nearly anything.