A snippet would be wonderful.

Larry: about reæktivt 150 forms… Yes, if you have tied all your business logic into the forms, you are in deep trouble. However, if you have modelled your application in a layer-model, it shouldnt be that bad, even though its still not a trivial task.
About the controls being not that different. Basically the VCL controls are all Windows in the Microsoft windows sense. I know that most people regard the Tform as a window, but a Tbutton, a Tedit and a Tmemo are also Windows, they have a handle.
I am pretty sure, that if you build a converter, you will make a bundle, as many Delphi programmers would like one.

Question: how do I deploy a Mac app built with Firemonkey to a customers Mac?
I’m not talking about Passerver, debugging or anything like that. Just plain and simple, copy the executable to a Mac running Mac OSX Lion.
I tried with my own Mac, but when trying to run it, it Said it couldnt run, because Classic was not supported..

Is there a tutorial for deploying apps to a non-developer Mac ? Ie a customers Mac…

Thanks in advance

Jens Fudge

@Rômulo, como mostro no próprio vídeo FireMonkey irá funcionar normalmente em um VM, se não está funcionando na sua máquina é porque pode estar faltando alguma arquivo. O Delphi gera o app e dependências no padrão Mac. Use o Deployment Manager para copiar sua aplicação para o Mac e veja quais arquivos faltaram.

Eu reparei que neste vídeo você parece estar usando algum tipo de VM para mostrar a funcionalidade do Delphi XE 2. Porém eu noto que o host é um mac os x e o guest é o windows. Estou tentando fazer o Firemonkey funcionar porém no processo reverso. Meu host é um Windows 7 e o guest é o Snow Leopard. Minha aplicação feita no modo console funciona normalmente, porém uma aplicação feita com formulário não é executada. Meu Snow Leopard está instalado no VirtualBox. Vi em alguns posts espalhados pela net que não é possível executar uma aplicação do Firemonkey em uma VM. Isso procede? Se procede, me conformarei em não poder executar um deploy da minha aplicação no snow leopard. Se procede, como fazer para isso funcionar?

Já tentei inclusive passar o “executável” gerado para uma pessoa que trabalha diretamente com o Snow Leopard, porém em uma máquina Apple, o projeto também não abriu. Inclusive eu compilei o aplicativo em modo Release.

Você pode me dar uma ajuda?

Agradeço desde já.

Oscar,

To deploy your FireMonkey app in your phone you need a Apple Dev account and you need a Mac machine to compile the app. You can jailbreak your phone and by pass the Apple dev program, but you won’t be able to deploy on App Store your app.

To deploy a FireMonkey application from Delphi XE2 to the IPhone, there is a direct way without the need of a IOs machine?

To do that is needed to jail break the ipnone?

Or is needed the IOs machine hopelessly?

¿Para instalar una aplicación FireMonkey desde Delphi XE al IPhone, hay una forma de hacerlo directamente sin la necesidad de una máquina con IOs?

Para hacer esto ¿es necesario JailBreakear el IPhone?

¿O irremediablemente se necesita la máquina con IOs?

Best Regards
Oscar Flor

Are the components that radically different that not tool is provided to do 90% of the grunt work of the conversion?

The real kicker is that the whole application must be converted en masse to use Fire Monkey. It is all or nothing since the Delphi will not allow both VCL and FireMonkey formas to co-exist in the same program. If it did you could migrate one form at a time and debug it. How many zillion bugs can one create converting 150 forms first before one can run a single text?

Basically then the new version of Delphi is really only applicable to trivial or new applications. To relay out 150 forms and all their conrols plus fix all he properties and events and methods is a major major task.

From where I sit, Delphi XE is of very little value for complex existing applications that wish to use FireMonkey to run on different platforms.

Hi Larry,

You can reuse all the datamodule and business logic. Only the UI will need to be rewrite. About how long it will take, depend of the size of application, number or resources available, etc.

Viendo tu video y los posteriores comentarios me surgen 2 preguntas:
Cual sería el mejor motor de base de datos para trabajar desde Delphi y tener compatibilidad posterior con iOS ( sobre todo para trabajar después con iPad que es mi finalidad ) ??

Tengo la versión Proffesional de Delphi XE2, pero no veo la opción desde el menú de Tools de “Export to Xcode” como tú realizas en el video. Es problema de la versión de la licencia de Delphi XE2 o es necesario hacer alguna configuración previa?

Muchas gracias de antemano!

Hi Randy,

I think they found the solution in the newsgroup, sorry I just saw your message today.

I will create an article to show how to share the directory between xCode and the IDE.

convert dfm-vcl structure and any pas source to firemonkey

Also please can you an article on how to create a share directory to be used between XCode and IDE esp on VMware .

many thanks

Hi Simon,

Yes you can access all of the iOS API from FireMonkey app. There is a unit iPhoneAll you need to declare for that.

In iOS, Is It possible to use native iphone api like a asset library (ex. photo…) ?
or just gui application only.

Oi Eduardo,

Estamos finalizando o feature matrix e vamos disponibilizar no site, posso adiantar que o driver ODBC para dbExpress estará a partir da versão Enterprise.

Exemplo: ODBC vai ter em todas ?

Thanks for the presentation! And also for answering questions. I`m (and also my friends) very excited about new Delphi XE2 🙂
I can`t wait for the presentation that will be also in our country – we are going to be on “RAD Studio XE2 World Tour” in Cracov (Kraków) – Poland. After that we just need to wait to buy it – and we will sure buy 🙂

Thanks again and greetings!