Quartex Pascal Forum - Recent Topics

is right-to-left (RTL) language Layout supported?

ahmed.atayib@gmail.com — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:34:15 +0000

i have just start to play with qtx and my first question is :
is your product support right to left layout or what is known in delphi by bidimode?
id delphi vcl it is supported but it is broken in some components like Treeview and in FMX not supported at all. this is the most important feature for right-to-left (RTL) language like Arabic, Hebrew, Persian (Farsi), and Urdu.

Hotfix: version 1.0.0.2

Jon Lennart Aasenden — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:56:54 +0000

We have fixed a lot of things that sadly escaped us last Friday, including a few glaring ones that have prevented users from fully working with QTX. We apologize for the inconvenience of this, we have setup a release schedule that is more in-depth for future updates.

The most glaring mistake was when copying resources (like the platform.js file) where we somehow had a logic mistake, causing the file to be raw-copied from the encrypted package-file. This meant the data was garbled and caused problems when running the code. As all great bugs this was a one-liner, but a very very important one!

Fixes in this version

A focus issue when pressing F12 to toggle between code/form is taken care of
Shift + F12 now brings up a quick-search dialog, just like delphi
CTRL + F12 will bring up a similar quick-search unit dialog, just like delphi
Dependencies on pointer and resize polyfill js-files is now gone, they were purely there to support older webkit browsers, and are now obsolete.
Removed said dependencies from the template HTML files
Fixed an issue where “New form” did not set the correct displaymode + positionmode. This should be absolute + inlineblock
Fixed a problem with gamepad delegate classes not being initialized properly
Added gamepad delegates to TQTXGraphicView so they can be easily hooked up in the 2D game project type
Gone over all project types and removed polyfills and set new default values. Also removed units that dont really need to be in the uses clause.
Fixed the DOSBOX demo, it needed some love and a custom css rule to define the virtual machine display size (one of the first demos we had, so it was old!)
Removed test projects that should never have been included
Fixed a toolbar resize issue. If the screen resolution is too small, the toolbar breaks to two lines, but autosize doesnt function, hiding some buttons. This is actually a Delphi bug. I implemented a resize fix for it.
Default IDE theme changes to light for simplicity sake (no colors issues with “new project” dialog, damn Delphi VCL styling missing category elements).
Two units belonging to the DOM namespace had been misplaced in common, files are now moved to the correct package.
Rebuildt helpfiles with more topics added. A pdf will be made available for download separately.
Fixed a small attachment issue with the debug process.
CopyResource() from the IDE's resource cache did not check the cipher for the commercial packages correctly, and emitted garbled data. This is now fixed (thank you Hackbart!)
There was a syntax error in two user packages, and a handful of warnings in our system packages. These have thankfully been fixed
Updated examples so they build
Updated the node.js project templates
Removed obsolete packages

Make sure you update ALL the packages from the update-manager! This is very important.

Installation and Start-Up

mucahit.yagmur@gmail.com — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 10:45:15 +0000

I just installed version 1.0.
I registerd it on my X864 Windows 11 NoteBook

I couldn't compile or run any of the existing widgets. What did I do wrong?
What are the dependencies? Are system-local definitions or operating system effective?

The error I usually get is
'Syntax Error: There is no accessible member with name "inheritsFrom" for type TQTXComponent '
... etc.

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Problems with the IDE

macc2010 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:25:37 +0000

Hello,

I've been following your posts and progress on Quartex Pascal for many years.

I've been very disappointed with the IDE. It's a shame that, for example, it can't be used with the keyboard:

Control + F to search, but F3 doesn't work.

The IDE doesn't have keyboard shortcuts to open units/forms with names you already know.

Pressing F12 switches between the source code and the designer, but if you have focus in the code editor, you lose it after pressing F12.

For me, it makes it unusable; I don't feel comfortable with this IDE. It's a shame. It would have been more interesting to use a Visual Studio Code derivative to create a good IDE.

This is just my opinion, but I've used many editors and IDEs in 34 years of programming, and this is the worst I've tried.

Thanks.

Public release v1.0

Jon Lennart Aasenden — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:14:13 +0000

Yesterday evening we hit the publish button for Quartex Pascal v1!
It has been a long, long road with too much work to list, but we feel that its reached a level of maturity that makes it usable by everyone.

It is easy to forget just how much tooling is involved, not just in the IDE or RTL, but also on the back-end. Our back-end system is written in QTX itself, dealing with everything from the internal build process to licenses to everything else under the sun.

Well, we hope everyone has a great time with v1.0 -- and help us spread the word!

Create A New Project

PLille — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:04:34 +0000

It's really hard to read dark blue and black on dark grey.

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Bugs and features

patrick.premartin@developpeur-pascal.fr — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:13:52 +0000

Hello.

I've just installed Quartex Pascal IDE and played 5 minutes (too many things to finish before I can really use it).

Is there a preferred place to do comments, signal bugs and ask for features or settings changes ?

Finally release candidate!

Jon-Lennart Aasenden — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:48:49 +0000

We have finally, after much, much work and over a year extra to get the debugging and other tidbits in place, reached release candidate status.

This week licenses will be issues to all previous backers -- and after the initial feedback from our backers, the product goes live and on sale.

Introduction to Quartex Pascal

drbond — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 08:39:29 +0000

Early Access version 2 pdf edition will be released towards the end of this week, probably September 25th 2025. The book is now 468 pages in length.

The book now contains a chapter on databases - see https://www.educational-computing.com/qp/db for an SQLite example from the database chapter. This example is an early version, a later version tidies up a couple of things.

Delphi to Quartex Pascal and local data considerations

jgk@thewordbooks.com — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:45:01 +0000

One of the main reasons I am interested in Quartex Pascal is an Application that has access to local data on whatever the OS is. Due to contracts with Publishers we need to pursue local data instead data on a server. Would there be a simple way to cover Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Linux or does one need to account for data storage on each system?

We have a Bible software system on Windows 32bit Delphi 12.3 but really need to move into other platforms. If we can minimize the necessary changes that will help us greatly plus changing contracts is harder than coding...