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In Delphi 11 we have some additional properties on TCustomGroupBox, they are DefaultHeaderFont, HeaderFont, and ShowFrame. Find out how they work here.
The loading time of the options screens for both the Tools and Options menu has been greatly improved. Check out by how much.
New in Delphi 11 is the EditMargins property on TCustomMemo. You will find this on TRichText and TCustomMemo (as well as their data-aware cousins). This allows you to define the left and right margins within a memo. Watch on YouTube.
New in Delphi 11 is the design-time previews of VCL styles. This is going to make it much easier to take advantage of styles within your applications and customise them on a per-control basis. Learn all about this new Delphi feature here.
Delphi 11 adds some fantastic additions to TRichEdit (and TDBRichEdit), including URL detection and spell checking. Learn how they work in this video.
In this video, we see how Delphi 11 adds a new VCL control, TDBLabeledEdit. This could make arranging data-aware input forms easier.
New to Delphi 11 are form designer guidelines for FireMonkey. They have some interesting differences from the VCL guidelines that you should probably be aware of - find all about them in this video.
Delphi 11 adds support for having binary constants in our code, and a new digit separator character - both are going to be super handy. Find out how they work in this video.
In this video, we see Delphi 11 adds 64bit zip support to your applications. We can now compress files bigger than 4GB, and have zip files larger than 4GB. Fantastic! Plus, there are some additional features that have also snuck in.
In this video, we look at the new default font in Delphi 11, Consolas. Additionally, the Delphi installer gives us a bunch of extra great coding fonts.