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Expert Delphi

By : Paweł Głowacki
Book Image

Expert Delphi

By: Paweł Głowacki

Overview of this book

Delphi is the most powerful Object Pascal IDE and component library for cross-platform native app development. It enables building natively compiled, blazingly fast apps for all major platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac, and Linux. If you want to build server-side applications, create web services, and have clear GUIs for your project, then this book is for you. The book begins with a basic primer on Delphi helping you get accustomed to the IDE and the Object Pascal language and will then quickly move on to advanced-level concepts. Through this book, we’ll help you understand the architecture of applications and will teach you the important concepts of the FireMonkey library, show you how to build server-side services, and enable you to interact with the Internet of Things. Towards the end, you will learn to integrate your app with various web services and deploy them. By the end of the book, you will be able to build powerful, cross-platform, native apps for iOS and Android with a single code base.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Embedding styles as resources

Let's have a look at the process of embedding custom styles into an app as a resource. Using custom resources is not limited to embedding. We can embed arbitrary files, for example, video, audio, custom graphics, data, or anything.

Remove the data module with style book components, because now we are going to load a custom style differently. In order to verify that the custom is loaded globally for all forms, we are going to add an additional form to the StyleTest app. Add an empty FireMonkey HD form to the project. Save the form's unit as uFormExtra and change the Name property of the new form to FormExtra. Add the new form to the uses clause of the main form. In the OnClick event of the menu speedbutton of the main form, add one line of code to display the new form.

The code will display FormExtra when the end user clicks on the button...