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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)

Fast user interface prototyping

Live bindings are not limited to string properties. You can bind different simple and complex data types. One of the really cool components that you can use to quickly design a data-driven user interface is TPrototypeBindSource. This component can emulate a data table and generate test data for display. In this way, we can very quickly prototype graphical user interfaces.

Let's look at how we could use live bindings to quickly prototype the user interface of our To-Do List app. Reopen the ToDoList project in the IDE, right-click on the Project Manager, and select the option to add a new project to the project group. Create a separate folder for the new project and save the main form's unit as uFormToDoTest, the project as ToDoTest, and the whole project group as ToDoGrp. Change the Name property, the main form of the new project, to FormToDoTest...