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Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By : Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti
Book Image

Delphi Cookbook - Third Edition

By: Daniele Spinetti, Daniele Teti

Overview of this book

Delphi is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) that supports rapid application development on different platforms, saving you the pain of wandering amid GUI widget details or having to tackle inter-platform incompatibilities. Delphi Cookbook begins with the basics of Delphi and gets you acquainted with JSON format strings, XSLT transformations, Unicode encodings, and various types of streams. You’ll then move on to more advanced topics such as developing higher-order functions and using enumerators and run-time type information (RTTI). As you make your way through the chapters, you’ll understand Delphi RTL functions, use FireMonkey in a VCL application, and cover topics such as multithreading, using aparallel programming library and deploying Delphi on a server. You’ll take a look at the new feature of WebBroker Apache modules, join the mobile revolution with FireMonkey, and learn to build data-driven mobile user interfaces using the FireDAC database access framework. This book will also show you how to integrate your apps with Internet of Things (IoT). By the end of the book, you will have become proficient in Delphi by exploring its different aspects such as building cross-platforms and mobile applications, designing server-side programs, and integrating these programs with IoT.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using master/details with LiveBindings

When you have a customer with his/her orders or an invoice with his/her items, you have a master/details (M/D) relationship. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the new LiveBindings technology to show an M/D relationship.

As explained in the Embarcadero wiki:

"LiveBindings is a data-binding feature supported by both the VCL and FireMonkey frameworks in RAD Studio. LiveBindings is an expression-based framework, which means it uses bindings expressions to bind objects to other objects or to dataset fields."

LiveBindings is a very nice technology and can be used in VCL applications as well, but its main targets are FireMonkey applications. Indeed, it is the only way to perform automatic data binding in the FireMonkey framework. If you don't know what LiveBindings is or what its strengths are, I suggest you stop here and...